REL 511

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Seminar in Study of Religion

Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of select topics or issues in the study of religion.

May be repeated in the same or separates terms as topics vary.

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REL 511 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	68627	Online	BR	3:00PM -5:30PM	M	n.a.		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Title: Intro to Political Theology Section Info: The study of political theology is focused on the concept of sovereignty as both a human and a divine institution. The course examines its roots in the Hebrew Bible and traces how it changes from antiquity to modernity, especially in the context of the racialized post-1492 nation state. Readings include (whole or selections): Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution; John Gager, Community and Kingdom; Ernst Kantorowitz, The King’s Two Bodies; Baruch Spinoza, Political-Theological Treatise; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; Max Stirner, The Ego and its Own; Karl Marx, The German Ideology; Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and Land and Sea; Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended; Sylvia Wynter, Unsettling the Coloniality of Being.