An introduction to developments in religious thought and practice since 1800, with special emphasis on topics of current controversy, including the status of women, the nature of government, and the place of Islamic law. Open to all classes. Dist: TMV; WCult: NW.
20.1. (10) Foundational Figures in the Study of Religion (Instructor: Reinhart)
In this course we will read the works of a number of the "greats"-Tylor, Durkheim, Freud, Weber, among others-who shaped the modern, scholarly study of religion. We will also read critical literature on their work. The course is designed to give students a grounding in the methods and approaches taken for granted in the field of the study of religion. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Dist: TMV.
74 (10A) Providence and Empire: Religious Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1780-1920 (Instructor: Stewart Jay Brown - Edinburgh Visitor)
In this course, we will consider religion and culture in Britain, Ireland and the empire during the period of Britain?s world pre-eminence. We will explore the churches? responses to industrial poverty; romanticism and the Oxford Movement; the Irish famine, Ireland?s ?devotional revolution? and rise of Protestant Unionism in Ulster; the new biblical approaches, the impact of Darwinism, and the interactions of Christian missions and other world faiths within the empire. We will give particular attention to changing perceptions of providence and national identity.
