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May 04, 2024
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Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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RLG 315 - American Religion and Social Reform (4 Cr.) (CBL 315)
This course will examine the historical and contemporary connections between social reform movements and the religious convictions and organizations that motivate them. Topics will include particular movements such as the Social Gospel Movement and its critics, anti-war movements, the Civil Rights Movement, the rise of the Religious Right and the Evangelical Left. In each of these historical cases, students will read primary documents from the movements to examine how religion is being used to justify certain action and decry certain realities in their current historical reality. Over the course of the semester, students will develop several parts of a research and service-learning project focusing on one Baltimore area organization that engages in religiously motivated social reform. Prerequisite: One course in religion and sophomore standing. Spring 2016 and alternate years thereafter. Duncan.
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