Research on American Cultural Change and Secularization

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course focuses on the literatures and practices relevant to the study of cultural transformation in the U.S. since 1990 and how it has affected young adult interest in American institutional religion. Participating students are actively involved in a grant-funded empirical research project studying the causes of cultural change in the U.S. and the ways those shaped the religious outlooks and interests of members of Gen X and Millennials. The course will focus both on learning methods of social research, theories of culture and cultural change, and the sociology of religion. Registration by permission of the instructor only.