REL 32.08 Catholicism & Orthodoxy in the Americas
A survey of Orthodox and Catholic expressions of faith in the New World, beginning with New Spain in Latin America, New France in Québec, and Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska to the present. Discussions will include treatment of Native Americans, immigration and nativism, debates about cultural assimilation, the role of women, liberation theology, the impact of Vatican II and Humanae Vitae, and clergy sex scandals.