TRS 593CMR The Challenge of Religious Diversity in American Culture
This is a thematic and interdisciplinary course that examines religious diversity in the American context. Select topics include the nature of diversity and conformity tensions, inter and intra-faith Protestant-Catholic-Jewish conflict, pluralism in the context of civil religion and American exceptionalism, facing new religious movements, the De-Europeanization of American Christianity, Islam and the new immigration, interfaith marriage, and contemporary social and behavioral science research on religious pluralism and diversity.