Description
RELI 343. RELIGION AND HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA. Beginning in the British North American colonies in the seventeenth century and continuing to the outbreak of the American War of Independence, this course explores the changing nature and role of religion in American public life by the different colonial settlers. In this, the course examines efforts by Colonial Americans to shape culture and society in accordance with their understanding of the Gospel as well as ways in which cultural, social, political, and economic issues of the time in turn helped shape their divergent responses to public issues. Alternate years, semester course, three hours.