M1ANM425 - New Perspectives in Religious Studies - NCaron

The seminar is an introduction to the study of religion, spirituality and secularism in the United States. We will start with a discussion on definitions of religion, religious trends in the United States, and Church and State issues.

Course requirements: Student participation is an integral component for the success of this class. All course participants will be expected to arrive to class prepared to discuss the assigned readings.

Selective bibliography
- Azria, Régine et Danièle Hervieu-Léger, dir. Dictionnaire des faits religieux, PUF, 2010.”
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams, The Craft of Research, University of Chicago, 2008.
- Caron, Nathalie, « La religion, angle mort de la “civilisation américaine” ? », Transatlantica [En ligne], n° 1,
2023.
- Hunter, James Davison. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. Basic Books, 1991.
- Orsi, Robert, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study
Them, Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Smart, Ninian. Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World’s Beliefs, University of California Press,
1996.
- Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Princeton University Press, 2018, new
edition.