HIS 580SEM - Radical Religion in the Anglo-Atlantic World

This course examines individuals and groups at the margins of religious practice in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting with the Protestant Reformation and continuing through the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century, religion became an even more highly charged arena of contestation than it had been before. Out of this religious ferment, some people embraced beliefs considered problematic or bizarre by the orthodox mainstream. This course seeks to understand these individuals on their own terms, as well as to understand the reactions–alternately dismissive, mocking, and violent–against them.

Credits: 3