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Courses in American Religions in a Global Context

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The courses offered by faculty in the ARGC fall into four clusters: I. Overviews, II. Spirituality and the Supernatural, III. Religion and Politics, and IV. Race and Ethnicity. Undergraduates are encouraged to take at least one course in each cluster to gain an appreciation for the breadth and depth, and various approaches to, the subject. Graduate students are encouraged to take courses with Core Faculty in different disciplines.

Courses that the Core Faculty have taught in these clusters include:

I. Overviews

Exploring American Religious History (Lum) (Religst 91, CSRE 91)

Religions Around the Globe (Kieschnick/Pitkin) (Religst 1)

Introduction to African American Studies: Black Religion, Culture, and Experience to the Civil War (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (AfricaAm 104, AmStud 104A)

Defining the Moral Body: Sex, Race, and Gender in Religion (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (ReligSt 203/303)

Is Stanford a Religion? (Lum) (Religst 2)

Writing Religious History (Lum) (Religst 371)

Understanding Jews (Kelman) (AmStud 215 / Jewishstudies 215)

II. Spirituality/Supernatural

The Fourth R: Religion in American Schooling (Kelman) (Educ 117, Religst 117, Amst 117)

Belief (Luhrmann)

Anthropology of Religion (Luhrmann)

Knowing God: How People Learn Religion (Kelman) (Educ 231, Religst 231, Amstud 231)

God and the Supernatural (Luhrmann) (Anthro 26)

III. Religion & Politics

Religion and War in America (Lum) (Religst 105, CSRE 105, History 154D, History 354D)

Defining the Moral Body: Sex, Race, and Gender in Religion (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (ReligSt 203/303)

Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (Martin) (ReligSt 141, CSRE 141R, AmStud 141X, History 151M, PoliSci 126)

Women of the Movement (Martin) (ReligSt 208/308, AmStud 208, FemGen 208/308, Hist 268/368)

Christianity in 21st-Century America (Pitkin) (Religst 117)

Church, State, and Schools in America (Kelman) (Educ 293, Religst 293, Amstud 293)

The United States in the Twentieth Century (Burns) (History 50C, History 150C)

Back to the Future: Art, Media, and Politics in the 1980s (Burns) (History 258A/358A, AmStud 128B, Comm 128/228/328)

IV. Race & Ethnicity

Constructing Race and Religion in America (Lum) (Religst 246/346, History 256G/356G, CSRE246, AmStud 246)

Introduction to African American Studies: Black Religion, Culture, and Experience to the Civil War (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (AfricaAm 104, AmStud 104A)

Black Religion in America (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (ReligSt 241/341, AmStud 241, AfricaAm 242)

The Religions and Cultures of Enslaved People in America (Wells-Oghoghomeh) (ReligSt 263/363, AmStud 263)

Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (Martin) (ReligSt 141, CSRE 141R, AmStud 141X, History 151M, PoliSci 126)

Women of the Movement (Martin) (ReligSt 208/308, AmStud 208, FemGen 208/308, Hist 268/368)

Asian Religions in America; Asian American Religions (Lum) (ReligSt 281/381, AmStud 281, AsnAmst 281)