Class Id: 9867
Days: Th
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: FRIST
Room: 234
Course Id: 4367
Departments and Numbers: REL 359
Area: HA
Title: Religion and Immigration to the United States
Description: Covering a variety of texts dealing with religion and immigration, one of the major themes of American history, this seminar focuses on immigration as a socio-historical factor in the formation of American civic and political culture. Themes will include immigration as religious experience; the transfer and transformation of religious practice from "old" world to "new"; religion as a "map of meaning" for immigrant communities; and religious institutions as social agencies and facilitators of change.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Albert J. Raboteau
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