Religious Studies 200D: Proseminar in the History and Theory of Religion

Roger Friedland, Fall 2007

Monday 12-3, HSSB 3041

October 1: Introduction

October 8: Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, pp. 1-141, trans. by Richard Nice, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990). 0804720118

October 15: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, UC Press, 1987. 0520063295

October 22: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, (New York: Vintage, 1979). 0679752552

October 29: Philip S. Gorski, The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). 0226304841

November 5: Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality, Volume II, (New York: Vintage, 1985). 0394751221

November 12: Mahmood, Saba, 2005, Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Berkeley: U.C. Press. 0691086958

November 19: Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion, (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 228-298. 0415924014

November 26: Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998). 0804732183

December 3: Comparison and Conundrums