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Date
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Tentative Class Topics and Reading Assignments
I use the word
“tentative” literally because we may revise topics dependent upon student
interest. It is important to keep
checking on this page to see what changes may occur.
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1/20
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Introductions
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1/22
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Class Covenant and Review of materials on Blackboard and
my course
web site
- Fred Glennon, "Promoting Freedom, Responsibility,
Learning in the Classroom: The
Learning Covenant A Decade Later,” Teaching Theology and Religion,
2008, vol. 11 no. 1, pp 32–41. (This essay, on Blackboard, will provide
a framework for the pedagogical style I use in this class.)
- Read
Syllabus and Learning Covenant materials (learning covenant guidelines,
activity options) on Blackboard (http://blackboard.lemoyne.edu) or my web
page (http://web.lemoyne.edu/~glennon/rel300.htm).
Be ready to discuss them when we start class.
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Section I.
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Setting the Context
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1/27
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Why Religion and Healing?
- Edith Turner, “Taking
Seriously the Nature of Religious Healing in America,”
in Religion and Healing in America,
387-404.
- Horace Miner,
"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"
American Anthropologist (on Blackboard).
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1/29
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Religion
and Medicine as Cultural Systems
- Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Interpretation
of Cultures (Basic Books 1977), 87-125 (on Blackboard). (Click
here for
questions to help guide your reading of Geertz.)
- David Kinsley,
"The Ideology of Modern Medical Culture," in Health,
Healing, and Religion, 168-184 (on Blackboard)
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2/3
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Defining Illness and Health
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Kinsey, Health, Healing and Religion
(Prentice-Hall), chapter 8 (pp. 71-83 on electronic
reserve).Sered and Barnes, “Introduction,”
in Religion and Healing in America (3-26).
Supplemental Reading:
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, chapter 4 (50-63)
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2/5
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A Spectrum of Religion and Healing
- Martin Marty,
"Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations," in Religion and Healing in America Barnes
and Sered, 487-504
Learning Covenants Due
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Section II.
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Religion and Healing in Religious Groups
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2/10
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Mainline
Christian
- Bobbie McKay and
Lewis Musil, “The ‘Spiritual Healing
Project’: A Study of the Meaning
of Spiritual Healing in the United Church
of Christ,” in Religion and Healing in America, 49-57.
- Jennifer Hollis,
“Healing into Wholeness in the Episcopal Church,” in Religion and Healing in America,
89-101.
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2/12
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Sectarian Christian
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Claude Jacobs,
“Rituals of Healing in African American Spiritual Churches,” in Religion and Healing in America,
333-341.
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Stephie Mitchem, “’Jesus is My
Doctor”: Healing and Religion in
African American Women’s Lives,” in Religion
and Healing in America, 281-290.
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2/17
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Healing in Jewish and
Islamic Traditions
- Susan Sered, "Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon
New Forms of American Jewish Healing," in Religion and Healing
in America,
231-252. (Debbie
Friedman songs)
- Marcia Hermansen, "Dimensions of Islamic Religious
Healing in America,"
in Religion and Healing in America, 407-422.
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2/19
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Asian Religions (Buddhist
and Hindu)
- Paul Numrich, "Complementary and Alternative
Medicine in America's
'Two Buddhisms,'" in Religion and
Healing in America,
343-358.
- Prakash
Desai, "Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North
America," in Religion and Healing in America, 423-438.
- Ayurvedic
Medicine
- "How Yoga Heals,"
from Yoga Basics
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2/24
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
and Acupuncture
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2/26
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Vodun and Santeria
- Karen McCarthy Brown,
"Making Wanga: Reality
Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power," in
Religion and Healing in America,
173-194
Other readings TBA
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3/3
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New Age: Energy Healing and Wicca
- Robert Fuller, "Subtle
Energy and the American Metaphysical Tradition," in Religion and
Healing in America,
375-386.
- Scientific American
video, "Therapeutic
Touch"
- NIH, Reiki
Video
- Grove Harris,
"Healing in Feminist Wicca," in Religion and Healing in America,
253-263.
- J. Gordon Melton,
"Wicca,"
at Religious Tolerance.Org
- NIH, “Energy
Medicine: An Overview”
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3/5
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Metaphysical
Traditions
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Christian
Science Healing
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Mary Baker Eddy, “Science,
Theology, and Medicine,” in Science and Health (www. Spirituality.com)
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Christian
Science Healing Resources
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“Helping Others Recover from
Illness and Injuries,” Scientology Handbook (http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/SH6.HTM)
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3/9-3/13
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Spring Break (No Classes)
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Section
III.
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Healing
Persons and Places
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3/17
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Shamanism
- David Kinsley,
“Shamanic Healing,” (on electronic reserve and Blackboard)
- Phua
Xiong, et. al, "Hmong Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing
in America's
Urban Heartland," in Religion and Healing in America,
439-454.
- Shamanic
Healing
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3/19
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Saints and Faith Healers
- Robert Orsi, "The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in
Twentieth-Century American Catholicism," in Religion and Healing
in America,
29-48
- Gaston Espinosa,
"God Made a Miracle in My Life: Latino Pentecostal Healing in the
Borderlands," in Religion and Healing in America,
123-138.
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3/24
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Exorcists and
Exorcism
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Section
IV.
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Questions and
Ethical Issues Related to Religion, Healing, and Medicine
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3/26
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Pain, Suffering, Theodicy
- Jerome Groopman, "Matt" (on Blackboard)
- Arthur Frank,
"The Quest Narrative" (on Blackboard)
- Margaret E. Mohrmann, "Someone is Always Playing Job,"
62-79 (on Blackboard)
Supplemental Reading:
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Galanti, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures,
41-49.
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3/31
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Film Presentation (Wit)
- C.S. Lewis, A
Grief Observed (start reading)
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4/2
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Film Presentation and Book
Discussion
- C.S. Lewis, A
Grief Observed (finish reading)
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4/7
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Religious and Ethical Issues at the End of Life
- Daniel Callahan,
“Pursuing a Peaceful Death,” in The Troubled Dream of Life (Georgetown University Press 2000), 187-219
(on Blackboard)
- Edwin DuBose, "Spiritual
Care at the End of Life" Second Opinion (April 2002)
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4/9
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Easter Break (no class)
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4/14
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Religious Views of Sexuality
(Homosexuality)
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Tanya Erzen, "Sexual Healing: Self-Help and Therapeutic
Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement," in Religion and Healing in America,
265-280.
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4/16
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Medical
Rejections of Religious Practice
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4/21
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Religious
Rejections of Medical Practice
- "Healing by
Prayer not Medicine," excerpts from ReligiousTolerance.org (on
Blackboard)
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4/23
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The Faith Factor in Healing
- Jeff Levin, God,
Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection, chapter
1(on Blackboard).
(Final revisions for learning covenants)
(Ritual Observance Papers Due)
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4/28
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Ethical Issues
Surrounding Health Care Availability
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4/30
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(Last Day of Class)
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5/11
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Final Exam (12:00-2:30pm)
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