Shaping of America: History of American Religion

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In 1630, John Winthrop warned the Puritan community who was about to embark from the Arabella that the city they were going to found should be as a “city on a hill,” a beacon of godliness to the world. This course focuses on American religious life from Winthrop forward, looking at how religion has shaped American politics and society from the fifteenth century to the present.