Schedule
Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (5/23/2016 - 5/25/2016) Location: MAIN CLASS 222
Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (5/23/2016 - 6/13/2016) Location: MAIN CLASS 223
Description
This course will explore the complex relationship between religion and violence from ca. 1453 to 1789. Topics will include Christian-Muslim conflict following the fall of Constantinople, religious conversion in the New World, popular unrest and violence during the Reformation, the Age of Religious Wars in Europe, the Russian Old Believer Schism, the Inquisition, Orthodox peasant uprisings in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth following the Union of Brest, and anti-clerical violence in the French Revolution. Students will examine pertinent primary and secondary sources and reflect on the complex interplay between religious, political, social, economic, cultural factors in cases of historical violence.
Note: This elective may be used as a history or religious studies elective.