: Lectures feature biographical sketches of charismatic leaders, including Puritan Cotton Mather, Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, and revivalist Billy Sunday.
This course, taught by for The Great Courses (formerly The Teaching Company), provides a comprehensive narrative of the religious life in the United States from European contact to the late 20th century. It moves beyond formal theology to explore how religion has shaped American politics, culture, and social reform. Course Overview TTC - Prof. Patrick N Allitt - American Religious History
: How religion shaped—and was shaped by—the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr.’s biblical appeals), Cold War tensions, the Vietnam War , and feminism . Course Overview : How religion shaped—and was shaped
and the rise of the "nones" (religiously unaffiliated). Allitt The evolution of the U
American Religious History: Exploring the Narrative with Professor Patrick N. Allitt
The evolution of the U.S. from an overwhelmingly Protestant land to a mosaic of Catholic, Jewish, and Asian traditions.