Apr 24, 2024  
2020-2021 Rivier Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Rivier Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIS 225 - God and Caesar: Dictatorship and Religion in the Twentieth Century


In this course, student will use a historical framework to analyze the notion of competing claims to loyalty and faith between political regimes and religious faiths. In particular, the class will study the moral dilemma of Christians in Nazi Germany and in Stalinist Russia. It will analyze questions of Social Darwinism and religion as well as questions of capitalism and socialism and religion.

Credits: 3



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