Themes in the Anthropology of Religion and Secularism
Term:
Fall 2008
Subject Code:
GANT
Course Number:
6358
This seminar examines three interlocking themes: 1) the conceptualization of religion itself as a distinctly *human* phenomenon within the anthropological tradition, 2) the role of notions of individual and collective autonomy in modern secularism, and 3) religious practices that trouble any moral psychology in which human autonomy is a paramount value.
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