Foundations
January 3: Course introductions, expectations
IN CLASS: “Tupac’s Ashes“; “Black Jesuz” [video][lyrics]
January 4: Definitions & Contexts
READING: Lyden (ch.1); Mazur (ch.2)
ONLINE READING: Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System”
Mediated Encounters
January 5: Getting Started – Introduction to Method / Theory
ONLINE READING: Rogers, “Introduction”[Archive.org]; Reader, “Introduction to Unit I” and ch.1
IN CLASS: Barbie (2023)
January 8: Music & Radio
READING: Hulsether (ch.7); Hangen (ch.6)
January 9: Television, Film, & Social Networks
READING: Siegler (ch.3); Lyden (ch.5); Wagner (ch.8); Campbell & Teusner (ch.9)
IN-CLASS: Raising Arizona (1987)
DUE: Theory / Method sign-up
Material & Locative Encounters
January 10: Popular Literature, and Comics & Graphic Novels
READING: “Introduction to Section II, part B”; Chapman (ch.11); Kraemer & Lewis (ch.12)
ONLINE READING: Rogers (ch.1 and ch.2)[Archive.org]
DUE: Barbie Project, Part I (Film analysis)
January 11: Civil & Cultural Religion
READING: “Introduction to Section II, part C”; Caterine (ch.20); Scholes (ch.19)
ONLINE READING: Reader, “Where We Are“
January 12: Thinking About Writing & Research
READING: No new reading
January 15: NO CLASS (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
ONLINE READING: Weiss, “Remember, Celebrate, and Forget”
January 16: Cooking & Food / Use of Theory & Method
READING: Zeller (ch.13)
ONLINE READING: Rogers (ch.3 and ch.4)[Archive.org]; Reader, “Introduction to Unit III“
January 17: Discussion of Theory & Method
ONLINE READING: Rogers (ch.5 and ch.6)[Archive.org]; Critique #1; Critique #2; Critique #3; Critique #4; Critique #5; Critique #6
DUE: Barbie Project, Part II (Method analysis)
Religious Traditions
January 18: Protestants, Catholics, & Jews
READING: “Introduction to Section III”; Marsh (ch.28); Payne (ch.22); Mazur (25)
January 19: Thinking About Research & Writing
READING: No new reading
January 22: Muslims, Hindus, & Buddhists
READING: Youmans (ch.24); Nayar (ch.23); Shields (ch.21)
January 23: Presentations (Barbie Project, Part III)
January 24: Presentations (Barbie Project, Part III)
January 22: CONCLUSIONS
DUE: Barbie Project, Part IV (Integration)
