De/Constructing Religion
FGSS 230
Spring 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
RELI 488 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
We tend to assume religion is a transhistorical phenomenon, an essential form of human experience shared across various cultures and geographic spaces. Religion is distinct from politics, science, art, and the economy, or so we hold. But how did this notion of religion emerge, and what exactly are its parameters? This course examines the construction of religion as a category and a concept and the way its emergence intersects with particular matrices of sex/gender, as well as with attendant notions of agency, autonomy, civilization, progress, and modernity. Particular attention will be paid to the colonial genealogy of the modern concept of religion and to the colonial and postcolonial transformation of various socioethical traditions into "religions." |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (RELI) |
Major Readings:
Talal Asad, GENEALOGIES OF RELIGION: DISCIPLINE AND REASONS OF POWER IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Lara Deeb, AN ENCHANTED MODERN: GENDER AND PUBLIC PIETY IN SHI'I LEBANON
Tracy Fessenden, CULTURE AND REDEMPTION: RELIGION, THE SECULAR, AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Saba Mahmood, POLITICS OF PIETY: THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL AND THE FEMINIST SUBJECT
Lata Mani, CONTENTIOUS TRADITIONS: THE DEBATE ON SATI IN COLONIAL INDIA
Tomoko Masuzawa, THE INVENTION OF WORLD RELIGIONS: OR, HOW EUROPEAN UNIVERSALISM WAS PRESERVED IN THE LANGUAGE OF PLURALISM
Bethany Moreton, TO SERVE GOD AND WAL-MART: THE MAKING OF CHRISTIAN FREE ENTERPRISE
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Religion Department "Method & Theory" requirement toward the major. |
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