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-Religion as ideology #+Do religions mix? #
  
-## Religion as ideologyor Global Christianity and neoliberalism  ##+## "Syncretic" religion"creole" culture and the politics of authenticity ##
  
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-16 April 2015+13 April 2016
  
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 ### Readings ### ### Readings ###
  
-RudnyckyjDaromir2009. “Market Islam in Indonesia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15S183201. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2009.01549.x.+RombergRaquel1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1)6982.
  
-WiegeleKatharine L2013. “Reframing Suffering and Success through the El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines.” Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 5 (2): 6688http://ejournals.ph/index.php?journal=dlsu-apssr&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=6741+PalmiéStephan2013a. “Mixed Blessings and Sorrowful Mysteries: Second Thoughts about 'Hybridity'” Current Anthropology 54 (4): 463–82. doi:10.1086/671196. 
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 +———. 2013b. The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
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 +Stewart, Charles. 1999. “Syncretism and Its Synonyms: Reflections on Cultural Mixture.” Diacritics 29 (3): 4062doi:10.1353/dia.1999.0023. 
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 +Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. London: Routledge.
  
-Cahn, Peter S. 2006. “Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer.” American Ethnologist 33 (1): 126–42. doi:10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.126.  
  
 ### Other media ### ### Other media ###
  
-OsteenJoel. 2015. “Choosing Faith In Spite Of The Facts 2015.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N9DF2yfjG8Accessed February 15, 2015. +MovsesianMark. 2015. “Yoga at the University: Those Canadian Students Have a Point.” First Things. November 30. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/11/yoga-at-the-university. 
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 +MeakinsFelicity. 2015. “Some Australian Indigenous Languages You Should Know.” The Conversation. May 8. http://theconversation.com/some-australian-indigenous-languages-you-should-know-40155. 
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 + 
 +## "Practical" and "ethical" religions? ##
  
-Search for more videos and information about Joel Osteen. Why is his "prosperity gospel" so controversial?+  * Practical: healing, protection, solving problems 
 +  * Ethical: Being good, achieving salvation, seeking truth 
 +  * From James's perspective, do these ideal types apply to Horizon and Vodou?
  
 +## Theories of culture and culture contact ##
  
-## Another world is possible ##+* Diffusionism and historical particularism 
 +  * Diffusionism: Cultural traits or patterns are invented and established in one culture, and then spread to other cultures, leading the recipients to change. 
 +  * Franz Boas (1940, 281): "Each cultural group has its own unique history, dependent partly upon the peculiar inner development of the social group, and partly upon the foreign influences to which it has been subjected." (Boas 1940 [1929], 286)
  
-The [[https://fsm2015.org/en|World Social Forum]]a meeting of groups from around the world who +* Creolization 
-are all combating globalizationhas a slogan: *Another world is +  * Creole languages, e.g. Haitian //kreol//, Jamaican //patois//etc. 
-possible*.+  Ulf Hannerz: creole languages : "creole" cultures 
 +  The creolization of culture creates a new cultureIs it a "modern" culture? Why or why not?
  
-Is this the only world that is possible? 
  
-What other worlds are possible?  
  
-What would you change? 
  
-## A is A, A is not-A: Contradictions are everywhere ##+## Syncretic religions ##
  
-You can'have a war without both a winner and a loser.+* What are some examples of religions based on syncretism?  
 +* Is the Twelve Tribes a syncretic religion?  
 +* Is the Horizon Christian Fellowship?  
 +* Is Christianity itself syncretic?  
 +* What if there are syncretic religions but we do not label them that way? Why wouldn'we?
  
-You can't have a purchase without a buyer and a seller.+## The term 'syncretism' ##
  
-You can't have an economy where everyone is a business owner. If there +* Alliance 
-are owners, then there are also workers who work for the +* Political union 
-ownerAhaThat is a class system.+* Mutual recognition of sacraments 
 +* Borrowing, corruption, acculturation, transition...
  
-You can't have a society in which everyone accumulates money. If one 
-person is accumulating then one person is giving it up. 
  
-## Contradictions create tension, tension leads to change ##+## The politics of syncretism and antisyncretism ##
  
-Think about adding salt to soupA little bit makes it goodA lot +* [[http://honisoit.com/2014/11/university-rescinds-racist-theme-for-end-of-year-staff-party/|University of Sydney staff holiday party, 2014: "Theme: Mexican fiestaBring your ponchos and sombreros!"]] 
-makes it disgusting.+* Yoga or mindful stretching?  
 +* Dreadlocks 
  
-Think about snow on a mountain. It builds up and accumulates, until 
-suddenly it all falls down in an avalanche. 
  
-## If the world is always in flux, what is reality? ##+## References ##
  
-Think about the last lecture you went toDid it have definitions of concepts? Did it break down a big idea into its defining characteristics? +Boas, Franz1940 [1920]. "The Methods of Ethnology." In Race, Language and Culture, pp. 281-289. New York: The Macmillan Company. 
  
-How do you know if this kind of a statement is true? Is this all there is?  
  
-## Black is whiteup is down ## +StewartCharles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. Routledge.
  
-* Liberal democracy is a system based on equality of all citizens, and each person's rights as an individual, and yet liberal democracies are the most economically unequal societies that have ever existed.  
-* Never before have humans been able to feed so many with so few 
-  resources, and yet starvation and obesity are both widespread. 
-* Biomedical technology has nearly wiped out mortality from infectious 
-  diseases ... until we all die from superbugs. 
  
  
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