RLST 236
Religion, Violence & America
Credit: 3 hours.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Western Compartv Cult course.Examination of the interactions among religion, violence, and American culture from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Using a wide range of primary and secondary texts, students will study the perspectives of the perpetrators and victims of religiously motivated and/or religiously justified violence, both in domestic and international affairs. Same as HIST 290.
Available spring 2009