The Teaching Company: American Religious History [Audio Lectures]mp3 | 24 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 64 kbps | 324 Mb
Why does America, unlike virtually any other industrial nation, continue to show so much religious vitality? Why are the varieties of religion found here so numerous and diverse? The best way to look for explanations of this truly remarkable vitality and diversity, argues Professor Allitt, is to study the nation’s religious history. You will examine religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on life "beyond the pews." This will mean investigating the subtle but important links that have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans. To give just one notable and recent example: Professor Allitt explains how Martin Luther King, Jr., mixed appeals from the Bible and the American "civil religion" to press the case for civil rights.Professor Allitt even reflects on American religion as a sensory experience—a phenomenon whose deep spiritual and social meanings can in part be seen in the design of churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples; heard in the sacred sounds of hymns, prayers, and chants; smelled in Catholic or Buddhist incense; and even tasted. (Here you’ll ask why the casserole may be the most "Protestant" of all dishes!)
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Taught by: Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Course Lecture Titles
1. Major Features of American Religious History
2. The European Background
3. Natives and Newcomers
4. The Puritans
5. Colonial Religious Diversity
6. The Great Awakening
7. Religion and Revolution
8. The Second Great Awakening
9. Oneida and the Mormons
10. Catholicism
11. African-American Religion
12. The Civil War
13. Victorian Developments
14. Darwin and Other Dilemmas
15. Judaism in the 19th Century
16. Fundamentalism
17. War and Peace
18. Twentieth-Century Catholicism
19. The Affluent Society
20. The Civil Rights Movements
21. The Counterculture and Feminism
22. Asian Religions
23. Church and State
24. The Enduring Religious Sensibility
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