Readings  

(Hard copy versions are available at the Olin Library Reserve Room)

(Links will connect you to Online Reserve Desk)

September

G. Gorenberg, The End of Days

J. Esposito, Unholy War

Smith, Imagining Religion, “The Devil in Mr. Jones”

J. Smith, “Religion, Religions, Religious”

R. McCutcheon, Critics Not Caretakers

B. Lincoln, “Reflections on ‘Theses on Method’” 

S. Caldwell, “Introduction: Who Speaks for Hinduism?”

B. Smith, ‘Who Does, Can, and Should Speak for Hinduism.”

V. Narayanan, “Diglossic Hinduism”

J. Thatamanil, “Managing Multiple Religious and Scholarly Identities”

October

S. Heilman, The People of the Book; (only available in hard copy)

S. Heilman, Defenders of the Faith; (only available in hard copy)

L. Fine, Judaism in Practice

B. Sproul, Primal Myths

M. Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return

C. Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System”

T.  Assad, Genealogies of Religion

November

A. Dubus, Broken Vessels

J. Smith, “The Bare Facts of Ritual”

S. Cohen, The Beginnings of Jewishness

R. Schindler, The Trauma of Transition (only available in hard copy)

V. Brereton, From Sin to Salvation