Description
Connections Block: HIS 102 B023 - US History after 1865 and REL 241 B023
Students will explore religious trends in America from 1865 to present day. Topics include how religion has served to affirm (and/or suppress) regional, racial, sexual, and ethnic identitities in the 19th and 20th centuries, religion's role in continuous US ideologies of "manifest destiny," the social gospel movement's reaction to the Guilded Age, spiritual responses to the Great Depression, and the religioius motivation behind temperance movements. A special focus will be on Civil Rights-era spiritual themes, as well as the rise of the late-20th century Religious Right.