|
|
|
|
|
| [back to main course list] REL 140: RELIGION RACE & DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA (UP Group IV.C)Religion has been a major factor in the lives of groups that have experienced racism and discrimination in America. Sometimes religion has served as a tool of racism, but it has also been a means by which oppressed groups have adapted to their conditions and struggled to overcome them. This course will explore the various roles religion has played in the lives of Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans and others as they have struggled to work out their identities in American society. Through reading, discussion, and documentary films, we will work to achieve insight into the culture of each group, a grasp of the wider dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in American life, and an appreciation of the way the religious creativity of these groups has helped to shape the ideal of America as a multicultural community. |
