Week 2 - Deities; Renunciation
Wandering with Sadhus: ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BL1241.53.H385 2007Wandering with renouncers -- The body & Sādhu society -- The social structures of Sādhu life -- Hardwar: the ground of space -- Allahabad: the community in time -- Kathmandu: the body in place -- The culture of Hindu renunciation
Optional additional reading: pages 19-46 in The Samnyasa Upanisads.
- The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu scriptures on asceticism & renunciation byNOTE: Online access is limited to 1 simultaneous user
This comprises a translation and study of the largest single collection of mainstream Hindu texts that deal with asceticism and monasticism.
Week 3 - Myth; Science & Religion around the World
- Betwixt science and religion – East and West: Jesuits in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century southern IndiaChapter 8 of Science & Religion: East & West
- Marx Questions Religion (Films on Demand)video segment, 2 minutes
"Marx calls religion "the opiate of the people" that lulls them into a state of passivity. He rejects Hegel's idealism in favor of dialectical materialism. The dialectic of history will rest in communism."
Week 4 - Ritual; Judaism
Week 5 - Spaces; Islam & Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage in Islam: Tradition & Modern Practices by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BP187 2017Introduction: Beyond Hajj
Week 8 - Modernity; Max Weber; Edward Said
- Edward Said on OrientalismMedia Education Foundation, 1998, 40 minutes
"Based on Edward Said's influential book, On Orientalism, this engaging and lavishly illustrated video examines the context within which he conceived the book, as well as his cultural analysis of media representations of the Middle East and Islam. In a post-9/11 world, this video provides an indispensable perspective."
Week 9 - Post-Colonial Religion; Gregory Schopen
- Archaeology & Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism by Gregory SchopenHistory of Religions, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Aug., 1991), pp. 1-23
Week 10 - Post-Colonial Religion; Hinduism; Sufism
- Orientalism and the Modern Myth of "Hinduism" by Richard KingNumen, Vol. 46, No. 2 (1999), pp. 146-185
- Bargaining with Baraka: Persian Sufism, “Mysticism, ” and Pre-modern Politics by Omid SafiThe Muslim World, Vol. 90, No. 3‐4 (Sep 1990), pp. 259-288
Week 11 - Interfaith; Religious Diversity
- Storytelling as a key methodology for interfaith youth workby Eboo Patel, April Kunze, & Noah Silverman
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 43 no 2 Spr 2008, p 35-46
Week 12 - Pluralism
Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion by Call Number: UCF ARC MAIN ARC General Collection -- BL51.H488 1993ch4ck availability of print version
EPISTEMOLOGICAL: Religious Realism & Non-realism -- Religious Experience: Its Nature & Validity -- CHRIST & CHRISTIANITY: An Inspiration Christology -- The Logic of God Incarnate -- The Non-absoluteness of Christianity -- HINTS FROM BUDDHISM: The Buddha's Doctrine of the 'Undetermined Questions' -- Religion as 'Skilful Means' -- RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: A Personal Note -- Jews, Christians, Muslims: Do We All Worship the Same God? -- The Real & its Personae & Impersonae -- LIFE & DEATH: A Possible Conception of Life after Death
Week 13 - Exclusivism
The Invention of World Religions, or, How European universalism was preserved in the language of pluralism by Call Number: UCF ARC MAIN General Collection -- BL80.3.M27 2005NOTE: This title is not available for the UCF Libraries to purchase as an ebook.
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Week 15 - American Religion
War and the American Difference: theological reflections on violence and national identity by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BT 736.2.H38 2011NOTE: Online access is limited to a specific number of uses per year.
"How are American identity and America's presence in the world shaped by war, and what does God have to do with it? Esteemed theologian Stanley Hauerwas helps readers reflect theologically on war, church, justice, and nonviolence in this compelling volume, exploring issues such as how America depends on war for its identity, how war affects the soul of a nation, the sacrifices that war entails, and why war is considered "necessary," especially in America. He also examines the views of nonviolence held by Martin Luther King Jr. and C. S. Lewis, how Jesus constitutes the justice of God, and the relationship between congregational ministry and Christian formation in America."
