Final Guide

Important

This page has been updated to reflect what is on the final draft of the midterm exam.

This is a list of concepts and frameworks with which you should be familiar for the final exam. You might be asked to define and/or apply any of these during the examination. You might not be directly asked about these terms, but they can help you answer some of the questions.

Make sure to also review the midterm exam as some of those questions will reappear in the final.

  1. Black Protestants and the Black Church
  2. Why do we talk about there being a Black Church? (think theological orientations, history, leadership)
  3. Social Gospel, liberation theology, black theology vs. Prosperity Gospel 2.Latino Catholics and Latino Protestants
  4. Why is there no Latino Church? Or is there one? (think theological orientations, history, leadership)
  5. Religious minorities (which groups are considered religious minorities?)
  6. What groups are included in the “Other” category and why?
  7. Religious and political orientations of religious minorities
  8. Mobilization of religious minorities
  9. Clergy political speech
  10. Reasons clergy may be influential
  11. Challenges to clergy political influence
  12. Religious rhetoric from political elites
  13. Presidential speech (petitioner vs prophetic speech)
  14. Voter reactions to religious appeals (explicit and multivocal appeals)
  15. Evangelicals
  16. Who are they and how do we identify them
  17. Key historical events for the role of evangelicals in society
  18. Evangelical toolbox (Emerson and Smith 2000)
  19. White Church
  20. Explanations for how race has shaped (white) American Christianity
  21. Racial attitudes among white Christians (Jones 2020)
  22. How politics shapes religion
  23. Impact on religious behavior
  24. Impact on religious identities
  25. The Nones
  26. Who are the nones?
  27. The religious and political orientations of the nones
  28. Religious Left
  29. Examples of the Religious Left
  30. Potential for mobilization (think elite level, mass level, religious orientations)