Communication Arts and Religious Studies 374
Intensive Short Course
Lecture Schedule


Week 1
Part I: Lived Communications of the Sacred
6 /13:
Lecture #1
, "Communicating the Sacred"
Required Reading/Viewing: 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>. Reading: Excerpt from Revelation KJV Viewing: Hellhouse excerpt.

6/14:
Lecture #2, "The Peculiar Power of the Sacred"
Required Reading: Geertz, Clifford. 1957. "Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols." The Antioch Review. 17: 4. 401-437. and Excerpt of Usama bin Laden. “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.”,
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. and Excerpt from Book of Common Prayer, "The Holy Communion."
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.

6/15:
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." and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. "Spiritual Help." Http://www.billygraham.org/SH_StepsToPeace.asp. Accessed August 13, 2006. and Viewing: Mark McKool excerpt and Billy Graham excerpts.
Lecture #5, "Living Religiously"
Required Reading McQuire, Meredith. 2008. "Everyday Religion and Lived." Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press. 3-17., Halhbohm, Danny, 1999. "The Sinners Prayer" Http://http://home.swbell.net/cshann/index0.html. Accessed May 20, 2004. Harden, Garon, "Greater Open Door - Sinners Prayer" Greater Open Door. Http://http://www.greateropendoor.org/sinner.htm. Accessed May 20, 2004. McGregor Ministries 2004. "The Sinners Prayer: A Christian Outreach to those Trapped in Cult Groups" MacGregor Ministries. Htttp://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/sinners_prayer.html. Accessed May 20, 2004. and Our Youth Group. 2004. "Sinners Prayer?" Our Youth Group. Http://www.ouryouthgroup.com/sinnersp.html. Accessed May 20,2004. Viewing excerpt: Jack Van Impe Presents, Oct. 1994.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Staten, Steven.2004. "The Sinner's Prayer: Modern Apostasy and False Teaching that Prevents Men from being Saved" The Interactive Bible. Http://www.bible.ca/g-sinners-prayer.htm. Accessed May 20, 2004. and McGuire, Meredith. 2008. "Rethinking Religious Identity, Commitment, and Hybridity." Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press. 185-213.

6/16:
Part II: Religion, Magic, and Language in the West

Lecture #6, "Greek Rhetoric "
Required Reading: Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in Rhetoric in the European Tradition.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Plato, "Gorgias." and Plato," Phaedrus," Excepts from "The Republic": Book VII 514-521;Book VIII 557-570; Isocratese, "Against the Sophists,"Excerpt from "Antidosis." 253-323; Excerpt of “Areopagiticus” from Isocratese. 2000. Volume II: Discourses. Jeffrey Henderson Ed and George Norlin Trns. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 127-141., Aristotle, On Rhetoric, "Book I." Aristotle, Excerpt from Ethics
Lecture #7
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"Roman Rhetoric"
Required Reading: Chapters 4 and 5 in Rhetoric and the European Tradition.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Cicero. "Book I." Of Oratory, in The Rhetorical Tradition. Boston: Bedford Books. 1990. 195-232; and Quintilian. "Preface." Institutio Oratoria, Books I - III. H. E. Butler, Trans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Week 2
6/20:
Lecture #8
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"Ancient Judaism, Peter, Paul, and Constantine "
Required Reading: Genesis, 1 - 3 KJV, and John, KJV.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: "Exodus 32" 1999. JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: The New JPS Translation. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society. 183-186.;"Job." 1999. JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: The New JPS Translation. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society. 1657-1725.
Lecture #9,
"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.

6/21:
Lecture #10, "Church and State"
Required Reading: Howard, Robert Glenn. 2005. "The Double Bind of the Protestant Reformation: The Birth of Fundamentalism and the Necessity of Pluralism." Journal of Church and State, 47.1 (Winter): 91-108.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: Descartes, 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>; Ramus, Peter. Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian. Carole Newlands and James J. Murphy, Trans. DeKalb: University of Northern Illinois Press, [1549]1983; 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.); 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.
Lecture #11, "The European Gods Come to North America: Colonial Puritanism versus the Quakers "
Required Reading: Shepard, Thomas. 1981. Thomas Shepard's Confessions. Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 81-84 & 102-105; and Woolman, John. 1971. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. Ed. Phillips P. Moulton. New York: Oxford University Press. 34-43.

Part III: Rhetorical Theory for Document Analysis
6/22:
Lecture #12
, "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. and The United States Pledge of Allegiance
Lecture #13,"Constitutive Discourse"
Required Reading: Gaonkar, Dilip. 1990. "Object and Method in Rhetorical Criticism: From Wichelns to Leff and McGee." Western Journal of Speech Communication. 54 (Summer): 290-316.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: McGee, Michael . 1990. "Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture " Western Journal of Speech Communication. 54 (Summer): 274-289. and Leff, Michael, and Andrew Sachs . 1990. "Words Most Like Things: Iconicity and the Rhetorical Text " Western Journal of Speech Communication. 54 (Summer): 252-273.

6/23:

Lecture, #14, "Terministic Screens"
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.
Lecture #15,
"Being a Social Critic"
Required Reading: Walzer, Michael. "Social Criticism."
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended: None.

Part IV: Diverse Cases of Religious Expression
Week 3
6/27
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Lecture #16,
"Heaven's Gate: The Media Savvy Ritual Suicides"
Required Reading: Howard, Robert Glenn. 2011. "The Media Savvy Ritual Suicides: How the Heaven's Gate Group Co-Opted Institutional Media and Created a New Tradition" in Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End in Internet Media, Robert Glenn Howard, Ed. London: Sheffield/Phoenix Press. 200-222.
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:Howard, Robert Glenn. "Sustainability and Radical Rhetorical Closure: The Case of the 1996 'Heaven's Gate' Newsgroup Campaign. Journal of Communication and Religion, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2005: 99-130 and Robinson, Wendy. 1997. "Heaven's Gate: The End?" Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 3: 3.
Lecture #17, "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>

6/28:
Lecture #18, "Witching"
Required Reading: Starhawk. 1979. "Witchcraft as Goddess Religion" The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. New York: Harper and Row. 1-16;and Magliocco, Sabina. 2004. Excerpts from Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lecture #19, "Mayan Calendar 2012"
Required Reading: Wikipedia on "The 2012 Phenomenon"; and please bring the URL of one website or youtube video you have found by searching "Mayan Calendar 2012".

6/29:
Lecture #20,
"Digital Jesus I"
Required Reading: Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in Digital Jesus 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: Howard, Robert Glenn. "Fundamentalism." 2006. Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media, Daniel Stout editor. New York: Berkshire Publishing. 155-160, and and Revelation, KJV.
Lecture #21, "Digital Jesus II "
Required Reading: Chapters 4, 5, and 6 in Digital Jesus.
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.

6/30:
Lecture #22,"Antichrist Obama"
Required Reading: Amarasingam, Amarnath. 2011. "Baracknophobia and the Paranoid Style: Visions of Obama as the Antichrist on the Worldwide Web" in Network Apocalypse; Visions of the End on the Internet, Robert Glenn Howard, Ed.. Phoenix/Sheffield University Press. 96-123.Viewing: Jack Van Impe on Obama excerpt and McCain, "The One" and "The One II"
Lecture #23, "Islamic Apocalypse Online"
Required Reading: Drissel, David. 2011. "Pan-Islamist Networks of Apocalypse: Mobilzing Diasporic Muslim Youth on Facebook" in Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End on the Internet, Robert Glenn Howard Ed.. Phoenix/Sheffield University Press. 145-182.

Week 4
Independence Day Holiday
No Class Monday, July 4

7/5:
Lecture #24, "Plurality and Pluralism"
Required Reading: Bush, George W. “The Big 4 - 0.” A Charge to Keep. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999. 132-139.
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"; and videos on Reserve in 3rd Floor Vilas Media Center: Frontline: The Jesus Factor (Raney Aronson, 2004, USA English, color, 60 min.) PBS Home Video.

7/6: Open Day for Catch up, Questions, and Study

7/7:
IN-CLASS EXAMINATION. 
Evaluations

Take Home Exam Announced.

Take Home Exam Due
Monday, July 11, 2011
By 5 pm via email to
rgh@rghoward.com