3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions “How has religion affected America?” and “How has America affected religion?” Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant/Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religions, and Animism.