Religion 254 - Sacrifice,Gift,and Exchange in Religious,Gift,and Market Economies

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. This course will explore the religious significance of three different types of social transactions-exchanges, gifts, and sacrifices-in relation to different social contexts, such as families, communities, and congregations. How do religions variously construe these transactions, and, specifically, how do they relate individual motivations to complex systemic effects and unintended consequences The readings in this course will cover a cross-section of the most influential writing on these topics, including texts by Adam Smith, Marx, Simmel, Hubert and Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Bourdieu, and Appadurai. In addition, we will have frequent recourse to detailed ethnographic case studies in order to test the explanatory power of different theories. Prerequisite: one 100-level course in religion. Lecture-conference.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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