Cognitive Approaches to Religion
Religious Studies 202
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2002
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Directions: Everyone should sign up in one box under "Discussion Leader" and in one box under "Respondant". |
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| Sept 9 | First Day
No Assignment |
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| Sept 11 | Bloch, "Language, Anthropology" and
MIT Encyclopedia of the Cog. Sci. |
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| Sept 16 | Freud
The Future of an Illusion |
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| Sept 18 | Sperber, Rethinking Symbolism, Preface, Ch. 1-3 | (1) | (1) |
| Sept 23 | Sperber, Rethinking Symbolism,
Ch. 4-5 |
(2) Erica M. | (2) Maddie U. |
| Sept 25 | Lawson and McCauley, Rethinking Religion, Ch. 4 iii | (3) Maddie U. | (3) Daniel Q. |
| Sept 25 | Toren
"Thinking Symbols" |
(4) | (4) |
| Sept 30 | Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method, Preface and Ch. 1 | (5) Danny K. | (5) |
| Sept 30 | Schmaus, "Functionalism and the Meaning of Social Facts" | (6) | (6) |
| Oct 2 | Sperber, "Issues in the Ontology of Culture" and "Culture and Matter" | (7) | (7) |
| Oct 7 | Sperber, "Interpreting and Explaining" and "The Epidemiology of Beliefs" | (8) Azim H. | (8) Danny K. |
| Oct 9 | Sperber, "Anthropology and Psychology" and "Modularity" | (9) Abby L. | (9) Rebecca Ber. |
| Oct 14 | Whitehouse
"Jungles and Computers" |
(10) Susie F. | (10) Peter W. |
| Oct 16 | Boyer
Ch. 1 (pp. 3-28) |
(11) Adi S. | (11) |
| Oct 21 | Boyer
Ch. 2-3 (pp. 29-88) |
(12) Stephanie S. | (12) Ben B. |
| Oct 23 | Boyer
Ch. 4 (pp. 91-124) |
(13) Ben B. | (13) Stephanie S. |
| Oct 28 | Boyer
Ch. 5-6 (pp. 125-184) |
(14) | (14) Joshua E. |
| Oct 30 | Boyer
Ch. 7 (pp. 185-223) |
(15) Kari M. | (15) Abby L. |
| Nov 4 | Boyer
Ch. 8-9 (pp. 227-296) |
(16) Rebecca Ber. | (16) Ryan M. |
| Nov 6 | Benavides, "Cognitive and Ideological Aspects of Divine Anthropomorphism" | (17) Jessica K. | (17) Pam R. |
| Nov 6 | Barrett, "Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine" | (18) Peter W. | (18) Susie F. |
| Nov 11 | Staal
"The Meaninglessness of Ritual" |
(19) Pamela R. | (19) Kari M. |
| Nov 13 | Lawson-McCauley, Ch. 4 iv - 5
(pp. 77-136) |
(20) Joshua E. | (20) Danie G. |
| Nov 18 | Lawson-McCauley, Ch. 6-7
(pp. 137-184) |
(21) | (21) Azim H. |
| Nov 20 | Humphrey-Laidlaw, Ch. 1-2
(pp. 1-63) |
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| Nov 25 | Class Cancelled
for AAR |
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| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving
Break |
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| Dec 2 | Humphrey-Laidlaw, Ch. 3-4
(pp. 64-110) |
(23) Danie G. | (23) Jessica K. |
| Dec 4 | Humphrey-Laidlaw, Ch. 5-6
(pp. 111-166) |
(24) Ryan M. | (24) David B. |
| Dec 9 | Humphrey-Laidlaw, Ch. 7-8, 12
(pp. 167-210, 260-268) |
(25) | (25) |