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May 09, 2024
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RLST 105 HM - Religion American Culture: Toleration
CrsNo RLST105 HM
Instructor(s): E. Dyson
This introductory-level course explores American religious history from pre-colonial indigenous civilizations through the present, focusing on three related issues – diversity, toleration and pluralism. We will consider how religions have shaped or been shaped by encounters between immigrants, citizens, indigenous peoples, tourists, and occasionally, government agents. Putting these encounters in historical context, we will look closely at how groups and individuals have claimed territory, negotiated meaning, understood each other and created institutions as they met one another in the American landscape. At these sites of contact, we will also attend carefully to questions of power, translation and the changing definitions of religion itself.
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