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From the founding of the United States to the current uprisings identified as the "Arab Spring," religion and political and social revolution often seem to be curious yet common travel partners. This course will ask why and how religion and political revolution travel together. How do religious language, symbols, and identities shape writing and other forms of discourse? How has religion or a critique of religion informed many of the larger social movements of the modern era (slave resistance, black power, feminism, workers' rights, democratic participation and citizenship)? This course will focus on works that foreground the interaction between religion and revolutionary movements throughout the modern era.
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