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Religion Seminar, Semester 1, 2012

In semester 1, 2012, the Religion seminar will again take the form of a reading group. The book under discussion will be the collection edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair entitled Secularism & Religion-Making (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). One copy of the book will be available on close reserve in the University Library. The reading group will meet on the dates below, at 1pm in room 4C11 in the Arts Building, and all are welcome to join the discussions. The first discussion will be preceded by a short introduction to recent work on secularism, by Will Sweetman.

9 Mar

Chs. 1 & 2

pp. 3-61

Dressler and Mandir: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular

King: Imagining Religions in India

23 Mar

Chs. 3 & 4

pp. 62-103

Mandair: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism

Mas: On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time

20 Apr

Chs. 5 & 6

pp. 104-40

Goldstone: Secularism, “Religious Violence,” and the Liberal Imaginary

Mitchell: The Politics of Spirituality

4 May

Chs. 7 & 8

pp. 141-86

Hicks: Indo-Persian “Mysticism” to Liberal Islamic Modernity

Johnson: Apache Revelation

18 May

Chs. 9 & 10

pp. 187-225

Dressler: Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse

Elmore: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion

1 June

Chs. 11-12

pp. 226-68

Turner: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion

Nijhawan: Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse

For further information please contact the convenor of the seminar, Will Sweetman.

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De Carle Lectures

James Cox, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed to a De Carle Distinguished Lectureship and will be hosted by the Department in semester 1, 2012. Details of his public lectures will be posted here shortly.

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