Fall 2024 Religion GU4217 section 001

American Religions in extremis

American Religions in ext

Call Number 10525
Day & Time
Location
W 4:10pm-6:00pm
201 80 Claremont Ave
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Courtney Bender
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This seminar focuses on historical, sociological, and first-hand accounts of a diverse set of American non-conformist religious and spiritual groups (including MOVE, the Branch Davidians at Waco, Father Divine's International Peace Mission, the Oneida Perfectionists, and Occupy and others). Diverse in their historical origins, their activities, and their ends, each of the groups sought or seeks to offer radically news ways of living, subverting American gender, sexuality, racial, or economic norms. The title of this seminar highlights the ways that these groups explain their reasons for existing (to themselves or others) not as a choice but as a response to a system or society out of whack, at odds with the plans of the divine, or at odds with nature and survival. Likewise, it considers the numerous ways that these same groups have often found themselves the targets of state surveillance and violence.

Web Site Vergil
Department Religion
Enrollment 16 students (20 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, November 7, 2024
Subject Religion
Number GU4217
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20243RELI4217W001