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In this lecture/discussion video from my Spring 2014 Religion in America class at Marist college, we explore the themes discussed in the textbook for the class (America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century 3rd. ed., by Peter Williams), focusing on Chapter 28, "Unitarians, Universalists, and Transcendentalists".
We discuss the emergence of the Unitarians from the Congregationalists in the Boston area, who both rejected the "New Light" emphasis on religious affections or emotions, and departed from their Calvinist roots as well. We then trace out the interconnection with the Transcendentalist movement, looking at Ralph Waldo Emerson as a bridge figure. After that, we discuss the Universalist movement, which eventually would merge with the more-upper-class Unitarian movement, producing the Unitarian Universalist church of the present
Since videos discussing religion tend to get a number of polemical, poorly informed, and off-topic comments, I've set comments to require review and approval before they'll be publicly posted.
The textbook used for this class can be purchased from Amazon here: http://amzn.to/LS32U4
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