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2020-2021 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HST 303 - Hist Religion in Amer II

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: Course not open to Freshmen
A survey of the American religious experience from the Civil War to the present, focusing on the rise of Black churches, the impact of immigration and urban industrialism, the Ghost Dance religions, the Social Gospel, the Americanization of the Catholic Church, the Fundamentalist controversy, the impact of the Depression, Neo-Orthodoxy, the public religion of the Cold War, Pan-Indianism, twentieth century Judaism, the flowering of the cults and the emergence of the electronic churches.
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