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POSC 6223 Seminar in Religion and Politics, fall 2012: Schedule
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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] |
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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. |
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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 |
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The Secularlization Hypothesis |
19 SEP |
Norris & Inglehart, chaps 1-3 |
24 SEP |
Norris & Inglehart, ch 4 |
26 SEP |
Norris & Inglehart, ch 5 |
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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 Lebanon, Comparative politics 23: 147-72. |
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Is the Church catholic? |
8 OCT |
Manuel, et al, eds. |
10 OCT |
Analytical/theoretical Paper on Catholic Church due |
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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 |
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Effects of religion on political values and behaviors |
14 NOV |
Norris & Inglehart, chaps 7-8 |
26 NOV |
Norris & Inglehart, chaps 9-10 |
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Presentations |
28 NOV |
Seminar papers due |
3 DEC |
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