This is what students in "Theorizing Religion" will find in our online learning system Canvas. (I add files in bursts as we go along.) It's a little misleading, of course. These are indeed the readings for the first six weeks (full syllabus here), but they'll be intertwined with a MOOC on a "world religion" - Buddhism or Islam. And right after that come the old guard: Hume, Schleiermacher, Marx, James, Freud, Durkheim, Weber, Eliade - albeit braided with contemporary critiques and alternatives. But this initial list gives a better reflection, in approach as well as demographics, of the field of religious studies today.Monday, August 27, 2018
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This is what students in "Theorizing Religion" will find in our online learning system Canvas. (I add files in bursts as we go along.) It's a little misleading, of course. These are indeed the readings for the first six weeks (full syllabus here), but they'll be intertwined with a MOOC on a "world religion" - Buddhism or Islam. And right after that come the old guard: Hume, Schleiermacher, Marx, James, Freud, Durkheim, Weber, Eliade - albeit braided with contemporary critiques and alternatives. But this initial list gives a better reflection, in approach as well as demographics, of the field of religious studies today.