Religion and the First Amendment
Analyzes religious group conversations around the First Amendment's creation and interpretation, focusing on American Jewish communities' engagement with the Supreme Court.
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What you’ll be able to do
Articulate the implicit definitions that Supreme Court decisions rely on.
Identify how those definitions serve particular forms of religion over others.
Analyze how practitioners of different traditions, the clergy, and non-religious Americans are defined in these arguments.
Articulate the interactions between Jews and non-Jews within the context of minority-majority relationships in the United States.
Develop speaking and writing skills about the sensitive topics of religion, politics, and race.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Learn and analyze the conversations religious groups had around the creation of the First Amendment in the 1780s and how these conversations developed as the First Amendment was interpreted and reinterpreted throughout American history, with a focus on American Jewish communities' engagement with the Supreme Court as a primary case study. While keeping majority Christian concerns in mind, attend closely to how minority religions and communities have attempted to translate their religious practices into the overwhelmingly white Protestant Christian idiom of the Supreme Court.
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- Creation of the First Amendment in the 1780s.
- American Jewish communities' engagement with the Supreme Court.
- Minority religions translating practices into the Supreme Court's idiom.
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- Analyze historical conversations regarding the First Amendment and its interpretation.
- Articulate implicit definitions in Supreme Court decisions.
- Develop speaking and writing skills on religion, politics, and race.
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