1. Albanese, “Introduction,” America :  Religions and Religion, 1-18          

2.  Smith, “Religion, Religions, Religious,” 269-84

 1.  Rev Bill Hybels, “Processing a National Tragedy”

2.  Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Our Estrangement from God.”

3.  Frederica Mathewes-Green, “Repent.”

4.  Watch one hour of prime-time television commemorating attacks

 1.  Albanese, "Word from the Beginning:  American Protestant Origins", 102-123.

2.  Porterfield, “The Puritan Legacy in American Religion and Culture”

3.  Valeri, “Religion and the Market in Early New England .”

4.  Wolfe, “The God of a Diverse People” on US and bin Laden

 1.  Albanese, "Original Manyness:  Native American Traditions," 19-38

2.  Axtell, "Reduce Them to Civility" 131-161. 

3.  “Mitakuye Oyasin” on September 11, by Michael Hull, Lakota Sun Dancer

 1.  McCutcheon, “Myth,” 190-208.

2.  Bercovitch, "The Biblical Basis of the American Myth," 219-229

2.  Alexander Whitaker, “Good Newes from Virginia ,” 30-36

3.  John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity,” 37-41.

All found in God’s New Israel,  pp. 1-41.

4.  President George W. Bush:  Two Presidential Addresses

 1.  Albanese, “ Black Center :  African-American Religion,” 191-201.

2.  Raboteau, "African Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel ," 75-86. 

3.  Rev. Louis Farrakhan Speech on September 16^th, on www.noi.org

1.  Jonathan Edwards, “The Latter-Day Glory is Probably to Begin in America ,” 54-58.

4.  Moore , "The Spoken Word, State Performance, and the Profits of Religious Spectacle," 40-65.

1. Albanese, Nineteenth-Century New Religions, 218-249

2.      2.  Handley, “Mormonism and Other Narratives of the Living Dead” 235-257.

3. Read the Mormon web site, at www.lds.org, especially "The Prophet Joseph Smith's Testamony."

 1.  Albanese ch. 2 

2.  Eisen, The Chosen People in America , Ch. 1:  3-22.

 1.  Harris, Holy Days , 54-76, and 150-175.

2.  Shenk,  “What Would Moses Do?”

 1.  Albanese Ch. 3

2. Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street , Intro , Ch. 1, 4, 5, 7.

3.  “The Pope’s Message,” by Pope John Paul 11

 1.  Herberg, Protestant-Catholic-Jew

2.  Albanese , Ch. 10:  "Public Protestantism:  Historical Dominance and the One Religion of the United States "

1. Ammerman, Bible Believers

2.  Lelwica, “Losing their Way to Salvation,” 180-200.

3.  Billy Graham, “The Mystery of Evil.”

4.  Statement by Jerry Falwell

 1. Ammerman, Bible Believers

2.  Benware, Understanding End Times Prophecy: A Comprehensive Approach, 91-133.

3.  Jenkins, “Is this an Apocalyptic Event?”

 1.  Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology, 73-105.

2.  Starhawk, “What Would the Goddess Say?”            

 1. Chidester, Salvation and Suicide

 1.      Leigh Schmidt, “The Easter Parade”

2.  Stephen Prothero, “Cremation American Styles:  Consumers’ Last Rites,”

 1.  Karen Brown, Mama Lola:  A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

Begin Reading The Rapture of Canaan

 1.  Randall Hepner, “The House that Rasta Built:  Church-Building and Fundamentalism among New York Rastafarians.”

1.      2.  Luis Leon, “Born Again in East LA :  The Congregation as Border Space”

2.      3.  Continue reading The Rapture of Canaan

December 4

 1.  Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan   (Novel)

December 9

 Screening Religion