This course will explore the origins, development, and character of a variety of religious traditions and movements in North America and the United States, from pre-contact to the present. Although we will cover historical terrain of dates, places, and people, and consult primary documents and critical essays, our study will be organized around our reading of five “fictions,” works that rise out of and/or imaginatively describe religious movements.

This syllabus was created for the Young Scholars in American Religion program.

Anne Blue Wills
Author

Davidson College
Institution

Private College or University
Institution Type

Syllabus
Resource Type

Undergraduate Course
Class Type

2005
Date Published

Religious Studies, English
Discipline

Catholic, Hinduism, Indigenous, Other Christianities, Protestant
Religous Tradition

Gender/Women/ Sexuality, Immigration/Refugees, Popular Culture/Media/Music/Sports, Pluralism/Secularism/Culture Wars, Race/Ethnicity
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