Week 1: Introduction and the Religious Landscape

Tuesday, August 26

• Syllabus

Thursday, August 28

• Wald, Kenneth and Allison Calhoun-Brown. 2011. “Religion in the American Context” In Religion and Politics in the United States 6th Edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. (Chapter 2).

• Smith, Gregory A., Alan Cooperman, Becka A. Alper, Besheer Mohamed, Chip Rotolo, Patricia Tevington, Justin Nortey, et al. 2025. “Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off.” Pew Research Center.

  • This report has a lot of different parts. Make sure to skim through all of them and take note of anything that catches your attention.

Deadline

Short reflection due Friday, August 29, at 11:59pm on Canvas