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+ | # Can religion change the world? # | ||
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+ | ## Can religion change the world ## | ||
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+ | Ryan Schram | ||
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+ | Mills 169 (A26) | ||
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+ | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
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+ | 31 May 2017 | ||
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+ | Available at http:// | ||
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+ | ### Readings ### | ||
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+ | Gravers, Mikael. 2012. “Monks, Morality and Military: The Struggle for Moral Power in Burma—and Buddhism’s Uneasy Relation with Lay Power.” Contemporary Buddhism 13 (1): 1–33. doi: | ||
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+ | Hertzberg, Michael. 2014. “The March of the Monks: On the Political Repertoire of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.” In The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development, | ||
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+ | ### Other readings | ||
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+ | Adams, Brad. Burma–Crackdown: | ||
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+ | Bellah, Robert N. 1967. “Civil Religion in America.” Daedalus 96 (1): 1–21. http:// | ||
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+ | Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http:// | ||
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+ | ## Religion and semiotic ideology | ||
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+ | Communicator--Message--Code--World | ||
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+ | Liberalism values the message over the code and its context | ||
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+ | * [**Communicator--Message**]...Code...World | ||
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+ | Many other cultures conceptualize communication in terms of its effects | ||
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+ | * Communicator...[**Message--Code--World**] | ||
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+ | This is not simply a " | ||
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+ | ## A claim for debate ## | ||
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+ | Today, I would like to put forward a claim for us to debate: | ||
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+ | **Historically, | ||
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+ | We can of course debate the individual terms. Even so, the claim can still be made. Religion has more influence on society than mass participation in politics. | ||
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+ | What do you think? | ||
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+ | ## Intersections of religion and politics ## | ||
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+ | * Abolitionism: | ||
+ | * Temperance | ||
+ | * Women' | ||
+ | * Carrie Nation (see Nation 1909, 130) | ||
+ | * Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2014) | ||
+ | * Spiritual politics as a radical critique of society (Badiou 2003). | ||
+ | * Christian nationalism in PNG | ||
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+ | ## References ## | ||
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+ | Badiou, Alain. 2003. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Translated by Ray Brassier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. | ||
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+ | Bellah, Robert N. 1967. "Civil Religion in America." | ||
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+ | Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http:// | ||
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+ | Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. | ||
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+ | _____. 2007. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New Press. | ||
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+ | Nation, Carry Amelia. 1909. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. Topeka: F. M. Steves & Sons. http:// | ||
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+ | ## A guide to the unit ## | ||
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