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Religion can change the world
Religion can change the world
Ryan Schram
Mills 169 (A26)
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
4 June 2015
Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2667/13
Readings
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.
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.
Badiou, Alain. 2003. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Translated by Ray Brassier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Bellah, Robert N. 1967. “Civil Religion in America.” Daedalus 96 (1): 1-21. http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm
Bialecki, Jon. 2009. “Disjuncture, Continental Philosophy’s New ‘political Paul,’ and the Question of Progressive Christianity in a Southern California Third Wave Church.” American Ethnologist 36 (1): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01102.x.
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2012.669278.
Hirschkind, Charles. 1997. “What Is Political Islam?” Middle East Report. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam.
Lawrence, Peter. 1989. Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.
Tomlinson, Matt, and Debra McDougall. 2012. Christian Politics in Oceania. New York: Berghahn Books.
Other media
Liptak, Adam. 2015. “Muslim Woman Denied Job Over Head Scarf Wins in Supreme Court.” The New York Times, June 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/us/supreme-court-rules-in-samantha-elauf-abercrombie-fitch-case.html.
Key ideas for this week
- Badiou
- Cargo cult or Rehabilitation Scheme? (Lawrence 1989)
- Rheinhold Niebuhr: Church and sect
- Joel Robbins: A sect as big as society.
- Looking back
Comments appreciated
This class will be taught again in Sem 1 2016. Your thoughts on this unit and ways to improve it are really helpful. You can fill out a “Unit of Study Survey” online at the Institute for Teaching and Learning web site. Watch your email for information on this. I also welcome feedback in any form.
A guide to the unit
ANTH 2667: The anthropology of religion—a guide to the unit