cms@dragon (04/21/91)
Per request, here is a list of the primary texts I studied in a course
at Georgia State called "American Religious Thought." My instructor
unthoughtfully did not include a table of contents, therefore, I will
have to run through the whole AlphaGraphics text, reprinting the
titles and authors. A bit of trouble, but I hope you find it
interesting. We began with a few pre-American texts that Dr. Prothero
felt was essential to understanding American religious roots.
Interlude and Update: I have found the course syllabus! I will
simply run through that instead.
(NOTE: We did not, in all cases, read the entire text; often, we read
only the essential portions.)
Georgia State University Professors' Publishing Plan
Philosoophy 420/620
American Religious Thought
Dr. Stephen Prothero
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Author Title
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EUROPEAN INFLUENCES
Thomas More Utopia
Martin Luther Address to the German Nobility
Francis Bacon The New Atlantis
COLONIAL PERIOD (Native Americans and the Utopian Quest for a "New"
World in "New" England)
Alexander Whitaker
Good Newes from Virginia
John Winthrop A Modell of Christian Charity
Cotton Mather Magnalia Christi Americana
John Winthrop Journal
_Some Correspondence_
William Penn letter (1681)
Mary Rowlandson The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY
Chief Powhantan Speech (reported by John Smith) 1609
Chief Logan Speech (on white man's atrocities) 1774
Chief Pachgantschilias
Speech (recorded by a Moravian missionary) 1787
Chief Tecumseh Speech (chief of Shawnees) 1810
Chief Sharitarish
Speech to President James Monroe and John C. Calhoun,
Secretary of war, in Washington, D.C. 4 Feb. 1822
Chief Cobb Speech (delivered to an Indian agent) 1843
PURITANS
Anne Hutchison and the Antinomian Controversy
John Davenport The Covenant of God's Free Grace 1645
John Winthrop Journal 1636-37 "That American Jezebel"
QUAKER PROTESTATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS
William Penn Primitive Christianity Revived 1696
William Penn A Persuasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters in
Prudence and Conscience 1686
The Trial of Margaret Brewster (this is a record of the trial) 1677
AWAKENING AND ENLIGHTENMENT
THE GREAT AWAKENING
Gilbert Tennent The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry 1742
Charles Chauncey Ministers Exhorted and Encouraged 1744
Jonathan Edwards A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
1746
THE CULT OF REASON VS. THE CULT OF REVELATION
Benjamin Franklin Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
Thomas Paine Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the
Christian Religion 1804
Thomas Jefferson letters
Timothy Dwight A Discourse, on Some Events of the Last
Century 1801
Midterm (heh)
REVIVALISM, REFORM, and ROMANTIC RELIGION
THE UNITARIAN-TRANSCENDENTALIST DEBATE
William Ellery Channing Unitarian Christianity 1830
Ralph Waldo Emerson Divinity School Address 1838
Nature 1836
CONVERSION OR CHARACTER?: THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING AND ITS
DESPISERS
Charles Finney Lectures on Revivals of Religion 1835
John Nevin The Anxious Bench 1844
William Ellery Channing Self-Culture 1844
Manual of Self Education 1842
SLAVE AND SLAVEHOLDER RELIGION
Jarena Lee The Life and Religious Experience of
Jarena Lee 1836
Frederick Douglass Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity
of Christ 1845
Henry Bibb Narrative of the Life and Adventures of
Henry Bibb 1849
THE BIBLICAL DEBATE OVER SLAVERY
Richard Furman Exposition of the Views of the Baptists 1823
James Thornwell The Christian Doctrine of Slavery 1850
David Walker Walker's Appeal 1829
MORMONISM: A NEW AMERICAN RELIGION
Selected Documents on Mormonism
Joseph Smith Recounts his First Vision 1820
Printing of the Book of Mormon in 1830
Joseph Smith's Revelation on Plural Marriage 1843
Joseph Smith's Martyrdom, June 27, 1844
Brigham Young Assumes Leadership, 1844
Exodus Announced, October 8, 1845
Requirements for the Journey, 1845
Church Authorities Appeal to Iowa Governor, February 28, 1846
ANTI-MORMONISM IN ILLINOIS
Junious Secundus Letter to "The Warsaw Signal (1845)
Manuscript letter
SPIRITUALISM AND THEOSOPHY
Margaret Fox Certificate of Mrs. Margaret Fox, Wife of
John D. Fox, the Present Occupant of the
House 1848
Horace Greeley Recollections 1868
H. P. Blavatsky The Key to Theosophy 1889
Henry Olcott Spiritualism and Theosophy 1880
MODERNISM AND FUNDAMENTALISMS
THE SOCIAL GOSPEL AND THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH
Russel H. Conwell Acres of Diamonds 1890
Walter Rauschenbusch A Theology for the Social Gospel 1917
Pope Leo XIII Rerum novarum 1891
AMERICAN JUDAISM: REFORM, CONSERVATIVE, AND ORTHODOX
Reform Platforms Pittsburgh Platform 1885
Columbus Platform 1937
Solomon Schecter Seminary Addresses 1915
Nahum Sarna Understanding Genesis 1966
Theodor Herzl The Jewish State 1896
Arthur Hertzberg Being Jewish in American 1979
Nathan Glazer Jewish Loyalties 1981
AMERICANIST AND MODERNIST CONTROVERSIES IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Samuel Morse Imminent Dangers 1835
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk 1836
John Ireland "Preface" to Walter Elliot,
_The Life of Father Hecker_ 1891
John J. McQuaid letter letter
Pope Pius X Pascendi Dominici Gregis 1907
Pope Leo XIII Testem benevolentiae 1899
PROTESTANT MODERNISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM
Harry Emerson Fosdick Shall the Fundamentalists Win? 1922
Charles Gresham Machen Christianity and Liberalism 1923
Shailer Mathews The Faith of Modernism 1924
THE WORLD'S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS AND THE MISSIONARY DEBATE
John R. Mott The Evangelization of the World in This
Generation 1900
R. E. Speer The New Opportunity of the Church 1919
E. Stanley Jones Christ of the Indian Road
John H. Barrows selections
The World's Parliament of Religions 1893
W. E. Hocking Re-thinking Missions: A Layman's Inquiry 1932
FINAL EXAM
Additionally, we read a book called "Religion and American Culture"
(1990) by George M. Marsden.
Well, that's the syllabus. I hope you found it helpful. Oh, yes, if
you really want the _whole_ syllabus, here is a beginning paragraph:
"This course is a historical survey of American religious thought from
the colonial period to the dawn of the twentieth century. In an
effort to underscore the pluralistic and conflictual nature of
American religious history, we will focus on a series of religious
controversies. We will read almost exclusively from primary sources.
Students are expected to have read the assignments _before_ the
relevant lectures, since we will be discussing them in class."
Overall, it was an extremely enjoyable course and I wouldn't have
missed it for the world.
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Sincerely,
Cindy Smith
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