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Description
This course--which carries with it the Core writing designation
(W)--is intended for REL majors and minors wishing to develop
their research and writing skills prior to graduation. The
course will require students to read samples of current literature
in the field and to work cooperatively in creating an online
reference resource for undergraduates in the study of religion.
The acquisition of some web editing skills will therefore
also result from this course.
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Syllabus
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Spring
2008 (PDF)
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The site to be built in this course is entitled
The
Artifactory.
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The name, conceived while Prof. McCutcheon was visiting the
University of Victoria in October 2007 (specifically, during
dinner with Profs. Andrew
Rippin and Martin
Adam), is meant to convey the interconnections between
cultural (i.e., art), historical (i.e., artifacts), and social
(i.e., actors) items studied by scholars (i.e., the artifactors),
as well to indicate that the sites in wich scholars do their
work are themselves institutions that occupy specific cultural
and historical locations (i.e., the artifactory).
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The Artifactory will therefore be a reference resource intended
for newcomers to the field (e.g., students in the Department's
REL 100 classes), devoted to the concepts that allow
otherwise generic and mundane things to stand out as interesting
(i.e., making them into artifacts) and scholars who
use these concepts as their tools (i.e., artifactors).
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Books
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Wayne Booth et al., The
Craft of Research. 2nd ed. Univ of Chicago Press,
2003
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Scott Brown,
Guide to Writing Academic Essays in
Religious Studies. Continuum (UK), 2008 [Note:
this new book is not available until the end of February 2008
and we will be ordering it directly from the UK.]
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Kate Turabian et al. A
Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.
7th ed. 2007
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Raymond Williams, Keywords:
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Rev. edn., 1983.
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Readings
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Writing
about History (PDF)
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Writing
about Theory (PDF)
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Writing
Review Essays (PDF)
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JAAR Presentations
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Below are PDF readings from the Journal of the American
Academy of Religion, to go along with student presentations
(posted in alphabetical order of presenters).
Consult your copy of the sign-up sheet to determine which
readings will be presented on which day of class.
Note: Review Essays have been removed from the presentation
requirement.
A = Article and BR = Book Review
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Kocku
von Stuckrad, Reenchanting Nature" (Rhodes Berry
A)
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Anne
Monius, Review of Lance Nelson (ed.), Purifying the Earthly
Body of God (Rhodes Berry BR)
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Lonnie
Kliever, "Fictive Religion" (Amanda Bridges
A)
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Jack
R. Sibley, Review of E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley,
Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture
(Amanda Bridges BR)
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Wendy
Doniger O'Flaherty, "The Uses and Misuses of Other People's
Myths" (Megan Caniglia A)
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Robert
Segal, Review of William Doty, Mythography (Megan
Caniglia BR)
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Reuven
Firestone, "Holy War in Modern Judiasm?" (Geoff
Davidson A)
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Samuel
Elolia, Review of Ben Knighton, The Vitality of Karamojong
Religion (Geoff Davidson BR)
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Gary
Laderman, "The Disney Way of Death" (Jaci Gresham
A)
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Elizabeth
Castelli, Review of Shmuel Shepkaru, Jewish Martyrs in
the Pagan and Christian Worlds (Jaci Gresham BR)
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Angela
Zito, "Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China"
(Dan Mullins A)
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James
Peacock, Review of Bruce Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears:
Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Life (Dan
Mullins BR)
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Robert
C. Fuller, "Spirituality in the Flesh: The Role of Discrete
Emotions in Religious Life" (Jenni Lee Shelton, A)
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Lisa
Sideris, Review of Rebecca Gould, At Home in Nature
(Jenni Lee Shelton, BR)
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Herbert
Berg, "Mythmaking in the African American Muslim Context"
(Kyle Williams A; note: Prof. Berg is lecturing on
our campus on April 14!)
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Ted
Trost, Review of James Bennett, Religion and the Rise of
Jim Crow in New Orleans (Kyle Williams BR)
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Robert
Geraci, "Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of
Artificial Intelligence" (Blane Young A)
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Joel
Harrington, Review of Amy Leonard, Nails in the Wall: Catholic
Nuns in Reformation Germany (Blane Young BR)
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