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Understanding and teaching religion in US history / edited by Karen J. Johnson and Jonathan M. Yeager.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
- The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Religion--History--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- United States--History--Religious aspects--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Religion is deeply embedded in American history, and one cannot understand American history's broad dynamics without accounting for it. Without detailing the history of religions, teachers cannot properly explain key themes in US survey courses, such as politics, social dynamics, immigration and colonization, gender, race, or class. From early Native American beliefs and practices, to European explorations of the New World, to the most recent presidential elections, religion has been a significant feature of the American story. In Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History, a diverse group of eminent historians and history teachers provide a practical tool for teachers looking to improve history instruction at the upper-level secondary and undergraduate level.This book offers a breadth of voices and approaches to teaching this crucial part of US history. Religion can be a delicate topic, especially in public education, and many students and teachers bring strongly held views and identities to their understanding of the past. The editors and contributors aim to help the reader see religion in fresh ways, to present sources and perspectives that may be unfamiliar, and to suggest practical interventions in the classroom that teachers can use immediately.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why religion matters in teaching US history
- Part one: Frameworks for teaching religion in American history. Teaching American religious history academically
- Adding religion to themes you already teach: religion as a component of diversity in America
- Talking about religion and race in the classroom
- African American religious experiences and narratives of American history
- Religion in women's history
- Native American religious experiences and cross-cultural engagement
- Teaching American Islam in the American history classroom
- Asian religious influences in American life
- Teaching American Judaism
- Part two: Teaching religion in American history in specific periods. Early Puritan colonies
- Teaching the First Great Awakening
- Was America founded as a Christian nation?
- Framing the constitutional principles governing religion in the early republic
- Religion and westward expansion
- The Bible and slavery before the Civil War
- What connections were there between imperialism and missionary activity?
- How did Christians respond to the industrial crisis of the Gilded Age?
- The prosperity gospel in US history and culture
- The effects of the fundamentalist modernist split
- How did the Depression change the relationship between church and state?
- Religion during World War II and the Cold War
- Religion and the civil rights movement.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780299346331
- 0299346331
- OCLC:
- 1430659961
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