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HIST249
Christianity in World History
HIST249 SP
Crosslistings: RELI289
Photo Caption and Credits
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 50 39 11
Christianity is now the religion of 1.6 billion people,
stronger in much of the Third World than in its long-time
"homeland" of Europe. This course investigates (1) the ways
in which Christianity shaped, and was shaped, by contact
with different world cultures and (2) the ways that the
globalization of Christianity interacted with other global
phenomena like imperialism, nationalism, and modernization.
After a brief look at the spread of Christianity in Late
European Antiquity, the course will concentrate on three
main subjects: (1) nationalism, modernization and the birth
of missions in the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic
Counter-Reformation; (2) Evangelical Protestantism among
white Americans and African-Americans; and (3) Christian
missions, imperialism, and the birth of African Christianity
in Southern Africa. Students interested in Christianity in
other parts of the world, or in other branches of
Christianity, will be encouraged to write papers on the area
of their interest.
MAJOR READINGS
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
McManners, THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Sanneh, TRANSLATING THE MESSAGE
Axtell, THE INVASION WITHIN
Raboteau, SLAVE RELIGION
Epstein, THE POLITICS OF DOMESTICITY: WOMEN, EVANGELISM AND
TEMPERANCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Marsden, UNDERSTANDING FUNDAMENTALISM AND EVANGELICALISM
Chidester, RELIGIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Regular class attendance and
participation. Four papers. No examinations.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
No extensions. No
incompletes.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting
or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the
first class, they will be dropped from the class list.
NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form
to the Registrar's Office.
Students wishing to put their names on the course waiting
list should drop a note to the professor; they should NOT
use e-mail or voicemail.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Elphick, R
- Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
Front cover of the LINDAU GOSPELS, circa 870.
Reference:
Cole, Bruce and Adelheid Gealt. ART OF THE WESTERN
WORLD: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO
POST-MODERNISM, New York: Summit Books, 1989
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