ANTH 8931 - Critical Discourses on Religion

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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What cultural, political, and historical forces collide to produce and organize a sphere named "religion" How might we think "religion" in i"actuality," as multiple, contested discourses and practices intervening in the present How is "religion" shaped through struggle in ways thresist and reproduce relations of domination How are notions and activities named "religion" mediated by gender, race, class, sexuality, andnation What history of the present can be written through an interrogation of religion in relation to colonization, globalization, nationalism, capitalism, subjectivity, bodies, terror, politics, ethics, secularism, and histories of thought What do these clashes in the present allow us to think, regarding identity, community, knowledge, culture, difference, and justice

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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