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Date Time Activity Session Leader Reading Assignment
Sunday, June 22, 2003
  Grantee arrival
   
 
Monday, June 23, 2003
1000h
Welcome
Wade Clark Roof, Holly Grether, Shawn Landres
 
1400h
Campus Tour and Residency Orientation
Holly Grether
 
 
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
930h
Academic Orientation
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
"Marty, Martin E. ""Revising the Map of American Religion."" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science."
1330h
Library Orientation
TBA
 
 
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
930h
Religious Studies as a Discipline
Wade Clark Roof
"1. Smart, Ninian. ""Introduction."" Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World Beliefs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
2. Hecht, Richard D. ""Religious Studies"" (Institute Reader)
3. Orsi, Robert A. ""Is the Study of Lived Religion Irrelevant to the World We Live In?"" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42:2 (2002), 169-174."
1300h Workshop on Teaching Methods, Resources and Curriculum Design Catherine L. Albanese, Richard D. Hecht, and Melissa Wilcox Please visit and review the websites of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/) and the American Academy of Religion Syllabus Project (http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/default.asp). Please print and bring to class one syllabus on Religion in America that interests you in particular.
Optional
Visit to Downtown Santa Barbara and the Harbor
   
 
Thursday, June 26, 2003 930h History of American Religion 1 -- The Original Traditions Catherine L. Albanese Albanese, Catherine L. America: Religions and Religion. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999. Part One.
1330h
History of American Religion 2 -- Newmade in America
Catherine L. Albanese
 
 
Friday, June 27, 2003 930h History of American Religion 3 -- The Public Face of Religion Catherine L. Albanese "1. Albanese, Catherine L. America: Religions and Religion. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999. Part Two.
2. Marty, Martin E. ""Public Religion."" (Institute Reader)"
1330h Demography and Sociology of Religion in the U.S. 1 -- The New Pluralism Wade Clark Roof Eck, Diana L. A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. pp. xiii-79 and 294-386.
 
Monday, June 30, 2003 930h Church-State Relations and Civil Religion 1 -- American Civil Religion Phillip E. Hammond Hammond, Phillip E. With Liberty for All: Freedom of Religion in the United States. Louisville: Westminster Press, 1998. Chapters 5-6.
1300h Towards an Americanized Islam? A Look at the Impact of Globalization and Indigenization Juan Campo "1. Smith, Jane I. Islam in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. pp. 50-103.
2. Cornell, Vincent J. ""Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: The Relationship between Faith and Practice in Islam."" In Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 65-106.
3. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck. ""The Globalization of Islam: The Return of Muslims to the West."" In Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 601-640."
 
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
930h
Church-State Relations and Civil Religion 2 -- Church-State Relations

Phillip E. Hammond
Hammond, Phillip E. With Liberty for All: Freedom of Religion in the United States. Louisville: Westminster Press, 1998. Chapters 1-4.
1300h Contemporary Trends in American Jewish Life Richard D. Hecht Mittleman, Alan, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Robert Licht, eds. Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. pp. ix-9 and 235-387.
 
Wednesday, July 02, 2003 930h Culture Wars 1 -- U.S. Politics Melissa Wilcox "1. Wolfe, Alan. One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other. New York: Viking Press, 2000.
2. Ingersoll, Julie J. ""Televangelism"" (Institute Reader)"
1330h
Culture Wars 2 -- Religious Nationalism and Global Politics

Mark Juergensmeyer
Juergensmeyer, Mark. "Introduction: Terror and God." Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Updated edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Available online at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8874/8874.ch01.html
    
Thursday, July 03, 2003
AM
Individual Study and Research


 
1330h New Religious Movements
J. Gordon Melton
"1. Olson, Roger E. ""Born-Again Christians."" (Institute Reader)
2. Shibley, Mark A. ""Contemporary Evangelicals: Born-Again and World-Affirming."" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
3. Melton, J. Gordon. ""Another Look at New Religions."" (Institute Reader)"
    
Friday, July 04, 2003
  U.S. Independence Day Holiday -- program details to be announced
   
        
Saturday, July 05, 2003
  Study Tour 1 -- Salt Lake City
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
        
Sunday, July 06, 2003
  Study Tour 1 -- Salt Lake City
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
        
Monday, July 07, 2003
  Study Tour 1 -- Salt Lake City
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
        
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Morning
Individual Study and Research
   
1230h
Religion and Multiethnicity in Los Angeles
David Machacek
Orr, John B. , Donald E, Miller, Wade Clark Roof, and J. Gordon Melton. Politics of the Spirit: Religion and Multiethnicity in Los Angeles. University of Southern California, 1994.
Afternoon
Visit to the Old Mission of Santa Barbara
   
    
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
930h
Religion, Civic Groups, and Faith-Based Initiatives
Wade Clark Roof, J. Gordon Melton, and David Machacek
"1. Putnam, Robert. ""Bowling Alone."" (Institute Reader)
2. Butler-Bass, Diana. ""Faith."" (Institute Reader)"
1330h
Journalists Look at Southern California's Religious Pluralism
Rhonda Parks-Manville
Please visit and review the website of the The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/ -- and please read the latest issue of Religion in the News (available online at the website).
    
Thursday, July 10, 2003
  Study Tour 2 -- Los Angeles
Shawn Landres, David Machacek
 
    
Friday, July 11, 2003
  Study Tour 2 -- Los Angeles
Shawn Landres, David Machacek
 
    
Saturday, July 12, 2003
  Study Tour 2 -- Los Angeles
Shawn Landres, David Machacek
 
    
Sunday, July 13, 2003
  Study Tour 2 -- Los Angeles
Shawn Landres, David Machacek
 
    
Monday, July 14, 2003
  Study Tour 2 -- Los Angeles
Shawn Landres, David Machacek
"1. Machacek, David. ""Prosperity Theology."" (Institute Reader)
2. Steward Hoover. ""Megachurch."" (Institute Reader)
3. Diaz-Stevens, Ana Maria, and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, ""Popular Religion."" (Institute Reader)"
    
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Morning
Individual Study and Research
   
1330h
"Religion and Region 2 -- The Apostle (film)"

Richard D. Hecht
"""1. Blumhofer, Edith L. """"Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity."""" (Institute Reader)
2. Finch, Martha L. """"Body."""" (Institute Reader)""
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
930h
Native Americans and African-Americans
Rudy Busto, Suzanne Crawford
 
1330h
Asian-American Religions
Paul Spickard
"1. Eck, Diana L. A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. pp. 80-221.
2. Yang, Fengang. ""Chinese American Religions."" (Institute Reader)
3. Spickard, Paul. ""Japanese Religions."" (Institute Reader)"
Optional
Concert at the Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara
   
    
Thursday, July 17, 2003
930h
The Growing Public Presence of Latinos
Rudy Busto, Juan Campo
"1. Diaz-Stevens, Ana Maria. ""Latino Traditions."" (Institute Reader)
2. Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M. ""The Latino Religious Resurgence."" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science."
1330h
Congregations

Wade Clark Roof
"1. Ammerman, Nancy T. ""Congregation."" (Institute Reader)
2. Miller, Donald E. ""Postdenominational Christianity in the Twenty-First Century."" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science."
    
Friday, July 18, 2003
All Day
Individual Study and Research
   
        
Monday, July 21, 2003

930h
Demography and Sociology of Religion in the U.S. 2 -- Social Profiles of Religious Groups and the Changing Role of Women

Melissa Wilcox
 
Afternoon Individual Study and Research

   
    
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
930h
Religion and Film 2 -- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Richard D. Hecht
 
1330h
Religion and Film 3 -- Religious Themes in American Film
Richard D. Hecht
 
    
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
All Day
Individual Study, Research, and Packing
   
    
Thursday, July 24, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Indianapolis
Wade Clark Roof, David Machacek
 
    
Friday, July 25, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Indianapolis
Wade Clark Roof, David Machacek
 
    
Saturday, July 26, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Indianapolis/Atlanta
Wade Clark Roof, David Machacek  
    
Sunday, July 27, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Atlanta
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
    
Monday, July 28, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Atlanta
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
    
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Atlanta
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
"1. Laderman, Gary. ""Southern Religion."" (Institute Reader)
2. Harrison, Milmon F. ""African-American Religions."" (Institute Reader)"
    
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Atlanta/Washington, DC
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
    
Thursday, July 31, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Washington, DC
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
    
Friday, August 01, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Washington, DC
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
PM
Grantee Debriefing, US State Department
   
        
Saturday, August 02, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Washington, DC
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
    
Sunday, August 03, 2003
  Study Tour 3 -- Washington, DC
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 
1300h
Farewell Brunch
   
        
Monday, August 04, 2003
  Grantee Departure
Wade Clark Roof, Shawn Landres
 

 

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