RLST 4820 / 5820:
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Religion:

Cold War Culture and Religion.

This course examines the ways in which the cold war affected culture and religion in the United States. The course also looks at the post-cold war years and the contemporary situation, to see how political life, culture, and religion today have been influenced by the cold war era.

SYLLABUS, Spring 2003

READINGS:

Augelli and Murphy, Ideology and Common Sense ; Ideology and Foreign Policy

Hodgson, The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus

Martin Marty, "The Vital Center" (from Modern American Religion, vol. 3)

Martin Marty, "Civic Religion" (from Modern American Religion, vol. 3)

Stephen Whitfield, "Praying: God Bless America" (from Cold War Culture)

Encyclopedia Britannica, U.S. history, http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=121265

Harry Truman, The Truman Doctrine

Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Time to Break Silence"

Ronald Reagan, "The Evil Empire"

George W. Bush, Inaugural Address

Robert Bellah, "75 Years"

Ira Chernus, "The Word 'Peace' as a Weapon of (Cold) War," Peace Review, vol. 10, no. 4, December, 1998.

Ira Chernus, "Eisenhower: Faith and Fear in the Fifties" unpublished

Ira Chernus, "The War on Terrorism and Sin" unpublished

Ira Chernus, "Fighting Terror in the National Insecurity State" broadcast on Alternative Radio

 

SYLLABUS, Spring 2001