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Religion and Nationalism in the United States: A History
RELIGION 120

Jointly Offered with: Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2327

Course Information

Description

Many Americans have imagined the United States as having a religious identity as a "city on a hill," a "redeemer nation," or "the new Israel." We will ask several questions in this course: How and why have Americans conceived of the nation in sacred terms? How have religious images of the nation developed and changed over time? Does the United States have a "civil religion"? What is white Christian nationalism, and what are its historic roots? Readings will cover the period from the American Revolution to the present. 

Offered jointly with Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2327.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Course Component Lecture
Subject Religion
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students