RLS 265 Religion & Race in America

This course will focus on the academic study of religion and how race and ethnicity, culture and nationality are influences by religion and how religions are influenced by race and ethnicity, culture and nationality. We will use contact, critical race theory, and collaboration as theoretical tools in order to uncover the (sometimes insidious) relationships between personal prejudice and institutional racism, racial identity and racial assignment, the 'empirical other' and the 'self.' Lastly, we will consider how patterns of racism and anti-Semitism have impacted religion in America from the founding up until the present day. Fulfills diversity requirement. (C4)

Credits

3