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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.512
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Students who are in the process of writing the B.A. thesis are advised, not to register for this seminar.
If possible, the seminar will require classroom presence.
Contents:
American culture has been marked by recurring periods of religious awakenings characterized by Evangelical fervor and calls for (individual and social) reformation. The seminar will discuss the various historical contexts and will venture into the fields of religious psychology and the sociology of religion. Its main focus will be on specific documents in order to ascertain by which means religious fervor was generated and how they expressed religious experience. Texts will include works by Jonothan Edwards and George Whitefield, Charles Finey and examples of recent fundamentalism and Tele-Evangelism.
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