REL 3310 - Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Modern World

Goals: To understand the persons and movements within Christianity that contribute to an ever-evolving and reforming understanding of faith, faith-based organizations, and social change movements, through biography to get in-depth glimpses of the challenges and opportunities that religious leaders face, and to think broadly about the concepts of reform and revolution within a religious context.

Content: Luther, Calvin, Wesley, 19th-century United States religious movements with special emphasis on African-American and women’s contributions, Martin Luther King, feminist/womanist theology, the challenges to and within Christianity in the last 500 years that have led to both reform and revolution.

Taught: Alternate years.

Credits: 4 credits