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CHST 655 - Formerly CHIST 255 - God, Sex, and the Making of American Families (3)
This course examines how religious ideas and practices - particularly forms of Christianity - have influenced both private and public understandings of sex and family in the United States. Themes include the regulation of sex practices within and outside of marriage; the conflation of monogamous marriage with virtue and republican ideology; the meanings of domesticity; domesticity's shadows, including slavery and polygamy; and same-sex love and the emergence of modern sexual identities and practices.
Prerequisite: CHST - Formerly CHIST+203 or equivalent.
CHST 762 - Formerly CHIST 262 - Topics in American Methodism (3)
An intensive study, based on original sources, of selected topics in the rise and development of American Methodism with a view toward defining the nature of the Methodist tradition.
Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration.
CHST 768 - Formerly CHIST 268 - Race and American Christianity (3)
An intensive consideration of the power of race in American Christian cultures, with an emphasis on recent critical theories of race.
Same as: CMFE - Formerly COMFE+268
CHST 671 - Formerly CHIST 271 - Evangelism and Social Justice: The Social Gospel Movement in Global Perspective: 1880-2000. (3)
This course explores the various modalities of the Social Gospel movement (Romantic, Scientific Modernist, Evangelical, Socialist, etc.) and its ramifying influence in contemporary theology and church life. Of particular focus is the continuing global outreach and manifestation of the "social gospel" approach to evangelism vis a vis "personal gospel" strategies.
CHST 676 - Formerly CHIST 276 - History of Evangelism in US America (3)
This seminar explores the historical patterns of "great awakenings" in North America and their cultural and social impact on USAmerican Christianity. Particular attention will be given to the fluctuating relationship between religion and reform. Various contemporary "movements of the Spirit" will be examined and explored (e.g. charismatic and "third wave" evangelism, media religion and cyberchurch, seeker-sensitive churches, alternative worship, "The New Reformation/Reformission"), and contemporary practices of evangelism will be investigated in terms of their impact on postmodern cultures and emerging churches.
CHST 779 - Formerly CHIST 279 - Revivalism and American Christianity (3)
This course will explore the ways in which scholars have understood the religious phenomenon known as "revival." Using both primary and secondary sources and moving from the early 18th century to the 20th, we will investigate this topic as a historiographical problem and look for new ways to talk about the elements of religious experience that have conventionally been marked as the framework for revivals.
CHST 682 - Formerly CHIST 282 - Is God On Our Side? Religion and U.S. Politics (3)
A study of the influences of religion, particularly Christian traditions, on political developments in the U.S from the early national period up to the present. Themes include the First Amendment and its litigation, Protestant projections of American manifest destiny, religious interventions in contested matters such as family life, the twentieth-century invention of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the continuing quest to create a Christian America.
Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: CHST - Formerly CHIST+203 or its equivalent
CHST 748 - Formerly CHIST 748 - Topics in Wesley Studies (3)
Various subjects relating to John and Charles Wesley, their theological formulations, and developments in the Wesleyan tradition.
Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration.