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--> Skip to Content People Faculty Fellows Staff Courtesy Appointments National Advisory Board Contributors Academics Courses Undergraduate Minor Colloquium Fellowships Publications Faculty Books Religion & Politics Center Publications Book Series Events Upcoming Past Videos About About the Center News Expertise Annual Reports FAQ Contact Us In the Classroom We offer a broad and diverse undergraduate curriculum focusing on the intertwined relationship between religion and politics across U.S. history, from the colonial era to the present. We also support early career scholars with fellowships that offer teaching and research opportunities at the Center. Courses Undergraduate Minor Colloquium Fellowships Courses Our courses range widely in topics, but all focus on the cultivation of research and interpretive skills necessary for analyzing and responding to issues that shape society and culture in the United States. Gateway Courses Gateway courses are required for the minor in religion and politics and serve as an introduction to the field of study. All Gateway Courses Spring 2024 Fall 2024 L57 RelPol 201 M/W 10:00–11:20AM Religion and American Society This course investigates the many ways that U.S. culture, politics, and society shape—and are shaped by—religious beliefs and practices. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Professor Details L57 RelPol 210 T/Th 10:00AM–11:20AM The Good Life between Religion and Politics This course considers the way religious and political thought has shaped considerations of the classical ethical question of how we should live. Fannie Bialek Assistant Professor Details L57 RelPol 225 T/Th 10:00–11:20AM Religion and Politics in American History This course traces how conceptions of “religion” and “the state” changed in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century to the dawn of a new millennium. Aram Sarkisian  Postdoctoral Fellow Details L57 RelPol 320 M/W/F 9:00–9:50AM Religious Freedom in America This course investigates the intersections of the law and the social history of religious freedom in America. It examines issues such as constitutional principles of religious freedom and the rights of religious groups to dissent, from America’s founding to the present. John D. Inazu Professor Mark Valeri Professor Details Please check back soon for a gateway course offering! Please check below for our other course offerings this semester. Read more about gateway courses and the undergraduate minor in religion and politics here. Past Courses Courses Our courses cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the intersection of American religion and politics both historically and in the present. Select a semester to see our most recent course offerings or scroll to the bottom to view past courses. All Recent Courses Spring 2024 Fall 2024 L57 RelPol 203 W 2:30–5:20PM Religions of St. Louis: Communities of Faith and Practical Action Across the Region This course directly introduces students to some of the religious diversity of St. Louis. R. Marie Griffith Professor Details L57 RelPol 240 T/Th 10:00AM–11:20AM Jewish Political Thought Judah Isseroff Details L57 RelPol 290 T/Th 10:00–11:20AM Islamophobia &＃038; U.S. Politics This course examines the phenomenon of Islamophobia as a form of anti-Muslim racism as it has manifested throughout U.S. history and within contemporary American politics. Tazeen M. Ali Assistant Professor Details L57 RelPol 307 Th 3:00PM–5:50PM Solidarity and Silence: Religious Strategies in the Political Sphere This course explores the religious and political thought guiding civil disobedience and non-violent direct action in the 20th and 21st centuries. Fannie Bialek Assistant Professor Details L57 RelPol 321 T/Th 11:30AM–12:50PM American Religion, Law, and Sexual Politics Eric Stephen Details L57 RelPol 3230 M/W 11:30AM–12:50PM Jews and Jewishness in Black American Thought Judah Isseroff Details L57 RelPol 354 W 3:00–5:50PM Christian Theology and Politics in the Modern World What does theology have to do with politics? This course attempts to answer that question by reading and discussing important texts from the western Christian tradition and investigating what they have to say about issues such as political revolution, loyalties to the nation, economic policy, gender, and race. Mark Valeri Professor Details L57 RelPol 362 T/Th 2:30–3:50PM Islam, Gender, Sexuality Investigates how gender and sexuality inform social, political, and family life in diverse Islamic contexts, spanning from seventh century Arabia to the contemporary U.S. Tazeen M. Ali Assistant Professor Details L57 RelPol 380 M/W 4:00PM–5:20PM American Religion, Media, and Technology Michael Baysa Details L57 RelPol 395 M/W 1:00AM–2:20PM Topics in Religion and Politics: Jewish Women and American Culture This course examines the history of Islam and Muslims in the United States, from the earliest days of the country's founding to the contemporary everyday life of Muslims in the U.S. Abigail Modaff Details L57 RelPol 4125 M 3:00PM–5:50PM The First Amendment in an Age of Fracture John D. Inazu Professor Details L57 RelPol 430 T 3:00–5:50PM Spiritual But Not Religious: The Politics of American Spirituality This seminar focuses on the formation of “spirituality” in American culture from the Transcendentalist world of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman on through more recent expressions of the “spiritual-but-not-religious” sensibility. Leigh Eric Schmidt Professor Details L57 RelPol 435 M 3:00PM–5:50PM Sabbath Politics: Rest and Refusal in Religion and Politics Fannie Bialek Assistant Professor Details L57 RelPol 490 W 2:00PM–4:50PM Monuments, Museums, and Mountains: Religion and the Politics of Place in Modern America Leigh Eric Schmidt Professor Details Past Courses Course Highlight Islam, Gender, Sexuality Investigates how gender and sexuality inform social, political, and family life in diverse Islamic contexts, spanning from seventh century Arabia to the contemporary U.S. Tazeen M. Ali Details Recent Event Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America with Heather Cox Richardson Professor of history and Letters from an American author/podcaster Richardson discusses her new book. 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