Spring 2025 Religion GR6617 section 001

Religion & Space

Call Number 00785
Day & Time
Location
R 12:10pm-2:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor David L Moerman
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

Emplacement is often taken as the unspoken background of the study of religious phenomena. This seminar considers how problematizations of space, place, locality, and geography may cast religious phenomena in a new light. Approaches to theorizing space and place from various disciplines such as geography, cultural anthropology, philosophy, literature, art history, and history of cartography will be brought into conversation with questions emerging within the study of specific religion traditions. 

While this seminar is open to interested students from all disciplines, our work in this course specifically falls into the “zone of inquiry” of “space and place” of the Religion Department’s graduate programs. “Zones of inquiry” seek to introduce students to a particular cluster of key concepts and various theoretical elaborations of those concepts, in order to aid students in honing their ability to reflect critically on and develop further the central concepts that they derive from and bring to the specific traditions and phenomena that they study in their own research. A main goal of this course will therefore be to deepen our conceptual and analytical acumen and expand our theoretical resources at the intersection of religious studies and theories of space, place, and geography.

Web Site Vergil
Department Asian and Middle East @Barnard
Enrollment 14 students (15 max) as of 5:05PM Sunday, December 8, 2024
Subject Religion
Number GR6617
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Note Max Moerman class will meet in 80 Claremont Room 101
Section key 20251RELI6617G001