Schedule
Week 1
Week 2
Labor Day: No Class
Week 3
Reading
Tweed, Thomas. American Encounter with Buddhism 1844-1912: Victorian Culture & the Limits of Dissent. University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Week 4
Reading
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement and the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Harvard UP, 2006.
Writing
Week 5
Reading
Winston, Diane. Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. Harvard UP, 2000.
Writing
Week 6
Reading
Wacker, Grant. Heaven Below: Early Pentacostals and American Culture. Harvard UP, 2003.
Week 7
Columbus Day: Class meets on Tuesday
Reading
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture. Oxford UP, 2006.
Writing
Week 8
Reading
Watts, Jill. God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story. University of California, 1995.
Writing
Week 9
Reading
Orsi, Robert. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 . Yale UP, 2002.
Week 10
Week 11
Reading
McDannell, Colleen. Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America . Yale UP, 1998.
Week 12
Reading
McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Week 13
Reading
Moore, Deborah Dash. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Belknap, 2006.
Writing
Week 14
Reading
Oppenheimer, Mark. Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture . Yale UP, 2003.
Writing
Week 15
Reading
Allitt, Patrick. Religion in America since 1945: A History. Columbia UP, 2004.