Andrews University SDA Theological Seminary

CHIS660 HISTORY OF RELIGION IN AMERICA

Summer Semester, 2006 - July 11 - Aug 4

COURSE SYLLABUS/OUTLINE

Place:	S340	Instructor:	Dr. Trevor O'Reggio

Time:	7:30 - 9:20, M-R	Telephone:	471-3572(O); 473-2319(H)

Credit:	2-3 hours	Email:	toreggio@andrews.edu

Office:	N208

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to give the student a broad exposure to the rich diversity of the religious experience in the United Sates. Students will be able to appreciate the impact religion has had on the history and culture of the nation and how various faith traditions have been shaped, in turn, by their encounter with America.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.	To provide an overall view of the development of various religious traditions in American history.

2.	To increase the knowledge of students on how race and culture has shaped the religious landscape of American life.

3.	To examine the historical context out of which several unique "American" religious traditions have emerged, especially as it relates to the rise of Adventism.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1.	The entire textbook should be read, one other book and the source book. All four videos on reserve should be viewed.

2.	FIVE quizzes, worth 50 points, will be given based on the reading (see outine/readings)

3.	Final exam or paper of 12-15 pages.

4.	A church visit.

5.	Critique of Slave Religion, 3-4 pages including main ideas and your insights.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada.

Raboteau, Alert. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South.

Recommended Reading

Hudson, Winthrop and John Corrigan. Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life.

Gaustad, Edwin S. A Religious History of America. Rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.

RESERVE VIDEOS

Videos: (James White Library - Multimedia Center)

The Soul of a Nation: Religion in America

Religious Fundamentalism

For God and Country

Keeping the Faith

EVALUATION

Reflection/Critique	50 points

Final	100 points

Reading/video	50 points

Church visit	50 points

Five quizzes	50 points

TOTAL POINTS	300 points

GRADING

A	=	95-100	B	=	80-84	C	=	65-69

A-	=	90-94	B-	=	75-79	C-	=	64-60

B+	=	85-89	C+	=	70-74	D	=	45-59

IMPORTANT DATES

Reflection/critique	Monday, July 17

Reading/Video Reaction	Tuesday, August 1

Church visit report	Monday, July 31

Final exam	Thursday, August 3, 7:30 - 9:20 a.m.

SUCCESS NUGGETS

1.	Be on time.

2.	Come to class prepared; read the assigned chapter.

3.	Pay attention in the classroom and take good notes.

4.	Be alert during lectures, asking questions for understanding and clarification.

5.	Turn in all assigned work on due dates, NO excuses.

6.	Come to class with a positive attitude and a teachable spirit.

7.	Avoid absences like the plague.

8.	If you are having difficulties in class, please contact me.

COURSE PROCEDURES

ABSOLUTELY no food or drink is allowed in the classroom.

There are NO make up quizzes.

ALL assignments are expected to be turned in ON TIME. Only in true emergency cases will exceptions be made.

Please note in the calendar the withdraw and add/drop dates for classes.

ACADEMIC HONESTY

There will be zero tolerance for academic cheating. Anyone caught cheating will forfeit the grade for that quiz, paper, or exam. The use of another persons idea(s) or words should be credited to that person. Failure to do this is academic cheating or termed plagiarism.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS

"If you qualify for accommodations under the American Disabilities Act, please see the instructor as soon as possible for referral and assistance in arranging such accommodations."

QUOTATION

"However dogs may bark at me and pigs grunt, I shall always imitate the writings of the ancients: These shall be my study, now while my strength lasts, shall the sun find me idle. We are like dwarfs on the shoulder of giants, by whose grace we see farther than they. Our study of the works of the ancients enables us to give fresh life to other fine ideas and reserve them from times' oblivion and man's neglect."

COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS

The following topics will be covered over the semester:

I.	Pre-European America

Native America Society & Religion

European and Native American Encounter

II.	Introduction and chapter 1	Source book readings:

Old Traditions in New Contexts	Reasons for Removal: The Puritans

The Great Migration	The Mayflower Compact

III.	Chapters 2-6

Puritanism in America	Rhode Island & Baptists; Ann Hutchinson & Mary Dyers; Quakers

The Great Awakening	George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards

Religion and Revolution	Deism

IV.	Chapters 7 and 9

Revivalism and Benevolence	Revivalism: C. G. Finney/Methodism-Black

Resurgent Church Traditions

V.	Chapters 8, 12, 13

Radical Tendencies	Joseph recounts first vision/Spiritualism

The Religion of the Slave	Daniel Payne/Sojourner Truth/White Abolitionists/F. Douglas

The Religion of the Lost	Samuel Howe/Holding of Slave not Sin/Emancipation Celebrated

VI.	Chapter 11

The Challenge of the Gilded Age	Academy

Judaism in America	Guiding Principles of Reform/Judaism

VII.	Chapters 8, 11, 13

Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century

The Christocentric Liberal	Theological Reflection

The Social Gospel	Walter Rauschenbusch—Redeeming the Land/Klansman Americanism

VIII.	Chapter 14

The Fundamentalist Controversy

Neo-Orthodoxy	Neo-Orthodoxy: Richard Niebhur/Paul Tillich

IX.	Chapter 19

The Church in Decline	The Faith of Modernism

Martin Luther King, Jr.	Civil Rights and the Churches

A Black Theology of Liberation

X.	Chapters 19, 20

Feminist Theology	Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, 509.

The Religious Right: The Moral

Majority and the Christian Coalition	Dominion Theology

The Future Direction of American

Religious Life	Jerry Falwell/Listen America, 443.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Albanese, Catherine L. America, Religions and Religion. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1981.

Bowden, Henry Warner. Church History in an Age of Uncertainty: historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1906-1990. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

________. "The Historiography of American Religion." EARE 1:13-16.

________. Dictionary of American Religious Biography. 2nd, rev. and enl. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Burr, Nelson Rollin. Religion in American Life. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971.

Butler, Jon, and Harry S. Stout. Religion in American History: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Gaustad, Edwin S. A Religious History of America. New rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.

________. A Documentary History of Religion in America. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Gaustad, Edwin S., Philip L. Barlow, and Richard W. Dishno. New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Handy, Robert T. A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Hudson, Winthrop Still. Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life. 4th ed. New York: Collier Macmillan, 1987.

Lippy, Charles H., and Peter W. Williams. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements. New York: Scribner, 1988.

Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. 1st ed. Boston: Little Brown, 1984.

Marty, Martin E., Jay P. Dolan, and James P. Wind. New Dimensions in American Religious History: Essays in Honor of Martin E. Marty. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1993.

Melton, J. Gordon. The Encyclopedia of American Religions. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1989.

Newman, William M., and Peter L. Halvorson. Atlas of American Religion: The Denominational Era, 1776-1990. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2000.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Smith, H. Shelton. American Christianity: an Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents. 2 vols. New York: Scribner, 1960.

Stout, Harry S., and D. G. Hart. New Directions in American Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Turley, David. American Religion: Literary Sources & Documents. 3 vols. The Banks, Mountfield, U.K.: Helm Information, 1998.

Tweed, Thomas A. Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.

Williams, Peter W. Perspectives on American Religion and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.

Young, Arthur P., E. Jens Holley, and Annette Blum. Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies ; No. 24. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

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