De/Constructing Religion
FGSS 230
Spring 2013
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01
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| Crosslisting:
RELI 488 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
We tend to assume religion is a trans-historical 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 post-colonial transformation of various socio-ethical 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) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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. |
| Instructor(s): Fernando,Mayanthi Leilani Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: ALLB103; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 35 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 7 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 9 | FR: 9 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 5 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
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