• Religion in the US

• The role of religion today (history)

• Christianity - denominations - Islam - Judaism
• First Amendment - Freedom of religion in the US
• Secularism - Separation of church + state - church attendance
• Megachurch - McChurch - Televangelism
• National Day of Prayer
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Godly or gimmick? Churches offer free gas - Senat prayer led by Hindu elicits protest - Is voting a Christian rite or right? - At swearing in, a congressman wants to carry Koran

• American Religions

• Puritan - Quaker - Roman Catholic - Lutheran - Anglican - Babtist - Methodist - Presbyterian - Episcopalian - Unitarian - Congregationalist - Pentecostal - Jehovah’s Witnesses - Mormon
• Fundamentalist denominations - cults - Scientology - polygamist groups - snake-handling
• Deism - Atheism - Humanism
• Sunday school

• Creationism and evolution

• Keep Creationism out of science class - creation and evolution in public education
• Charles Darwin - “On the origin of species“ (1859)

• Evangelicalism

• “Jesus Camp“ (2006) - Kids on Fire School of Ministry
• Church meets state (political influence of evangelicals)
• David Koresh - Waco Siege 1993
• Billy Graham - Ted Haggard - Haggard admits immorality

• America is a religion

• George Caleb Bingham  

•  Religion in the UK

•  Religious identity in the UK (history)

• Anti-Christian sentiment - Mark Pritchard - Christianophobia - markpritchard.com - parliament.uk - churchgoing in the UK

• The phenomenon of religious radicalism

• Mohja Kahf
• The Islamist (2007) - Reflections of a former Islamist Extremist

Creationism and evolution

• Ten major court cases about evolution and creationism
• The Simpsons: “The Monkey Suit“ (2006)
• Religion in The Simpsons
• South Park: “Go God Go“ (2006)
• Family Guy: “Untitled Griffin Family History“ (2006)