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+ | ====== Weekly plan and assigned readings ====== | ||
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+ | ^08.03 ^ [[1|Why is religion interesting and problematic? | ||
+ | | | We will discuss the unique weekly cycle this class follows, the assignments, | ||
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+ | ^15.03 ^ [[2|Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about.]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Unit outline and assignments, | ||
+ | | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. | | ||
+ | | Research: | Tutorials will meet **as scheduled**. | | ||
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+ | ^22.03 ^ [[3|Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? | ||
+ | |Read: | Douglas, Ortner | | ||
+ | |Write: | State your answer to the question of the week, and explain your position using examples and reasoning. | | ||
+ | |Research: | [[Possible topics]] assignment due this week on Blackboard. This is a good time to browse the stacks. Read widely in several topic areas, and find out what you are curious about. | | ||
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+ | ^29.03 ^ [[4|Why would someone join a religious commune?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Palmer| | ||
+ | | 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 [[starting points for your research|detailed ethnographies]] on your topic. Consult with Ryan if you want some ideas.| | ||
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+ | ^ 05.04 ^ [[5|Can you learn to hear God?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Luhrmann | | ||
+ | | Write: | Write one question you can ask in tutorial and one observation about ' | ||
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+ | ^ 12.04 ^ [[6|Do religions mix?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Romberg | | ||
+ | | Write: | Why does Romberg reject the concept of religious syncretism? Do you agree or disagree and why? | | ||
+ | | Research: | [[Progress report]] due this week on Blackboard. | | ||
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+ | ^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.| | ||
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+ | ^ 26.04 ^ [[7|Is African Christianity just ' | ||
+ | | Read: | Meyer, Newell | | ||
+ | | Write: | Write one question you can ask in tutorial and one observation about ' | ||
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+ | ^ 03.05 ^ [[8|Is Christianity singular or plural?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Robbins, Cannell | | ||
+ | | Write: | Which has a stronger influence on the other: religion on culture, or culture on religion? | | ||
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+ | ^ 10.05 ^ [[9|Can you buy salvation? | ||
+ | | Read: | Jones, Brenner\* | | ||
+ | | Write: | What would Suzanne Brenner say about Jones' | ||
+ | | Research: | [[Thesis statement and outline]] due this week on Blackboard. | | ||
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+ | ^ 17.05 ^ [[10|Do all societies eventually become secular?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Mahmood, Deeb\* | | ||
+ | | Write: | Why do we see an apparent increase in ' | ||
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+ | ^ 24.05 ^ [[11|Do liberal societies need beliefs?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Mahmood, Keane\* | | ||
+ | | Write: | Do liberal democracies have a ' | ||
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+ | ^ 31.05 ^ [[12|Can religion can change the world?]] ^ | ||
+ | | Read: | Gravers, Hertzberg\* | | ||
+ | | Write: | Take a stand on the claim that religious movements, political or not, produce greater social change than secular political activism. | | ||
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+ | ^ 07.06 ^ [[13|To be revealed...]] ^ | ||
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+ | ^ Reading and finals weeks ^ Final paper due on 6 June on Blackboard. ^ | ||
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+ | ===== Unit readings (* indicates recommened readings) ===== | ||
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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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+ | Cannell, Fenella. 2005. “The Christianity of Anthropology*.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 335–56. doi: | ||
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+ | *Deeb, Lara. 2009. “Piety Politics and the Role of a Transnational Feminist Analysis.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15 (January): S112–26. | ||
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+ | Douglas, Mary. 2002. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 51–71. London: Routledge. | ||
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+ | Durkheim, Emile. 2008. “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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+ | 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: | ||
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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, | ||
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+ | 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: | ||
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+ | Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: | ||
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+ | Mahmood, Saba. 2009. “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?” In Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, edited by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, 64–100. Berkeley, Calif.: Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California. | ||
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+ | 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: | ||
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+ | Newell, Sasha. 2007. “Pentecostal Witchcraft: Neoliberal Possession and Demonic Discourse in Ivoirian Pentecostal Churches.” Journal of Religion in Africa 37 (4): 461–90. doi: | ||
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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, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society.” American Anthropologist, | ||
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+ | Romberg, Raquel. 1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1): 69–82. | ||