Ritual
in Religion & Culture
Rel
3022
Course Calendar
Texts
Assignments
Policies
Grading
Grades
Ritual websites--2004
Ritual websites--2002
Ritual websites--2001
Spontaneous Ritual--9/11
Body Ritual
Additional Bibliography
JAN 5 Introduction to course; syllabus, course policies
7
What is ritual?
READ: Grimes,
Introduction
12 Modes of ritual sensibility
14
Symbol and ritual
READ: Firth,
64; Hand, 197
19 MARTIN LUTHER KING--No School
21
Myth and ritual
READ: Leach,
39; Douglas, 68
26 Classifications of ritual
28
Ritual Characteristics
READ: Some'
DUE: Assignment
1
FEB 2
Functions of religious ritual
READ: Harris, 16; Lee, 20
4
Shamanistic ritual: spirit and vision
READ: Howells,
102; Brown, 110
9
Priestly ritual: liturgy and sacrament
READ: Turner, 89; Furer-Haimendorf,
97
DUE: Assignment 3, Part 1
11
Rites of passage
READ:
Grimes, Chapter 1
16
Ritual and psychology
READ: deRopp, 144; Bass, 181;
Pattison, 259;
Sagan, 384
18
Magic and Ritual
READ:
Levi-Strauss, 187; Brown,
324; del Guercio,
330; Singer, 390
23
Witchcraft and Wicca
READ:
Brain, 208; Orion,
243
25
Ancestors and Ritual
READ: Grimes,
Chapter 2
DUE: Assignment 3, Part
2
MAR 1
Ritual and culture
READ:
Puttick, 375; Lewis, 364
3
Rites of Passage: A Case
READ:
Grimes,
Chapter 5; Gordon,
56
8
Ritual, politics, and power
READ: Grimes,
Chapter 3
10
American civil religion
READ: Grimes,
Chapter 4
15 Ritual and the Third Reich
17
The body: beauty and perfection
READ: Dubitsch, 73
SPRING BREAK
29
A Case: Native
American ritual
READ: Slotkin,
130; Bergman, 168; Kehoe, 354
DUE: Assignment 4
Article
for Assn. 4
31 A Case: Christian ritual
APR
5
Ritual healing
READ: Kiev,
163; Wedenoja, 173
7
Ritualizing death
READ: Grimes, Chapter 4;Barber,
318;
Metcalf, 340
12
Sports as ritual: Super Bowl reports
READ: Gmelch, 293
DUE: Assignment 2
14
Ritual salvation: cults, sects, and revitalization;
ritual as cultural criticism
READ: Wallace, 348; Daugherty,
369;
Newsweek, 406
Notes:
"READ"
= to be read by date shown on syllabus
"DUE"
= to be handed in on the day shown on syllabus
Lehmann
& Myers Magic, Witchcraft, and
Religion
Grimes,
Ron Deeply
into the Bone
Some,
M. P.
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
The main text, Lehmann and Myers, is a collection of articles by
different authors. These are not generalized pieces that provide
an overview of the material being covered in the topic for the
day's class. Rather, they provide examples in practice of what is
being discussed or viewed in class.
GRADES Final grades will be determined as follows:
50%
written
work
Paper 1
10%
Assignment 1:1 15%
Assignment 1:2 15%
Short essay
10%
25%
quizzes
25%
class participation
(discussion, attendance, preparation, attitude, etc.)
No
incompletes! Failure
to turn in any assignment will result in a
grade of "F" for the course.
POLICIES
Continued enrollment
of a student in this course
implies a contractual agreement by the student
to abide by all course policies.
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for policies.