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- May 2016
+ May 2017
 Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2667/12
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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.
-## 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.
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 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
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   * Women's Christian Temperance Union
   * Carrie Nation (see Nation 1909, 130)
-* "Political Islam" (see Hirschkind 1997).
+* Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2014)
-* Civil religion (see Bellah 1967)
-* Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2007)
 * Spiritual politics as a radical critique of society (Badiou 2003).
+* Christian nationalism in PNG