Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

SOCI 320 - RACE & RELIGIOUS FAITH

Long Title: RACE AND RELIGIOUS FAITH
Department: Sociology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Class examines race, ethnicity, religion, and civic society. Focusing on American congregational communities (church, temple, or mosque) in considering migration, citizenship, identity, and transnationalism on the historic transformations of non-native, ethnic churches and the Black Church. Discussions on assimilation (and its failure) will include the rare phenomena of multi-ethnic/racial congregations. Cross-list: RELI 327.