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Kai Parker

Assistant Professor
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of Religious Studies
Office location and address
1540 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
Recent courses as listed in the Student Information System (SIS) Course Catalog:
RELG 2559: New Course in Religious Studies
Credits: 1–4
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
RELG 3559: New Course in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
RELG 5559: New Course in Religion
Credits: 1–4
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of general religion.
RELG 8400: Historiography Seminar in American Religion
Credits: 3
Examines current historiographical issues in the interpretation of religion in American history. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
RELG 8756: Crucibles of American Modernity: 1870-1930
Credits: 3
This graduate tutorial examines the crucible of modernization in the United States between the years 1870 and 1930, from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. The tutorial focuses on how the intersection of religion, politics, race, gender, sexuality, urbanization, settler colonialism, and material culture shaped the rise of as well as resistances to American modernity, thereby transforming American conceptions of the sacred.