REL 490.001
Senior Capstone Seminar: Sacrifice Theory and Practice
M | 3:30-5:50 pm
Manly 210
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This semester REL 490 will focus on sacrifice. Moving between social theory and case studies we will ask a number of questions. What is a sacrifice? What is the social function of sacrifice? Where can we find sacrifice in the modern world? Thus, we will explore sacrifice as theory, practice, and rhetoric. (Required of Majors)
Michael J. Altman
- Office hours:
Monday, 12:30pm-1:30pm; Tuesday, 9:00am-10:00am, and by appointment.
- (205) 348-5271
- michael.altman@ua.edu

Readings
Bataille, Georges
Theory of Religion
Zone Books, 1992
0942299094
Bloch, Maurice
Prey Into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience
Cambridge University Press, 1991
0521423120
Hubert, Henri & Marcel Mauss
Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions
University of Chicago Press, 1981
0226356795
Wilson, Charles Reagan
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause
University of Georgia Press, 2009
0820334251