Religious Lives in America is a graduate seminar that explores themes in American history through examining the genre of religious biography. Listening to voices from various eras, regions, and identities, students will analyze the craft of religious biography, its promises and perils. We will interrogate how culture, race, gender, class, sexuality, place, and relationship impact individuals and both expand and constrain traditional religious or institutional narratives. What makes a biography of a person religious? Who decides? Whose stories are told? By whom? What is included or left out? How do individual lives intersect with broader narratives of American religion(s)?
Ansley QuirosAuthor
University of North AmericaInstitution
Community College, Public College or University, Private College or University Institution Type
Syllabus Resource Type
Intro, Undergraduate Course Class Type
2022 Date Published
Religious Studies, History Discipline
Judaism, Protestant Religous Tradition
Family/Children/Reproduction, Gender/Women/ Sexuality, Pluralism/Secularism/Culture Wars, Race/Ethnicity Topics