This graduate course, which meets with sections from the Department
of History (H650) and the American Studies Program (G620) will focus
on the diverse ways in which religious life and thought developed in
the different geographical regions first constituting the European
colonies and then eventually the United States. Drawing on an
increasingly focused body of scholarship dealing with these regions
(New England, Mid-Atlantic region, the South, the Tran Appalachian
region, French Canada, and Spanish regions in North America),
participants in this course will examine the regionalization of
traditions and denominations, the interaction of religion with
social and political patterns, and the issues and values that led to
conflict among the different regions. This course will make use of
primary materials as well as periodical literature in addition to
select texts for purchase. Students enrolled for the colloquium
(R635/H650/G620) will prepare a major bibliographical essay drawing
on both primary and secondary published materials. Students enrolled
for the seminar (735) will prepare a research paper for a
professional journal in their own field of specialization. Mutual
critiquing of both kinds of assignments will form the conclusion of
the course.  The following volumes will form a portion of the
required reading. Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven;
Randall H. Balmer, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Relition and
English Culture in the Middle Colonies; Graham Russell Hodges, Root
and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-
1863; Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of
the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization; Cedric B.
Cowing, The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New
England; Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and
Revivals in Rochester, New York 1815-1837; Christine L. Heyrman,
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt.