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ASSIGNMENT:

What are various ways that Beal shows the tensions of E Pluribus Unum? Where do you experience the tensions between "the many" and "the one" of American religion?

How does religious identity intersect with other identities? Gender, race, ethnicity, political affiliations, nationality? How does the Lenz reading highlight these intersections? How do these identities overlap in your experience?

For those who watched God in America, here are a few questions from the study guide linked hereLinks to an external site.)

• What role did religion play in the cultural misunderstandings and colonial relations of Europeans and Native peoples in the New World? How did the religious worldviews of the Europeans and Indians differ?
• What is religion? How do you define it? Is it a matter of doctrines, creeds, rituals and traditions, as it was for Catholic Spain? Is it an all-encompassing way of seeing and experiencing the natural world, as it was for the Native inhabitants encountered by the Franciscans?
• How would you describe John Winthrop's vision of a Puritan community, and how attainable do you think it was? What advice was he giving to his companions?

For those of you who watched the video on Christian Nationalism, here are a few questions:

• How does the speaker define Christian Nationalism?
• What changes do they observe in the prevalence of Christian Nationalism in recent years?
• What problems or threats do they link to the rise of Christian Nationalism?