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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, edited by Christopher M. Dent and Camilla Brautaset, 103–16. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.  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, edited by Christopher M. Dent and Camilla Brautaset, 103–16. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. 
  
-## Other readings ##+### Other readings
  
 Adams, Brad. Burma–Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. Human Rights Watch. New York, December 2007. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/burma1207web.pdf. Adams, Brad. Burma–Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. Human Rights Watch. New York, December 2007. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/burma1207web.pdf.
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 Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam. Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam.
  
 +## Religion and semiotic ideology
  
-## Key points ##+Communicator--Message--Code--World
  
-### From last week ###+Liberalism values the message over the code and its context
  
-* Should societies prohibit proselytising, and if so, by who? +* [**Communicator--Message**]...Code...World
-* "Semiotic ideology," a way of understanding how communication works, +
-  whether certain kinds of communication are more valuable or more +
-  effective than others. +
-* "Western" semiotic ideology +
-* There are always contradictions between communication and semiotic ideology.+
  
-### Intersections of religion and politics ##+Many other cultures conceptualize communication in terms of its effects 
 + 
 +* Communicator...[**Message--Code--World**] 
 + 
 +This is not simply a "cultural" difference in the sense of Us/Them or East/West. To some extent, all cultures have to recognize that communication really happens in the second model. Even if one's ideology places value on the first model, there are still situations in which that gives way to the second.  
 + 
 +## A claim for debate ## 
 + 
 +Today, I would like to put forward a claim for us to debate: 
 + 
 +**Historically, religious movements are more effective at achieving social change than any other kind of mass political movement.** 
 + 
 +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. 
 + 
 +What do you think?  
 + 
 + 
 +## Intersections of religion and politics ##
  
 * Abolitionism: In the UK and US, and possibly in Australia  * Abolitionism: In the UK and US, and possibly in Australia 
 * Temperance * Temperance
-* "Political Islam" (see Hirschkind 1997). +  * Women's Christian Temperance Union 
-* Civil religion (see Bellah 1967) +  * Carrie Nation (see Nation 1909, 130) 
-* Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2007)+* Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2014)
 * Spiritual politics as a radical critique of society (Badiou 2003).  * Spiritual politics as a radical critique of society (Badiou 2003). 
 +* Christian nationalism in PNG
  
  
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 Badiou, Alain. 2003. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Translated by Ray Brassier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Badiou, Alain. 2003. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Translated by Ray Brassier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
  
-Fox, Jonathan. 2015. Political Secularism, Religion, and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. +Bellah, Robert N. 1967. "Civil Religion in America." Daedalus 96 (1): 1-21. http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm 
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 +Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam.
  
 Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
  
 _____. 2007. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New Press. _____. 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://archive.org/details/useandneedoflife00natirich.
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