Spring 2027

God & Money

God & Money explores historical connections between capitalism and religion, examining how religious ideas facilitated capitalism's rise, institutional support for inequality, and religious critiques of capitalist systems.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Mary Hennessy

The workload included two lectures per week, one reading before each lecture, a weekly quiz, and two blue book exams.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge of debates surrounding the historical and theoretical relationship between religion and capitalism

  • Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives on the relationship between religion and capitalism across a range of fields (e.g., philosophy, history, sociology) and contexts (e.g., America, Europe, Middle East, and South Asia)

  • Cultivate skills in textual analysis and evaluate a range of formal and structural elements in a range of media

  • Generate original ideas and texts, experimenting and taking risks, solving problems, and answering textual questions

  • Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis and independent and critical thinking in clear prose that meets expectations for grammatical correctness

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Prerequisites

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GERMAN/RELIGST/SOC 273

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADAM STERN is recorded teaching in Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARY HENNESSY is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Mary Hennessy

Students described the course as enjoyable with clear grading criteria, noting that consistent participation and completing manageable reading assignments were key to success.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2013: 3.41 GPA, 75.4% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.50 GPA, 77.3% A/AB (n=44 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.68 GPA, 84.3% A/AB (n=51 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Mary Hennessy

The workload included two lectures per week, one reading before each lecture, a weekly quiz, and two blue book exams.

Past student reviews · Mary Hennessy

One student found the exams frustrating due to a lack of clear grading criteria and expectations, despite the content being manageable.

Topics

  • Religious ideas and practices facilitating the rise of capitalism
  • Religious institutions' role in social inequalities and labor practices
  • Religious actors' role in critiquing capitalism
  • Historical specificity of capitalism in the Christian West and globalization effects
  • Classical social theories, contemporary capital accumulation, and social-economic justice

Skills

  • Integrating divergent perspectives on religion and capitalism across fields and contexts
  • Textual analysis and evaluation of formal and structural elements in various media
  • Writing original, coherent, and compelling analytical arguments

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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