January 30: Introductions, expectations
Backgrounds & Beginnings
February 1: “Backgrounds and Beginnings”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 1
February 6: “England and America”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 2
Pivot Seminar (Religious Demographics in the Colonies)
February 8: Pivot Seminar (The “First” Great Awakening)
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 3
PRIMARY document: Selected Sermons of George Whitefield
February 13: “The Early Republic”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 4 & chapter 5
February 15: Pivot Seminar (The Disestablishment of Christianity)
PRIMARY document: Va. Statute for Religious Freedom
February 20: “Protestant Expansion and Consolidation”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 6
February 22: Pivot Seminar (The “Second” Great Awakening)
PRIMARY document: Finney, “What a Revival of Religion Is“
February 27: “The Broadening of Denominational Life”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 7
DUE (from student leading Feb. 29 seminar): Primary document/s
February 29: Pivot Seminar (The “Black Church”)
Primary document: Allen, Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of… (excerpt)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query
The Years of Midpassage, 1865-1918
March 5: “Visions of Religious Community”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 8
DUE (from students leading March 7 seminars): Primary document/s
March 7: Pivot Seminar (Anti-Catholicism)
Primary document: Monk, The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (excerpt)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query/ies
March 12: “Post Civil-War America” / Pivot Seminar (The Rise of Sectarianism)
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 9 and chapter 10
Primary document:
DUE (from students leading March 14 seminars): Primary document/s
March 14: Pivot Seminar (Americanism / Catholic Accommodations)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query/ies
March 19: NO CLASS (Spring Break)
March 21: NO CLASS (Spring Break)
Modern America
March 26: “The New Intellectual Climate”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 11
DUE (from student leading March 28 seminar): Primary document/s
March 28: Pivot Seminar (The Fundamentalists)
Primary document: Beach, “Decadence of Darwinism” (The Fundamentals, vol. 8)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query
April 2: “New Frontiers for the Churches”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 12
DUE (from student leading April 4 seminar): Primary document/s
April 4: Pivot Seminar (Changing Roles of Women)
Primary document: Newcomb, Newcomb’s Young Lady’s Guide…
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query
April 9: “The Shifting Religious Configurations”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 13
DUE (from students leading April 11 seminars): Primary document/s
April 11: Pivot Seminar (African American Religious Diversity / Non-Protestant Diversity)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query/ies
April 16: “Protestantism’s Uneasy Journey to the Comfortable Fifties”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 14
DUE (from students leading April 18 seminars): Primary document/s
Primary Documents: “Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith”
“Fear of Catholic President Explained by a Protestant,” New York Times
April 18: Pivot Seminar (“Malcolm & Martin” / Religious Revivalism)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query/ies
Additional reading: “Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Only Met Once” (Barbara Maranzani, Biography)
April 23: NO CLASS (Pesah)
April 25: “The Maturing of Roman Catholicism”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 15
DUE: Paper draft
April 30: “Old / New Centers”
READ: CORRIGAN / HUDSON, chapter 16
DUE (from students leading March 7 seminars): Primary document/s
May 2: Pivot Seminar (New Religious Movements /The “Christian Right”)
DUE (before class): Pre-seminar query/ies
May 7: Conclusions
May 14: DUE: Final Paper
