Reading List for 4365
Fall, 2009
I. Sociology of Religion
“Why We Became Religious and the Evolution of the Spirit World”
“The Study of Mythology”
Monahan, et al – Introduction and Part 1 – “Classic Sociological
Definitions of Religion” (pp 1-29)
“Science and the Sacred”
“Introduction to Belief and Ritual” by Monihan, in Monihan, et al, Part II
“Scientists and Religion in
“Madness about a Method”
“The Secularization Debate” – Part VIII of Monihan, et al. (pp. 196 – 224)
“Science and Religion” – Part XIII in Monihan, et al. (pp. 374 -398)
“Postmodern Culturalism and Scientific Illiteracy” AND “Science in an Old Testament Style”
“Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings” – Toumey
“Civil Religion in
Part II
II. Bogus Science, Fantastic
Science, and Religion
“Noah’s
“Two Paranormalisms, or Two and a Half”
“The Scholars and the Goddess”
“Wiccans v. Creationists”
“Gender and Religion,” Part IV of Monihan et al. (pp.115 - 143)
“Angels” by Kenneth Woodward, in Monihan et al, Part III
“Educational Experience and Belief in Paranormal Phenomena”
“Introduction to Religious Experience” by MacDonald, in Monihan, et
al, Part III
“Science as a Cultural Construct”
“Voting in Science”
“The Treatment of Theory in Textbooks”
III. Science, Religion, and
Social Change
“Anti-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: Struggling with the
cultural significance of new religious movements”
“Islam” -- found online at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/religion/islam/home.html
Arabic Science and the Islamic World
Reason and Rationality in Islam and the West
“How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science”
“Foreign Policy’s Faux Pas”
Read two posts from blog at http://scienceandreligion.blogspot.com/
“Study: Religiosity of Humanities Students Most Likely to Wane
and
“This Just In: College will Make You an Atheist
Material above this line will
appear on Exam 1
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"A Short History of Halloween" - found at:
http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/features/halloween.html
IV. Apocalyptic Religion
“The End: How it Got that Way”
“Apocalyptic Theory Revitalized by Attacks”
“The End of the World”
V. Satanic Panics
“The Demonology of Satanism: An Anthropological View”
“Nightmares on
VI. More Fantastic and/or
Bogus Science
“UFOs, Why Do We Believe?”
“Paucity of Aliens”
“Alien Abduction? Science Calls It Sleep Paralysis”
“Creating False Memories”
“The Fellowship of the Rings”
“Divining the Social Order”
VII. Effects of Race, Class,
and Gender
Science, Technology, and Black Community Development
“Race, Ethnicity, and Religion” – Part IV of Monihan, et al (pp. 78
-114)
School Daze
They Were Not Here Before
VIII. Science and Technology
in International Perspective
Where Faith Grows: Fire by Pentecostalism – 3rd world
Ethical Investing: Monsanto Terminator Technology
How Evangelicals become
“Social Class and Religion” – Part VI of Monihan, et al. (pp. 144 – 172)
IX. Creationism, Evolution,
and Intelligent Design
The Genesis of Creationism
Antievolutionism and Creationism
in the
(Online) “Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History magazine.
See: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html
Material
above this line will appear on Exam 2
The battle for American science
Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians
X. Science, Religion, and
Politics
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: Scientific Integrity in Policy Making
Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change will Destroy Us
Brainstorm: Energy Security – How to Kick the Oil Habit
“Alternative Religions” – Part X of Monihan, et al. (pp. 258 –
303)
Politics, Science, Morality of Stem Cell Issue
“Politics and Religion” – Part XII in Monihan, et al. (pp. 337 –
373)
Cell wars – stem cell research
Science, Culture, and Politics
Panel Identifies Gene-Altered Animals' Risk
Opposition to nanotechnology
Our Posthuman Future