REL 511

Spring 2024 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 16-May 1

Seminar in Study of Religion

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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 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	68627	Lecture-Discussion	ST	3:00PM -5:30PM	M	135 English Building	Thurston, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Title: Crime, Punishment, Redemption Section Info: The criminal-penal system in the United States is a complex web of mutually reinforcing institutions, practices, and moral values. Furthermore, ideas about what constitutes a crime (or harm) and what punishment is due have shifted over time. Beginning in the 1980s, the United States entered an era of what is commonly called mass incarceration. In short, this country incarcerates more people than any other and has the highest incarceration rate. What’s more, the institutions that police and confine individuals are myriad: sheriffs, ICE, local jails, CPB, and federal and state prisons. Broadly, this course aims to foster a deep analysis of the U.S. criminal-penal system. First, this requires analyzing how its policies, practices, and moral values intersect with social categories like race, ethnicity, gender, class, and citizenship status. Importantly, this course focuses on the religious concepts that have informed our moral imaginations, which in turn, inform the social practices we enact and the institutions we build and maintain. Further, the course materials explore the religious concepts that have informed social and political resistance against our criminal-penal system. Finally, this course takes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing from multiple disciplines, including: history, sociology, theology and ethics.