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| ====== Weekly plan and assigned readings ====== | ====== Weekly plan and assigned readings ====== | ||
| - | ===== I. Defining religion ===== | + | ^08.03 ^ [[1|Why is religion interesting and problematic? |
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| - | ^01.03 ^ [[1|Why is religion interesting and problematic? | + | |
| | | We will discuss the unique weekly cycle this class follows, the assignments, | | | We will discuss the unique weekly cycle this class follows, the assignments, | ||
| - | ^12.03 ^ [[2|Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about.]] ^ | + | ^15.03 ^ [[2|Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about.]] ^ |
| - | | Read: | Unit outline and assignments, | + | | Read: | Unit outline and assignments, |
| | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. | | | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. | | ||
| - | | Research: | Tutorials will meet in Fisher Library this week for a library lab session. | | + | | Research: | Tutorials will meet **as scheduled**. | |
| - | ^19.03 ^ [[3|Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? | + | ^22.03 ^ [[3|Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? |
| |Read: | Douglas, Ortner | | |Read: | Douglas, Ortner | | ||
| |Write: | State your answer to the question of the week, and explain your position using examples and reasoning. | | |Write: | State your answer to the question of the week, and explain your position using examples and reasoning. | | ||
| - | |Research: | This is a good time to browse the stacks. Read widely in several topic areas, and find out what you are curious about. | | + | |Research: | [[Possible topics]] assignment due this week on Blackboard. |
| - | ^26.03 ^ [[4|Why would someone join a religious commune?]] ^ | + | ^29.03 ^ [[4|Why would someone join a religious commune?]] ^ |
| | Read: | Palmer| | | Read: | Palmer| | ||
| | Write:| State your answer to the week's question, and explain your position using examples and reasoning.| | | Write:| State your answer to the week's question, and explain your position using examples and reasoning.| | ||
| - | | Research:| By now, it would be good to have found one or more detailed ethnographies | + | | Research:| By now, it would be good to have found one or more [[starting points for your research|detailed ethnographies]] on your topic. Consult with Ryan if you want some ideas.| |
| - | ===== II. Religion | + | ^ 05.04 ^ [[5|Can you learn to hear God?]] ^ |
| + | | Read: | Luhrmann | | ||
| + | | Write: | Write one question you can ask in tutorial | ||
| - | ^ 02.04 ^ [[5|Protestant theology created Western modernity.]] ^ | + | ^ 12.04 ^ [[6|Do religions mix?]] ^ |
| - | | Read: | Haynes, Robbins, Robbins\*, Cannell\* | + | | Read: | Romberg |
| - | | Write: | Discuss | + | | Write: | Why does Romberg reject |
| + | | Research: | [[Progress report]] due this week on Blackboard. | ||
| - | ^ 09.04 ^ Classes cancelled for Christian-Jewish syncretic festivals. | + | ^19.04 ^ Classes cancelled for syncretistic Judeo-Christian feasting |
| + | | Research:| You should have one or more ethnographic works on a single topic that you can read over break. Pay attention to what surprises you, and start thinking about your research question.| | ||
| - | ^ 16.04 ^ [[6|Religion is the opiate of the masses, or religious ideas give legitimacy to the social order and power structure.]] ^ | ||
| - | | Read: | Rudnyckyj, Wiegele, Cahn* | | ||
| - | | Write: | Agree or disagree with this week's claim. Explain your reasoning and reflect on the facts you take from Rudnyckyj, Wiegele, and your own reading. | | ||
| - | | Research: | Topic statement due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. | | ||
| - | ===== III. Enchantments ===== | ||
| - | ^ 23.04 ^ [[7|Why do people pray for health in West Africa?]] ^ | + | ^ 26.04 ^ [[7|Is African Christianity just ' |
| - | | Read: | Omenyo, | + | | Read: | Meyer, |
| - | | Write: | Give one question and one observation about ' | + | | Write: | Write one question |
| - | | Research: | What is the main question - the why question - you want to ask? How many different ways can it be answered? | + | |
| - | ^ 30.04 ^ [[8|Witchcraft and sorcery are out of control in PNG.]] ^ | + | ^ 03.05 ^ [[8|Is Christianity singular or plural?]] ^ |
| - | | Read: | Jorgensen, Wesch\*, Schram\* | + | | Read: | Robbins, Cannell |
| - | | Write: | Reject or defend | + | | Write: | Which has a stronger influence on the other: religion |
| - | | Research: | Progress report due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. | | + | |
| - | ^ 07.05 ^ [[9|You can learn to be possessed.]] ^ | + | ^ 10.05 ^ [[9|Can you buy salvation?]] ^ |
| - | | Read: | Luhrmann, and watch Deren online | + | | Read: | Jones, Brenner\* |
| - | | Write: | Give one question and one observation | + | | Write: | What would Suzanne Brenner say about Jones's argument? How would Jones respond? |
| - | | Research: | Start reading the 'feed forward' | + | | Research: | [[Thesis statement |
| - | ===== IV. Religion and public life ===== | ||
| - | ^ 14.05 ^ [[10|The world is getting more secular. Some conservatives just haven' | + | ^ 17.05 ^ [[10|Do all societies eventually become |
| - | | Read: | Deeb, Mahmood\*, Harding\*, Brenner\* | | + | | Read: | Mahmood, |
| | Write: | Why do we see an apparent increase in ' | | Write: | Why do we see an apparent increase in ' | ||
| - | | Research: | Writing workshop in tutorial. | | ||
| - | ^ 21.05 ^ [[11|Liberal democracies must outlaw blasphemy in order to promote tolerance.]] ^ | + | ^ 24.05 ^ [[11|Do liberal societies need beliefs?]] ^ |
| - | | Read: | Keane, Weill\* | | + | | Read: | Mahmood, |
| - | | Write: | Take a stand on this week's claim and discuss your reasons based on the readings and other facts you have found. | | + | | Write: | Do liberal democracies have a 'sacred'? |
| - | | Research: | Thesis statement and paper outline due on Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. | | + | |
| - | ^ 28.05 ^ [[12|Religion | + | |
| - | | Read: | Hertzberg, Adams\* | | + | ^ 31.05 ^ [[12|Can religion |
| + | | Read: | Gravers, Hertzberg\* | | ||
| | Write: | Take a stand on the claim that religious movements, political or not, produce greater social change than secular political activism. | | | Write: | Take a stand on the claim that religious movements, political or not, produce greater social change than secular political activism. | | ||
| - | | Research: | Writing workshop in tutorial. | | ||
| - | ^ 04.06 ^ [[13|To be revealed...]] ^ | + | ^ 07.06 ^ [[13|To be revealed...]] ^ |
| - | ^ 11.06 ^ Final paper due on 11 June. ^ | + | ^ Reading and finals weeks ^ Final paper due on 6 June on Blackboard. ^ |
| - | ===== Unit readings ===== | + | ===== Unit readings |
| - | ==== Required readings ==== | + | *Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi: |
| - | Deeb, Lara. 2009. “Piety Politics and the Role of a Transnational Feminist Analysis.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | + | Cannell, Fenella. 2005. “The Christianity |
| - | Deren, Maya, Cherel Ito, and Teiji Ito. ca. 1947–1954. Divine Horsemen: | + | *Deeb, Lara. 2009. “Piety Politics and the Role of a Transnational Feminist Analysis.” The Journal |
| - | Douglas, Mary. 2002 [1966]. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 51–71. London: Routledge. | + | Douglas, Mary. 2002. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 51–71. London: Routledge. |
| - | Haynes, Naomi. 2012. “Pentecostalism and the Morality of Money: Prosperity, Inequality, and Religious | + | Durkheim, Emile. 2008. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious |
| - | Hertzberg, Michael. 2014. “The March of the Monks: | + | 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:10.1080/ |
| - | Jorgensen, Dan. 2014. “Preying on Those Close to Home: Witchcraft Violence | + | *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 |
| - | Keane, Webb. 2009. “Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons.” Public Culture 21 (1): 47–76. doi: | + | Jones, Carla. 2010. “Materializing Piety: Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist 37 (4): 617–37. doi: |
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| + | *Keane, Webb. 2009. “Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons.” Public Culture 21 (1): 47–76. doi: | ||
| Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: | Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: | ||
| - | Omenyo, Cephas. 2011. “New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle?: Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana.” In Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, edited by Candy Gunther Brown, 231–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | + | Mahmood, Saba. 2009. “Religious Reason |
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| - | Ortner, Sherry B. 1973. “Sherpa Purity.” American Anthropologist 75 (1): 49–63. doi: | + | |
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| - | Palmer, Susan J. 2010. “The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua’s Return.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 13 (3): 59–80. doi: | + | |
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| - | Robbins, J. 1998. “Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Desire among the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea.” Ethnology 37 (4): 299–316. doi: | + | |
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| - | Rudnyckyj, Daromir. 2009. “Market Islam in Indonesia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15: S183–201. doi: | + | |
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| - | Wiegele, Katharine L. 2013. “Reframing Suffering | + | |
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| - | Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi: | + | |
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| - | Adams, Brad. Burma--Crackdown: | + | |
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| - | Cahn, Peter S. 2006. “Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer.” American Ethnologist 33 (1): 126–42. doi: | + | |
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| - | Cannell, Fenella. 2005. “The Christianity of Anthropology*.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 335–56. doi: | + | |
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| - | Durkheim, Emile. 2008 [1912]. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael Lambek, 34–47. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. | + | |
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| - | Harding, Susan. 1991. “Representing Fundamentalism: | + | |
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| - | Jorgensen, Dan. 2005. “Third Wave Evangelism and the Politics of the Global in Papua New Guinea: Spiritual Warfare and the Recreation | + | |
| Mahmood, Saba. 2001. “Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Şalat.” American Ethnologist 28 (4): 827–53. doi: | Mahmood, Saba. 2001. “Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Şalat.” American Ethnologist 28 (4): 827–53. doi: | ||
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| Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi: | Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi: | ||
| - | Robbins, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, | + | Newell, Sasha. 2007. “Pentecostal Witchcraft: Neoliberal Possession |
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| - | Schram, Ryan. 2010. “Witches’ Wealth: Witchcraft, Confession, and Christianity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16 (4): 726–42. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2010.01650.x. | + | |
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| - | Weill, Nicolas. 2006. “What’s in a Scarf?: The Debate on Laïcité in France.” French Politics, Culture & Society 24 (1): 59–73. | + | |
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| - | Wesch, Michael. 2007. “A Witch Hunt in New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial.” Anthropology and Humanism 32 (1): 4–17. doi: | + | |
| + | Ortner, Sherry B. 1973. “Sherpa Purity.” American Anthropologist 75 (1): 49–63. doi: | ||
| + | Palmer, Susan J. 2010. “The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua’s Return.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 13 (3): 59–80. doi: | ||
| + | Robbins, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society.” American Anthropologist, | ||
| + | Romberg, Raquel. 1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1): 69–82. | ||
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