RELI/AFAM
4202 and RELI 6202:
SOUTHERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Professor:
Dr. Sandy Dwayne Martin
Department of Religion
Rooms 213, Peabody Hall - 542-5356 – martin@uga.edu
Office Hours: Monday, 10-12; Wednesday, 1-3
Fall 2006
I.
Course Description
This
course examines the development of religion in the American South from the
Colonial Period to the Present, placing particular emphasis upon those aspects
that render the South relatively distinct from the rest of the nation. Specific objectives include:
a) examining the manner in which Southern
religion differs from and compares with other expressions of American religion;
b) investigating the nature and impact
that evangelicalism has had upon Southern religion and culture;
c) investigating the relationship between
religion and other aspects of culture and politics in the South;
d) understanding the influence and impact
that Southern religion has had upon the rest of the nation;
e) examining the relationship between, and
comparing, white and African
American expressions of religion
in the South;
f) gaining an appreciation for the
diversity of Southern religious life;
g) examining the rise of fundamentalism in
the South;
h) discovering the nature and importance
of an academic approach to the study of religion.
II. Required
Texts/Readings
Samuel
S. Hill, Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Second Edition
Donald Mathews, Religion in the Old South
Albert
Raboteau, Slave Religion
III. Course
Requirements, Grading Formula, and Attendance Policy
A. Written Work
I.
Pre-final examinations/ Grad PaperÉ.............................................. 66 2/3% or 75%
RELI/AFAM 4202 will have 2-3 pre-final exams; RELI 6202 will have 2 exams
and a
paper, which will carry equal weight to the exams.
II. Final
Examination
...........................................................................
33 1/3% or 25%
The
final exam is cumulative, that is, covering the entire course.
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS ............................................................100%
NOTE: Good class participation and attendance may augment
semester averages in borderline cases.
Projected
and/or Tentative Exam/Paper Schedule:
Exam
#1 -----------Tuesday,
September 19, 2006
Exam
#2 ----------- Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Paper
(6202)...... Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Exam
#3 (?) ------- Thursday, November 16, 2006
Final
Examination: Thursday, December
14, 2006 , 8 a.m. -- 11 a.m.
B. Discussion Sessions
While
this is primarily a lecture course, it is the intention of the instructor to
have one class discussion session every 3 to 4 class periods. It is important that students keep
abreast of all readings so that they might gain the maximum benefit from the
discussion sessions as well as the course in general.
C. Attendance Policy and Grades; A Summary
1)
Attendance is required and classroom participation is strongly encouraged.
2) No leaving before class period is
officially dismissed.
3) Class roll will be taken during the
first 5 minutes of scheduled class
time for each class
period. Latecomers will be marked
ÒlateÓ; three lates equal one absence. Students arriving 10-15
minutes late
will be marked extra late; two extra
lates equal one absence. If the
student is not present during the first
15
minutes of each class session , that student will be marked absent for that
class period and is asked NOT to enter the
class during that
period. Unexcused absences beyond four
class periods will result in two (2) percentage points
being deducted for
each class period missed without excuse.
4) An excused absence is one that is
unavoidable for emergency or pressing reasons.
5) Attendance and participation in the
discussion sessions will be taken into consideration, especially when final
averages are
ÒborderlineÓ between
a lower and a higher grade.
For example, students with an 88.8 average might receive AÕs if their
attendance and participation have been strong.
The
Professor will use the following grading scale:
90-100 – A
87-89 -- B+
80-86 - B
77-79 -- C+
70-76 -- C
67-69 -- D+
60-66 -- D
Below 60 -- F
IV. Attendance
Policy and Grades: More Detailed
Discussion
Consistent
with the instructor's own educational philosophy and the rules and regulations
of the University of Georgia, attendance, regular and prompt, and
for the entire duration of the class sessions, is required.
Absences 0 -- Very Good Attendance
1-2 -- Good Attendance
3-4 -- Fair Attendance
5 or more -- Bad Attendance
Note: Every unexcused absence above four
(4) will result in a two point deduction from the overall semester grade for
each such unexcused absence. Students who do not attend at least two (20) class
sessions will receive an F for the course. Students are 100% responsible for all information missed
because of absences. Exam dates
are subject to change with at least a one-week notice. Students are responsible for keeping
abreast of all exam schedules originally projected or revised. An excused absence is
recognized by the professor for an absence that he concludes is either unavoidable
for emergency and/or for which there is a vitally pressing reason(s) for such
absence.
The
professor will consider regular class attendance and classroom participation in
assessing each studentÕs final grade.
Therefore, class attendance and classroom participation might prove to
be a very crucial, determinative factor in cases where the average is
borderline between two grades.
Students
are required to take all exams. Students who miss an exam for non-sufficiently
valid reason(s) will be assigned "0" for that exam and the Ò0Ó will
be computed as part of the final grade.
When
an attendance sign-up sheet is not passed around, then the class roll will be
taken 5-6 minutes after scheduled start time for class. Latecomers will be marked ÒlateÓ; three lates equal one absence. Students arriving 10-15 minutes late will
be marked extra late; two
extra lates equal one absence. A student not present within the
first 15 minutes of each class session will be marked absent for that class
session and is requested not to enter the class during that period.
Additional Comments regarding Attendance, Participation, and Class
Professionalism:
Consistent
with the instructor's own educational philosophy and the rules and regulations
of the University of Georgia, attendance, regular and prompt, and
for the entire duration of the class sessions, is required.
Students who have unavoidable appointments or unavoidable
obligations that require their absence during any portion of the class time
should see the professor prior to or as soon after the date of the
appointment/obligation as possible because under no circumstances whatsoever
should students leave class before it is dismissed by the professor. Students who cannot stay for the
entire class period must miss that class period rather than leave during class
time. Failure to abide by this policy will result in being marked
absent for the entire class session and removal from class if the professor
believes such becomes necessary.
Of
course students must attend class on the examination days. Students are 100% responsible for all
information missed because of absences.
Exam dates are subject to change with at least a one-week notice. Students are responsible for keeping
abreast of all exam schedules originally projected or revised.
This
class will be largely lecture in nature.
The professor will attempt to provide time for class discussion and
participation. The professor will
consider participation and discussion in determining final grades in borderline
situations between two grades.
An
excused absence is one for which a
student has written proof (if at all attainable) that one's absence was
necessitated by a valid cause, e.g., incapacitating illness, death in one's
immediate or close family or of someone close to the student. (Sleeping late, hangovers, and studying for exams are not accepted as excused
absences.) Doctor and dental
appointments, participation in extra-curricular UGA activities, and job
interviews may or may not be excusable.
Consult the instructor
prior to the absence, if at all possible;
if such is not possible, then consult the instructor as soon as possible
after the fact. Attendance at
weddings, baptisms, bar or bat mitzvahs, etc. are not normally excusable
absences. But, again, consult the
instructor.
The
professor does not generally give make-up examinations, even for unavoidable
absences. Instead, if the class is given an extra
exam, persons might use that one
as a substitute for an exam missed because of valid reasons or they may take an
extended final examination that compensates for an exam missed because of valid
reasons.
V. Other Important
Points
Honesty
Policy: All academic work must meet the standards contained in ÒA
Culture of Honesty.Ó All students
are responsible to inform themselves about those standards before performing
any academic work.
All
students are required to be acquainted with and abide by the honesty policy of
the University of Georgia.
Students should do their own work, properly attribute credit when using
that of others, be responsible, and be honest.
This
Syllabus: The course syllabus is a general plan for the
course; deviations announced to
the class by the instructor may be necessary.
Office
Hours: Note the professor's office hours and use them as the need or inclination arises. Remember, if you have questions or
concerns, it is your responsibility to discuss these matters in a rational,
courteous, and responsible manner with your instructor.
Course Outline for
RELI/AFAM
4202 and RELI 6202: Southern Religious History
Dr. Sandy Dwayne Martin (martin@uga.edu)
Fall Semester 2006
I. Introduction: The Course (August 17)
II. Background of
American Religions (August 22, 24,
29, 31)
Readings
A (Required for both 4202 and 6202):
1. Judaism --Hill, Encyclopedia, Judaism
2. Christianity -- Encyclopedia, Protestantism and Roman
Catholicism
3. Islam -- Encyclopedia, Islam
4. African Religions -- Raboteau, Slave
Religion, ch. 1
5. Native American Religions --Encyclopedia, Native
American Religions
Pre-Contact
Readings
B (Required Readings for RELI 6202 and Recommended for RELI 4202):
Jews
in the South, Native American
Religions since 1600
III. The Colonial Phase,
ca. 1607 -- ca. 1783 (September 5, 7)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
Mathews,
ch. 1
Raboteau,
ch. 2
Encyclopedia,
pp. 1-6.
Readings B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Beth
Elohim, Disestablishment, Established Religion, Greek Orthodox Church, Jews in
the South, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Appendix
(Colonial Period).
IV. The Rise and Growth
of Evangelicalism in Colonial and National Phases, ca. 1720 -- ca. 1860
(September 12, 14, 19-First Exam, 21)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
Mathews,
ch. 2
Raboteau,
ch. 3
Encyclopedia,
pp. 6-19
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Andrew
Bryan, Samuel Davies, Evangelicalism, Great Awakening, Great
Revival, Devereaux Jarrett,
Silver Bluff Church, Shubal
Stearns, George Whitefield.
V. Evangelical Southern
Society: Institutions, Plantation
Missions, Interracial
Contacts, ca. 1800 -- ca.
1860 (September 26, 28, October 3)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
Mathews,
ch. 3
Raboteau,
ch. 4 and 5
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Campbellite
Tradition, Grimke Sisters, Landmark Movement,
Methodist
Episcopal Church (South), Mission to Slaves, Mormons,
Southern
Baptist Convention, Triennial
Convention.
VI. Southern Black
Religion in the National Phase, ca. 1800 -- ca. 1861
(October 5, 10 [Midpoint
is October 4; midpoint withdrawal is
Oct. 9)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
Raboteau,
ch. 5
Recommended: Mathews, ch. 5
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
African
Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Black
Catholicism, Lott Carey, Invisible Institution
VII. The Slavery Issue
and Southern Christians, ca. 1780 -- ca. 1861
(October 12, 17, Second Exam-19)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
Mathews,
ch. 4
Raboteau, ch. 6
Recommended: Mathews, ch. 6
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Morris
Brown, Methodist Episcopal Church (South), Southern Baptist Convention, Denmark Vesey.
VIII. Civil War and
Reconstruction: Issues and
Eras, ca. 1837 -- ca. 1880
(October
24 – Second Exam?, 31, November 2, 7)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
1. Civil War
Hill,
Encyclopedia, Abolitionism, Civil War, Judah Philip Benjamin, Presbyterian Church in the United
States, Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States
2. Reconstruction -- Encyclopedia, American Missionary
Association, Lost Cause (The), Henry McNeal Turner
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Mary Boykin Chestnut, Robert Louis Dabney, Thomas
Dixon (Jr.), Abraham Lincoln, James Henley Thornwell
IX. Selected
Developments in Post-Civil War South, ca. 1865 -- ca. 1930
(November 9, 14, 16, 21 - Third Exam?)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
1. Racial Issues
Encyclopedia,
pp. 19-29, Association of Southern
Women for the Prevention
of Lynching, Ku Klux Klan
2. Rise of Black Denominations
Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church,
National Baptists, Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church
IX. (Post-Civil War South) continued . . .
3. Southern White Christian Identity
Lost
Cause (The)
4. Rise of Holiness and Pentecostal Groups
Assemblies
of God, Church of God in
Christ (Inc.), Church of the Nazarene, Holiness Movement, Pentecostalism, William Joseph Seymour
5. Fundamentalism, Modernism,
Millennialism, and Social Gospel
Fundamentalism, Modernist Controversy, Millennialism, Social Gospel
6. Evolution Controversy
Evolution
Controversy, Scopes Trial
7.
Temperance and Women
Eighteenth
Amendment, Temperance, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Women
in Religion
Readings
B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Bible
(Authority of), Bible (Interpretation of), Bible (Inspiration of), Louis
Dembitz Brandeis, William Jennings
Bryan, Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee),
Church of God in Christ (Inc.), Church of God of Prophecy, Fire Baptized Holiness Church (of God
of the Americas), Frank (Leo, Case), Atticus Greene Haygood, Keswick
Movement, Charles Harrison Mason, Henry Lewis Mencken, Lottie (Charlotte Digges) Moon, John
Franklin Norris, Benjamin Morgan Palmer,
Rapture, Sanctification, John
Thomas Scopes, Scopes Trial, Segregation, Snake Handlers.
X. Rise of the Modern
South, ca. 1930 - Present (November
28, 30)
Readings
A (4202/6202):
1. Overview
Encyclopedia,
pp. 29-37
2. Literature
Mary
Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy,
William Faulkner
X. (Modern South) continued
. . .
3.
Southern White Moderates, "Liberals," and Radicals
Will
D. Campbell, Christian Socialism,
Committee on Interracial Cooperation,
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen,
Southern Tenants Farmers' Union
4. Civil Rights Movement
Civil
Rights Movement, Martin Luther
King (Jr.), Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
5.
Religious Leaders
Will
W. Alexander, Bernard Baruch, Mary
McCleod Bethune,
Electronic
Church, Billy Graham, Oral
Roberts, Jones (Bob, Family)
6. Politics, Religion, and Conservative Christian Politics
James Earl
Carter, Moral Majority
7. New
Religious Movements and Recent Developments
Charismatic
Movements, Santeria, Appendix (Recent South)
Readings B (6202; Recommended for 4202):
Baptist
Bible Fellowship, Black
Ministerial Protest Leadership (1955-1970), Will D. Campbell, Caribbean
Immigration, Charismatic Movements, Christian Schools, Committee on Southern Churchmen, Wallie Amos Criswell, Faith
Healing, Tobias Geffen, Harry Golden, Charles
Emmanuel Grace, Mordecai Fowler
Ham (Jr.), Billy James Hargis, Joseph
Harrison Jackson, Clarence Jordan, Martin
Luther King (Jr.), Koinonia Farm, Presbyterian
Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA), Jacob M. Rothschild,
Lillian Eugenia Smith, Southern Sociological Congress, Theology
(Southern), Dorothy Rogers Tilly, United Presbyterian Church, Willis Duke
Weatherford, Gertrude Weil.
XI. Conclusion (December
5)
Final Examination: Thursday, December. 14, 2006, time: 8 – 11 a.m.
NOTE:
The course syllabus is a general plan for the
course; deviations announced to
the class by the instructor may be necessary.
Keep both this syllabus with course outline and consult it often. It is a
vital guide for this course.
Students are encouraged, expected, and advised to ask questions during the quarter about the
syllabus/outline in particular or the course in general concerning points which
they feel require greater clarity.
The instructor reserves the right to alter the format or content of the
syllabus/outline as his professional discretion dictates or allows or as the
occasion demands. But the format
and content should remain reasonably and fundamentally intact.
"WHERE I STAND" GRADE SUMMARY
RELI 4202 / AFAM 4202 / RELI 6202
Fall Semester 2006
Dr. Sandy D. Martin, Professor
Name ______________________________________________
A.
Computing Where I Stand in the Course
Exam #1 ___________
Exam #2 ___________
Exam #3 ___________ (or Paper
for Graduate Students)
Total Points __________ divided by 3 = ____________
This is where you stand in the course.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B.
Computing Final Course Grade
Average of A above __________ x 2 or 3 =
_________________ plus
Final exam
___________x 1 = _________________ equals
by
3 or 4 =
SEMESTER'S GRADE
_________________
divided by 3 or 4 =
_________________
If you did the personal essay at the beginning of course add one (1) point to final
grade.