Week 1: Introduction and the Religious Landscape

During the first week we will go over the syllabus, which you can check out on the homepage. We will also talk about how religious Americans are today and theories of why Americans continue to be so religious when compared to other industrialized nations (think Europe, for example).

Wednesday, August 28

• Syllabus
• Wald, Kenneth and Allison Calhoun-Brown. 2018. “Religion in the American Context” In Religion and Politics in the United States 6th Edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. (Chapter 2).