Communication Arts and Religious
Studies 374
Schedule
Part I: What is Religion? What is Rhetoric?Week 1
9/2: Lecture #1, "What is Religion? What is Rhetoric?"
9/4: Lecture #2, "Religion, Government, and War"
Required Reading: Excerpt of Usama bin Laden. “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.”
Recommended to be browsed: Usama bin Muhammad bin Laden "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying Land of the Two Holy Place, 'Expel the Infidels from the Arab Peninsula' a Message from Usama bin Muhammad bin Laden unto his Muslim Brethren all over the World generally, and in the Arab Peninsula specifically." Azzam.com. August 23, 1996. [September 16 2001.] <http://www.azzam.com/html/articlesdeclaration.htm> (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Anonymous bin Laden Biography (Not in your packet. Please download here.) The Day of Wrath (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Martin, Marty. "Our Religio-Secular World." Daedalus. Summer 2003. 132.3. 42-48 (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
Recommended Videos on Reserve in 3rd Floor Vilas Media Center: American at a Crossroads: Jihad: The Men and Idea Behind Al Qaeda (William Cran, 2007, USA English, color, 120 min.) PBS Home Video; American at a Crossroads: Jihad: The Brotherhood (Tony Stark, 2007, USA English, color, 60 min.) PBS Home Video; American at a Crossroads: Warriors (Ed Robbins, 2007, USA English, color, 60 min.) PBS Home Video.
Section for Week #1: Why All This Matters
Assignment: Read Bush, George W. "Statement of the President in Address to the Nation". September 2001. Online. May 20 2004. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html 9/11 Speech>Week 2
9/9: Lecture #3, "Religion of the Community"
Required Reading: Durkheim, Emile, Trans. Joseph Swain. "Conclusion." The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: The Free Press, 1965 [1915]. 462-496.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Durkheim, Emile, Trans. Joseph Swain. "Introduction," The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: The Free Press, 1965 [1915]. 13-33.
9/11: Lecture #4, "Religion of the Individual"
Required Reading: James, William. 1958 [1902]. "The Reality of the Unseen." The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Penguin Books. 58 - 75."
Section for Week #2: Pluralism and the First Amendment
Assignment: Read Bush, George W. “The Big 4 - 0.” A Charge to Keep. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999. 132-139.Week 3
9/16: Lecture #5, "Religion and Worldview"
Required Reading: Geertz, Clifford. 1957. "Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols." The Antioch Review. 17: 4. 401-437.
Part II: The Intertwined History of Religion and Rhetoric in the West
9/18: Lecture #6, "Greek Rhetoric before Plato"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, "Chapter One."
Section for Week #3: Representing the Religious: "The One"
Assignment: In class.Week 4
9/23: Lecture #7, "Plato and Aristotle"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, "Chapter Two."
9/25: Lecture #8, "Roman Rhetoric"
Required Reading: Quintilian. "Preface." Institutio Oratoria, Books I - III. H. E. Butler, Trans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Cicero. "Book I." Of Oratory, in The Rhetorical Tradition. Boston: Bedford Books. 1990. 195-232. (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
Section for Week #4: Representing the Divine in Popular Media: The Passion of the Christ
Section Assignment: In class.Week 5?
9/30: Lecture #9, "Jerusalem and Rome"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, Chapter "Three."
10/02: Lecture #10, "Peter, Paul, and Constantine"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, Chapter "Four."
Section for Week #5: Representing the Divine in Popular Media: Relevant.com
Section Assignment: In class.Week 6
10/07: Lecture #11, "Augustine's On Christian Doctrine"
Required Reading: Augustine. "Book IV." On Christian Doctrine, D. W. Robertson, Jr. Trans. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. 117 - 167.
10/09: Lecture #12, "The Growing Divide between Church and State"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, Chapter "Five" and Luther, Martin. "95 Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," in Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, Timothy F. Hull, Ed. and Trans. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1989. 21 - 29.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Decartes, René. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Ilana and Greg Newby, Trans. Online. 19 May 2004. <http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1600-1699/descartes-discourse-124.txt> (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Ramus, Peter. Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian. Carole Newlands and James J. Murphy, Trans. DeKalb: University of Northern Illinois Press, [1549]1983.(Not in your packet. Please download here.)
Section for Week #6: The Evil Empire
Section Assignment: Regan, Ronald. 1983. "Remarks to the National Association of Evangelicals." (Not in your packet. Please download here.)Week 7
10/14: Lecture #13, "Free Will and the Devolution of Catholic Authority"
Required Reading: Eramus, Desiderius. "Preface: Man and Truth," from A Diatribe or Sermon Concerning Free Will, in Discourse on Free Will, Ernst F. Winter, Ed. and Trans. New York: The Continnuum Publishing, 1992. 3 - 20. and Luther, Martin. "Introduction" and "Review of Erasmus' Preface," in Bondage of the Will,. J. L. Packer & O. R. Johnston, Trans. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Barker Book House Company. 1957. 62 - 107.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Howard, Robert Glenn. "The Double Bind of the Protestant Reformation: The Birth of Fundamentalism and the Necessity of Pluralism" (in Journal of Church and State, Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2005: 91-108.) (Not in your packet. Please download here.)Part III: Modern Rhetorical Analysis
10/16: Lecture #14, "Modern Rhetorical Analysis: Bitzer"
Required Reading: Bitzer, Lloyd. 1995 [1968]. "The Rhetorical Situation." Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, C. R. Burgchardt Ed. State College, PA: Strata Publishing Company. 58- 68.
Section for Week #7: Burke's Definition of the Human
Section Assignment: Read Burke, Kenneth. Excerpt from "The Definition of Man." Language as Symbolic Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. 16.Week 8
10/21: Lecture #15, "Modern Rhetorical Analysis: Burke"
Required Reading: Burke, Kenneth. 1966. "Terministic Screens." Language as Symbolic Action. Berkeley: University of California Press. 44 - 62
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Burke, Kenneth. 1966. "The Definition of Man" Language as Symbolic Action. Berkeley: University of California Press.3-24. (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
10/23: FIRST IN-CLASS EXAMINATION.
Section for Week #8: Midterm Review
Section Assignment: Develop and bring questions for review before midterm examination.Week 9
10/28: Lecture #16, "Speech Acts: Blessing, Cursing, and Weddings"
Required Reading: Austin, J.L.. 1975 [1955]. "Lecture I," "Lecture X, XI, and XII." How to do Things with Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1 - 11, and 121- 164.
Part IV: Cases
10/30: Lecture #17, "Genesis: On the Face of the Waters"
Required Reading: Genesis, 1 - 3 KJV (Not in your packet. Please download or use you own copy.) and Pritchard, Ray. "God in Three Persons (A Sermon) ." Calvary Memorial Church. May 20, 2004. <http://www.cmcop.org/sermons/011297.htm>
Section for Week #9: Pledging
Section Assignment: Read The United States Pledge of AllegianceWeek 10
11/4: Lecture #18, "First there was the word . . . "
Required Reading: John, KJV (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Revelation, KJV (Please look over the whole book and read at least the last three chapters.Not in your packet. Please download here.)
11/6: Lecture #19, "Colonial Puritanism: Institutions and the Vernacular"
Required Reading: Shepard, Thomas. 1981. Thomas Shepard's Confessions. Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 81-84 & 102-105.
Section for Week #10: Proposal Workshop
Section Assignment: Prepare and bring two (2) copies of the paper proposal form.Week 11
11/11: Lecture #20, "Quakerism and the Authority of Experience "
Required Reading: Woolman, John. 1971. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. Ed. Phillips P. Moulton. New York: Oxford University Press. 34-43.
11/13: Lecture #21, "The Great Awakening"
Required Reading: Edwards, Jonathan. 1741. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1-15.
Section for Week #11: God's Touch
Section Assignment: Read Ratcliff, Mildred, 1890. Ann Brason Ed. Memoranda and Correspondence of Mildred Ratcliff. Philadelphia: WM. H. Piles Sons Printers. 18; 22.
Week 12
11/18: Lecture #22, "Finney and the Second Great Awakening"
Required Reading: Finney, Charles G. "Lecture VIII: Being Filled with the Spirit." Lectures on Revivals of Religion. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company. 118-133.
11/20: Lecture #23, "Black Elk Speaks and the American Indian Church"
Required Reading: Black Elk. 1979 [1932] "The Great Vision." Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. Neihardt. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Section for Week #12: Praying with Billy Graham
Section Assignment: Read except from “Billy Graham Evangelist Association”
Week 13
11/25: Lecture #24, "The Sinner's Prayer"
Required Reading: Version 1: Halhbohm, Danny, Version 2: Harden, Garon, Version 3: McGregor Ministries, Version 4: Our Youth Group, and Against the Sinner's Prayer: Staten, Steven.
Section for Week 13: None
Thanksgiving Break
November 27 - 30Week 14
12/2: Lecture #25, "Vernacular Christian Fundamentalism"
Required Reading: Howard, Robert Glenn. "Fundamentalism." 2006. Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media, Daniel Stout editor. New York: Berkshire Publishing. 155-160, and "Pre-Wrath Bible Prophecy Time Line" Outline of the End Times. <http://home.elp.rr.com/endtimeprophecy/outline.htm> 1/13/07.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Hendershot, Heather. “Praying for the End of the World: The Past, Present, and Future of Christian Apocalyptic Media.” Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 176-209. (Not in your packet. Please download here.), Howard, Robert Glenn. "Negotiating Finality: Electro-Folk Rhetorics of Apocalypse" (in Journal for Millennial Studies Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1999). (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Howard, Robert Glenn. "On-Line Ethnography of Dispensationalist Discourse: Revealed versus Negotiated Truth" (in Religion on the Internet, Douglas Cowan and Jeffery K. Hadden, editors. New York: Elsevier Press, 2000: 225-246). (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Wojcik, Daniel. 1996. "Embracing Doomsday: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Nuclear Age." Western Folklore 55. 297-330. (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
12/4: Lecture #26, "Heaven's Gate: The Media Savvy Ritual Suicides"
Required Reading: Robinson, Wendy. 1997. "Heaven's Gate: The End?" Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 3: 3.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Howard, Robert Glenn. "Attitudes Toward the Tragic: A Not-So-Biased Approach to the Heaven's Gate E-mail Campaign" (in Journal for Millennial Studies Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1998) (Not in your packet. Please download here.) and Howard, Robert Glenn. "Sustainability and Radical Rhetorical Closure: The Case of the 1996 'Heaven's Gate' Newsgroup Campaign" (in Journal of Communication and Religion, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2005: 99-130.) (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
Recommended Videos on Reserve in 3rd Floor Vilas Media Center: Frontline: The Jesus Factor (Raney Aronson, 2004, USA English, color, 60 min.) PBS Home Video.
Section for Week #14: A Man of Faith
Section Assignment: Aikman, David. “A Political Bombshell.” A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush. New York: W Publishing, 2004. 1-13.Week 15
12/9: Lecture #27, "When Science Meets Religion: The Gaia Hypothesis"
Required Reading: Lovelock, James. "Preface," "Introductory," and "In the Beginning . . . " from Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:Russell, Peter. "The GLOBAL BRAIN and the Evolution of the WWW." Online. 20 May 2004. <http://www.peterussell.com/TowardsGB.html> (Not in your packet. Please download here.)
12/11: Lecture #28, "Plurality and Pluralism"
Required Reading: Mansfield, Stephen. “Of Men and Mustard Seeds” and “A New Day of Infamy.” The Faith of George W. Bush. Lake Mary, Florida: Charisma House, 2003. 59 – 73 and 129 – 147.
Section for Week #15: Final Review.
Section Assignment: Develop and bring questions for review before final examination.
Finals Week
12/12, by 5:00 PM: FINAL PAPER emailed to section instructor in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf. format.
12/14, 2:45- 4:45: COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION.
Location: 5208 Soc Sci