August 25: Course Introductions, expectations
READ (in class): Farnsley, “It’s Time We Think of Politics More Like Religion”
August 30, September 1-6: Socio-Historical Foundations
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 1; Declaration of Independence (1776); Northwest Ordinance (1787); Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Article XI (1797); Constitution of the Confederate States (1861)
September 8: Theoretical Approaches
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 2
September 13-20: Protestant Foundations
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 3; Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity” (1630); Beveridge, “March of the Flag” (1898)
September 22: TBA
September 27: NO CLASS (Rosh Hashanah)
September 29: The Changing Face of Public Religion
READ: BURGE (entire)
October 4-6: Catholic Foundations
READ: Kennedy, “Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association” (1960); Cuomo, “Religious Belief and Public Morality” (1984)
October 11-13: Non-Majoritarian Foundations
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 4; Romney, “Faith in America” (2007)
October 18: NO CLASS (Fall Break)
October 20-25: Ethno-Religiosity
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 5; King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963); Chavez, “The Mexican-American and the Church” (1968)
DUE (Oct. 25): Burge analysis paper
October 27 – November 1: Sex, Gender, & Religion
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 6
November 3: Religion & Voting
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 7
November 8: Election Day!
READ: READ: Bellah, “Civil Religion in America”; Marsh, “The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama”
DUE: Pre-Election Data Report
November 10: Organized Political Religious Groups
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 8
November 15: Religion & “Political Elites”
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 9
November 17: Religion & the Courts
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 11
November 22: “Church & State”
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 12
November 24: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
November 29: NO CLASS (Academic Symposium)
December 1: Conclusions
READ: HERTZKE, chapter 13
December 13: DUE: Final Paper
