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, "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, "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:
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.