10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR
Section Information for Spring 2017
This course is organized around a comparative examination of the many forms of global Christianity over the past two thousand years. Chronologically, it begins with the ancient Jewish, Greek, and Roman contexts of early Christianity and continues through the present. Students will become familiar with many kinds of Christianity across the globe, including Asian, African, Latin American, European, and North American Christianities. In each geographic and chronological context, students will explore several themes: use of sacred texts and the experiences of a typical church service, the relationship between Christianity and politics, and cultural aspects such marriage and sexuality. Students will also consider Christianity as a series of global systems organized around missions, migration, trade, and warfare. The textbook for the course is Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, and the assignments will include several short papers to be written out of class as well as a mid-term and final exam.
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Credits: 3-6
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