ClassInfo - Spring 2018 Religious Studies Classes

Spring 2018 | RELS 4049 Section 001: Religion and Culture (51849)

Instructor(s): Hoon Song
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: ANTH 4049 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM

UMTC, East Bank

Blegen Hall 145
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 10 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Religious beliefs and world views cross-culturally. Religious dimensions of human life through theories of origins, functions, and forms (e.g. myth, ritual, symbolism) of religion in society. prereq: ANTH 1003 or ANTH 1005 or instr consent
Class Description:: This semester, the class' subtitle is 'sacredness.' The operational presupposition of the class is that sacredness is more than a mental phenomenon: it often involves objects and bodies. Modern perspectives on religion have long downplayed this 'material' aspect as they privileged iconoclastic spirituality. The anthropology of religion aims to go beyond the material/spiritual opposition; and asks how rituals employ objects and bodies in order to capture the effect we might call spiritual or mystical. Arguably, this may include political gestures such as protest suicides. Through select examples, this class explores how religious practices around the world and across time variously deployed this material/spiritual division as a resource rather than as a hierarchical opposition.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51849/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 26 November 2010

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