Seminar in Historical Analysis (405-0-24)

Topic

Intellectual and Social Histories of Religion

Instructors

Sean Hanretta
Harris Hall 310

Meeting Info

Harris Hall room 101: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Intellectual and Social Histories of Religion: Reading seminar. Overview of main approaches to religious history; theory and methods. No specific geographic or temporal focus. Read several articles/book chapters per week, prepare weekly reading responses, a book review, and a final essay (either a "review essay"-type assessment of two recent books or a historiographic essay on a theme).

Registration Requirements

Instructor Consent

Learning Objectives

Understand foundaitonal and recent approaches to religious history. Ability to extract and assess an argument from a scholarly work. Understanding of the sources and methods of religious history, the use of interdiciplinary theory. Improve writing.

Class Notes

History Major Concentration(s): Global