Nature of Religion Presentations/Reflection Papers

Feb 21 Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic, 1  ADRIANA

Feb 23 Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic, 2  TRICIA

Feb 28 Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, 1  JAHNAVI

Mar 2 Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, 2  BRIDGETT

Mar 7 Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System”, “‘The Pinch of Destiny’”  JAMES

Mar 9 Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy, “The De-Secularization of the World”  CAROLINE

Mar 21 Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, 1  DASH

Mar 23 Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, 2  JESSICA

Mar 28 Edward Said, Orientalism, 1  HARRISON

Mar 30 Edward Said, Orientalism, 2  IONE

Apr 4 Bernard Lewis, “The Question of Orientalism”  Aijaz Ahmad, “Orientalism and After”;  Irfan Khawaja, “Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam”  JOANNA

Apr 6 Talal Asad, “ The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category”;  Kevin Schilbrack, “Religion, Models Of, and Reality”  KHADEEJAH

Apr 11 King, Orientalism and Religion;  Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions  JILLIAN

Apr 13 Shaw, “Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies”;  McCutcheon, “A Default of Critical Intelligence?”;  Prothero, “Belief Unbracketed”  DEREK

Apr 18 Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions, 1  PHILIP

Apr 20 Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions, 2  ALEXA

Apr 25 Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1  ASJA

Apr 27 Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 2

May 2 Todd Tremlin, Minds and Gods;  Bering and Johnson, “‘O Lord, You Perceive my Thoughts from Afar’”  ALLEN

May 4 Matt Rossano, “The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religion”,  Supernatural Selection  LAURA