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Centre Congregational Church, BrattleboroPOSC 6223 Seminar in Religion and Politics, fall 2012: Schedule

  Introduction
22 AUG Demerath, Preface, 1-9. 247-52
27 AUG S.P. Huntington. Summer 1993. The clash of civilizations? Foreign affairs 72 #3:22-49. [Available from Academic Search Complete]
  See America First
29 AUG

U.S.Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Affiliation: Diverse and Dynamic(February 2008). Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

U.S.Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Diverse and Politically Relevant (June 2008). Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

3 SEP Labor Day
5 SEP R. Finke & R. Stark. 1988. Religious economies and sacred canopies: Religious mobilization in American cities, 1906, American sociological review 53: 41-49.
  If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium
10 SEP Demerath, chaps 1-2
12 SEP Demerath, chaps 3-5
17 SEP Demerath, chaps 6-8
  The Secularlization Hypothesis
19 SEP Norris & Inglehart, chaps 1-3
24 SEP Norris & Inglehart, ch 4
26 SEP Norris & Inglehart, ch 5
  Sectarian politics
1 OCT

G.J. Bryjak. 1986. Collective violence in India, Asian affairs 13: 35-55.

V.R. Nasr. 2000. International politics, domestic imperatives, and identity mobilization: Sectarianism in Pakistan, 1979-1998, Comparative politics 32: 171-90.

R.E. Heilman & P.J. Kaiser. 2002. Religion, identity and politics in Tanzania, Third world quarterly 23:691-709.

3 OCT

H. Anseri. 1984. Sectarian conflict in Egypt and the political expediency of religion, Middle East Journal 38: 397-418.

E. Crighton & M.A. Mac Iver. 1991. The evolution of protracted ethnic conflict: group dominance and political underdevelopment in Northern Ireland and LebanonComparative politics 23: 147-72.

  Is the Church catholic?
8 OCT Manuel, et al, eds.
10 OCT Analytical/theoretical Paper on Catholic Church due
  Fundamentals
17 OCT Almond et al., 1-144
24 OCT Almond et al., 145-243
29 OCT

C. Wilcox. 1988. The Christian Right in twentieth century America: Continuity and change, Review of politics 50: 659-681

C. Wilcox. 1986. Evangelicals and fundamentalists in the New Christian Right: Religious differences in the Ohio Moral Majority, Journal for the scientific study of religion 25: 355-363.

5 NOV K. Wald. 2002. The religious dimension of Israeli political life. Pp. 99-122 in T.G. Jelen & C. Wilcox, eds., Religion and politics in comparative perspective (Cambridge University Press).
7 NOV Norris & Inglehart, ch 6
  Effects of religion on political values and behaviors
14 NOV Norris & Inglehart, chaps 7-8
26 NOV Norris & Inglehart, chaps 9-10
  Presentations
28 NOV Seminar papers due
3 DEC  

 

 

 
 

 

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