Christianity and American Politics

This course examines the relationship between formations of Christianity in the United States and formations of American nationalism. What about the United States promotes the growth of religious communities? How have expressions, and institutions, of American religion helped construct and reimagine what it means to be American?

The course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences’ intensive writing requirement and as such involves 5,000 words of original work, with required revisions. The goal for us is to improve our writing skills as we analyze American religious history. We will pay particular attention to the conventions of writing in history and learn how to locate, analyze, utilize, quote, and document historical sources.

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