Communication Arts and Religious Studies
374
Intensive Short Course
Schedule
6 /17:
Lecture #1,
"Civil Religion, Theocracy, and The War on Terrorism"
Required Reading: Excerpt of Usama bin Laden. “Declaration
of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.”,
and Bush, George W. "Statement of the President in Address to the Nation". September 2001. Online. May 20 2004.
6/18:
Lecture
#2, "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.
6/19:
Lecture #3,
"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."
Week 2
6/23:
Lecture
#4, "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
6 /24:
Lecture
#5, "Greek Rhetoric before Plato"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, "Chapter
One."
Graduate Students Required/Undergraduates Recommended:
Read excerpt of “Areopagiticus” from
Isocrates. 2000. Volume II: Discourses. Jeffrey Henderson Ed and George
Norlin Trns. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 127-141.
6/25:
Lecture
#6, "Plato and Aristotle"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition,
"Chapter Two."
6/26:
Lecture
#7, "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.)
Week 3
6/30
Special
Lecture, "Jerusalem and Rome"
Required Reading: None
7 /1
Lecture
#8, "Peter, Paul, and Constantine"
Required Reading: Conely, Rhetoric in the European Tradition, Chapters
"Three" and "Four."
7 /2:
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.
7 /3:
Lecture #10, "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.)
7 /4:
HOLIDAY
Week 4
7/7:
HOLIDAY
7/8:
HOLIDAY
7/9:
Lecture #11,
"Free Will and the Devolution of Religious 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.)
7 /10:
Lecture #12,
"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.
Week 5
7/14
Lecture
#13, "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.)
7/15:
Lecture
#14, "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
Section III: Cases
7 /16:
Lecture
#15, "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>
7/17:
Lecture #16,
"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.)
Week
6
7/21:
Lecture
#16, Continued
7/22:
Lecture
#17, "Colonial Puritanism: Institutions and the Vernacular"
Required Reading: Shepard,
Thomas. 1981. Thomas Shepard's Confessions. Boston : Colonial Society
of Massachusetts. 81-84 & 102-105.
7/23:
Lecture
#18, "Quakerism and the Authority of Testimony"
Required Reading:
Woolman, John. 1971. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. Ed.
Phillips P. Moulton. New York: Oxford University Press. 34-43; and
Ratcliff, Mildred, 1890. Ann Brason Ed. Memoranda
and Correspondence of Mildred Ratcliff. Philadelphia: WM. H. Piles Sons
Printers. 18; 22.
7/24:
TBA
Week 7
7/28
Special
Lecture, "The First Great Awakening"
Required
Reading Edwards,
Jonathan. 1741. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Philadelphia: Presbyterian
Board of Publication. 1-15.
7/29:
Special
Lecture, "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.
7 /30:
Lecture #21, "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. and “Billy
Graham Evangelist Association."
7/31:
Lecture #22,
"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.)
Week
8
8/4
Lecture
#23, "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.)
8/5
Lecture
#24, "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.)
8/6:Last
Day, "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.
8/7:
IN-CLASS EXAMINATION.
Evaluations
Take Home Exam Announced.