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Course: |
HUM 118
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Title: | Religion in American Culture |
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Long Title: | Religion in American Culture |
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Course Description: | Investigates the various ways in which religion and American culture interact. It begins with the religion of Native Americans, which existed in a pre-modern society where religion went unchallenged as the preeminent organizing principle, to our post-modern era, where religion competes with a multiplicity of other belief systems in a complex societal matrix. This course pays close attention to the sundry ways in which religion and American culture interface. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | Added Description, Competencies and Topical Outline. |
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Origin Notes: | RRCC |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
A. Appraise the various socio-cultural forces involved in the construction of religion based on the standards discussed in class.
B. Discuss the extent to which religion has shaped the way America understands itself and relates to its neighbors.
C. Identify key historical movements and describe how they gave rise to particular religious expressions.
D. Summarize the general patterns of interaction between religion and an industrialized technologically sophisticated society.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The Antebellum Period
A. Native American culture and its belief systems prior to the arrival of Europeans
B. Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century thought on supernaturalism and mysticism
C. Religion and contemporary society
D. The convenance of Africans to America
1. Subjegation to institutional slavery
2. The power of religion as a coping mechanism
II. The Postbellum Period
A. Tumultous intellectual and cultural conditions during the latter half of the nineteenth century
B. Darwinian evolution
C. The rise of industrialization
D. The mass influx of European immigrants
E. The rise of religious fundamentalism
F. The rise of a plurarlistic, industrialized, secularized America
G. Conservative Protestantism
1. Political and moral consequences to culture
2. Historical and cultural factors
H. The emergence of fundamentalism
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