REL 22200 Amusements and American Religion

(GE-Phl-Rel) This course will be the study of religion, amusements and American popular culture and the move from Puritanism to "Prurientism" from 1776 to 1926. Paralleling and supporting the Religion in America course, this course will look at the progression of entertainment in America from the austere Puritan founders to the flouting of morals in the Roaring Twenties.