Course Description
Examines religion and globalization covering an introduction to the history of and the discourse on globalization and contemporary theorists and issues emerging in religion from globalization. Readings such as Giorgio Agamben, Oserhammel and Petersson, and Eboo Patel.
Athena Title
REL GLOBALIZATION
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Goal: To understand the history and discourse of globalization and how they intersect with religion Outcome: A demonstrated ability to write and speak about the variety of globalizations across time and the emergence of globalization in located places connected to particular religious practices. Goal: To understand the contemporary issues of globalization and their connection to technology, global capital, and postcolonialism. Outcome: A demonstrated ability to articulate the effects of globalization on the religious tradition one studies. Goal: To understand the arguments of the particular voices speaking about globalization, the discourses they invoke and the language they deploy. Outcome: To demonstrate an ability to articulate the arguments of three major theorists. Goal: To shape the thesis and dissertation process with some theoretical orientation or frame. Outcome: Thesis and dissertations that are theoretically as well as descriptively sound.
Topical Outline
This course will: 1. approach globalization from the point of view of historical instances of globalization, from the "cosmopolis" of the Hellenistic world to the modern technological configurations of globalization. 2. examine how the modern configuration of globalization is described by postmodern and postcolonial thinkers and the complications they see emerging in globalization. 3. analyze how the major traditions have worked with or reacted to globalization and what new religious movements have emerged in global culture. 4. look at the openings and impediments to inter-faith or ecumenical dialogue in these iterations of the global.
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