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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

REL 295-01 - Special Topic: Religions, Race, and American Evangelicalism

4 credits (Fall)
This course acquaints students with a coherent understanding of the worldview and zeitgeist of evangelical Christianity in America, with specific attention to how racial constructs and political motivations function in its contemporary iterations. Course modules will include: historical readings on the rise of evangelicalism (within the context of the 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings), religion and authoritarianism, the evangelical family and gender, religio-racial violence, and the apocalyptic themes lodged within the QAnon conspiracy.

Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Hills