Class 5:45-9 Contemporary Paganism
- 8 Essays out of 12
Week 1 - self into essay- Week 2 - theories of NRMs
- Week 6 - theories of Paganism
- Week 7 - Ásatrú: Modern Norse-Germanic Paganism.
- Week 8 - Druidry: Modern Celtic Paganism
- Week 9: Baltic Paganism: Romuva in Lithuania and Dievturi in Latvia
- Week 10: Goddess Religion and Feminist Witchcraft.
- Week 11: Santería: An Afro-Cuban New Religious Movement.
- Week 12 - Politics and Paganism
- 500 words, 11pt font, Times new Roman, 1.5 spacing
******How he wants them Written:
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Week #: Subject
Student: Lisa "Pixie" Sawyer
Date:
Title of Essay
- First paragraph: Introduction. Explain what the week’s topic(s) was/were about, in a general way, then briefly describe what you will be writing about.
- Info-summary paragraph #1. Explore something from one of the readings, including stating which reading or author you are drawing upon.
- Info-summary paragraph #2. Explore something from another one of the readings, including stating which reading or author you are drawing upon.
- Info-summary paragraph #3. Explore something from yet another one of the readings, or something further from a reading already commented upon, including stating which reading or author you are drawing upon.
- Personal reaction/commentary/reflections: 1 or 2 paragraphs in which you provide your personal perspective on or reaction to something in the readings, or on the week’s topic in general. Use language like “I think that…” , “It seems to me…”, “In my opinion.” Forget your past English class training that discouraged personal viewpoint. Here, it is valued and needed!
Art, Religion, and Culture... none of the materials are accessible yet.
- - 2 reflective papers needed
- - final proposal & Annotated bibliography
- - final project
- - final project presentation
*No Due dates???
**** BRUHHHH she doesn't release the readings until after class.... so you can't work ahead...... what the FUCK
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School Start
Saturday 5/10
Mothers Day With Mom
Sunday 5/11
Week 1 Lecture: Introductions - 1hr 8 min- Watch: (links provided elsewhere): excerpts from Cults: Explained (Netflix);
- Link was not provided
- Watch: The Source Family Part One (there is no definite division of Part One and Part Two, but it is suggested to watch half of video this week and half the next)
- Link was not provided
Essay 1: Autobiography paper
Week 1
Monday 5/12
- GYM AT 5:30
- She hasn't posted the PDF's....the way she structures them she posts the reading after class.... to read before the next week. meaning we can't work ahead....
- Cool. I'm too tired anyway
Tuesday 5/13
Week 2 Lecture: Theories of NRMs (New Religious Movements) - 1.5 hoursSalibi, Understanding NRMs, Chapters 1 & 2 (64 pgs)
Wednesday 5/14
Salibi, Understanding NRMs, Chapters 3 & 4 (76 pages)Discussion/Bulletin BoardEssay 2: Week 2 - theories of NRMs
Thursday 5/15
- MOVING DAY ROUND 1
- Class 5:45-9 ---> just plan on it being at work.
Friday 5/16
- unpack and relax.
Saturday 5/17
Sunday 5/18
Watch: Interview with British sociologist Eileen Barker, “What Are New Religious Movements?”Watch: The Source Family (Part Two)- Links not provided.
Week 2
Monday 5/19
- GYM AT 5:30
bell hooks, "Beauty Laid Bare: Aesthetics in the Ordinary" [PDF]
Tuesday 5/20
- --- he hasn't posted any of the readings.... but I found one through JOSTR:
Daniel A. Metraux, “Religious Terrorism in Japan: The Fatal Appeal of Aum Shinrikyo.” Watch Week 3 Lecture: Asian NRMs - 1.15 hrRonald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith, “Introduction.” p. 1-18 in Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord [PDF available]
Wednesday 5/21
- Read: Michael Strmiska, “Eastern Religions in Eastern Europe: Three Case Studies from Lithuania” (regarding Hare Krishna (ISKCON) and Diamond Way movements, also Lithuanian Pagan movement Romuva);
- Read: Nick Humez, “Hare Krishna” (Encyclopedia of Pop Culture article)
Thursday 5/22
- Class 5:45-9
Discussion/Bulletin board
Friday 5/23
- Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art (PDF)
- https://hilmaafklint.se/about-hilma-af-klint/
Saturday 5/24
- Shamanism Retreat
Sunday 5/25
- watch: (links provided): documentaries on Hare Krishna, Aum Shinrikyō, Pana Wave, and Diamond Way.
Week 3
Monday 5/26
- GYM AT 5:30
- Watch Week 4 Lecture: UFO Religions
- John Saliba, “UFO Religions” (Encyclopedia of Religion, 2005);
Tuesday 5/27
- MOVING DAT ROUND with CM to get the last big stuff and boxes
Wednesday 5/28
Thursday 5/29
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
Friday 5/30
Saturday 5/31
Sunday 6/1
- Watch: documentary on Heaven’s Gate, Pleaidian Family video.
Week 4
Monday 6/2
- GYM AT 5:30
- watch: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - 1hr 20 min
- watch: Searching Skies (2017) - 10 min
- Possibly write reflection paper?
- Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema [PDF]
Tuesday 6/3
- Watch Week 5 Lecture: Hasidism, Kabbalah, False Messiahs, and Jewish NRMs - 1.17hr
- Allison Coudert, “Cabala” (Kabbalah Overview from Encyclopedia of Europe 1450-1789); “Shabbetai Zevi” (Encyclopedia Judaica); “Jacob Frank and Frankism” (Ency. Judaica);
Wednesday 6/4
- David Assaf “Hasidism” (Overview) (Encyclopedia Judaica); “Israel Ben Eliezer Ba’al Shem Tov” (Ency. Judaica);
- Michael Strmiska, “Not Quite Polar Opposites: Judaism and Paganism” (2014 lecture);
- Shai Feraro, “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back….Israeli Pagans 1999-2012.”
Thursday 6/5
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
Friday 6/6
- OBOD Meeting
Saturday 6/7
Sunday 6/8
- Watch: documentaries on Shabbetai Zevi, Hasidism and Kabbalah.
Week 5
Monday 6/9
- GYM AT 5:30
- Lynn Huber, “Coming into Wedding: Envisioning Revelation’s Women with Two Modern Visionaries,” in Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation. Bloomsbury, 2013: 127-167. [PDF]
Tuesday 6/10
- Watch Week 6 Lecture: Theories of Paganism
- Sabina Magliocco, Chapter Nine, “Neo-Pagan Religious Movements” from Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements,
- Scott Simpson and Mariusz Filip, “Selected Words for Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe,” from Simpson and Aitamurto, ed. Modern Paganism and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe.
Wednesday 6/11
- Shamanism Group Call
- Strmiska, “Introduction,” first chapter in Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
Thursday 6/12
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 3: Week 6 - theories of Paganism
Friday 6/13
Saturday 6/14
Sunday 6/15
Week 6
Monday 6/16
- GYM AT 5:30
- Listen: Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda
- Listen: John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
- Bivins, Jason C. Spirits Arise!: Jazz and American Religion. (excerpts) [PDF]
- For sure write reflection paper
Tuesday 6/17
- Watch: Week 7 Lecture: Ásatrú, Heathenry, and Norse Paganism
- Michael Strmiska (2000) article in Nova Religio, “Ásatrú: The Revival of Nordic Paganism?,” (2005)
- Ásatrú chapter in Modern Paganism in World Cultures, “Ásatrú: Nordic Paganism in Iceland and America,”
Wednesday 6/18
- (2007) Pomegranate article, “Putting The Blood Back Into Blot: The Revival of Animal Sacrifice in Modern Nordic Paganism,”
- unpublished 2012 conference paper, “On Becoming A Pariah.”
Thursday 6/19
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 4: Week 7 - Ásatrú: Modern Norse-Germanic Paganism.
Friday 6/20
Saturday 6/21
- Shamanism Retreat
Sunday 6/22
- watch: documentaries on Ásatrú.
Reading Week
Monday 6/23
- GYM AT 5:30
- Read Art Spiegelman, Maus, vol. 1-2
Tuesday 6/24
- Watch Week 8 Lecture: Modern Celtic Paganism - 1.05 hr
- Marion Bowman articles “Cardiac Celts: Images of the Celts in Paganism” and “Arthur and Bridget in Avalon: Celtic Myth, Vernacular Religion and Contemporary Spirituality in Glastonbury.”
Wednesday 6/25
- Jenny Butler, Chapter 3 on “Modern Celtic Druidry” in Modern Paganism in World Cultures,
Thursday 6/26
- Essay 5: Week 8 - Druidry: Modern Celtic Paganism
- Discussion/Bulletin Board
Friday 6/27
Saturday 6/28
Sunday 6/29
Week 7
Monday 6/30
- GYM AT 5:30
- Kathryn Barush, Imaging Pilgrimage pg 19-134
Tuesday 7/1
- Michael Strmiska and Rudra Dundzila (2005) Chapter 7 in Modern Paganism in World Cultures, “Romuva: Lithuanian Paganism in Lithuania and America,”
- Watch Week 9 Lecture: Modern Baltic Paganism
Wednesday 7/2
- Janis Tupešu (1987) “The Ancient Latvian Religion-Dievturība,“
- Agita Misane (1999) “National Mythology in the History of Ideas in Latvia,”
- Gatis Ozoliņš (2013), “The Dievturi Movement in Latvia as Invention of Tradition,”
- (2013) Cultural Fusions article.
Thursday 7/3
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 6: Week 9: Baltic Paganism: Romuva in Lithuania and Dievturi in Latvia
Friday 7/4
- OBOD Meeting
Saturday 7/5
Sunday 7/6
- Film: documentaries on Baltic Paganism.
Week 8
Monday 7/7
- GYM AT 5:30
- Kathryn Barush, Imaging Pilgrimage pg 135-267
Tuesday 7/8
- Watch Week 10 Lecture: The Goddess Spirituality Movement - 57 min
- Excerpts from Wendy Griffin, ed., Daughters of the Goddess and
- Jone Salomonsen, Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco;
- also Starhawk and Charlotte Allen articles.
Thursday 7/10
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 7: Week 10: Goddess Religion and Feminist Witchcraft.
Friday 7/11
Saturday 7/12
- REN FAIRE WITH MOM
Sunday 7/13
- Watch: Signs Out Of Mind, Marija Gimbutas documentary, and/or short films featuring Starhawk and other Goddess Religion leaders.
Week 9
Monday 7/14
- GYM AT 5:30
- Yohana Agra Junker, “Weaving Land and Water” in Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord pp. 387-400. [PDF available]
- bell hooks, “Diasporic Landscapes of Longing” in Art On My Mind [PDF]
Tuesday 7/15
- Watch Week 11 Lecture: Santería and Voodoo: Afro-Caribbean Paganism?
- Chapters from George Brandon, Santeria from Africa to the New World
Wednesday 7/16
- Shamanism group Call
- Mary Anne Clark article, “Santería Sacrificial Rituals.
Thursday 7/17
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 8: Week 11- Santería: An Afro-Cuban New Religious Movement.
Friday 7/18
Saturday 7/19
Sunday 7/20
- watch documentaries on Santería and African religion.
Week 10
Monday 7/21
- GYM AT 5:30
- Sacha Crasnow, “Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art” in Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord pp. 401-410
Tuesday 7/22
- Watch Week 12 Lecture: Politics and Paganism
- Michael Strmiska, “Pagan Politics in the 21st Century: “Peace and Love” or “Blood and Soil?;”
- Egil Asprem, “Heathens Up North: Polemics and Contemporary Norse Paganism in Norway,”
Wednesday 7/23
- Tammy Castle & Tara Parsons, “Vigilante or Viking? Contesting the Mediated Constructions of Soldiers of Odin Norge” (2017);
- ADL (Anti-Defamation League) (no author) “Soldiers of Odin USA: The Extreme European Anti-Refugee Group Comes to America” (2016);
- Starhawk, “Toward an Activist Spirituality” (2003).
Thursday 7/24
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Essay 9: Week 12 - Politics and Paganism
Friday 7/25
Saturday 7/26
Sunday 7/27
- Watch Documentary TBD
Week 11
Monday 7/28
- GYM AT 5:30
- Read: Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Transgressive Devotion 144 pgs
Tuesday 7/29
- Work on Final paper/Project
Wednesday 7/30
- Work on Final paper/Project
Thursday 7/31
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
Friday 8/1
- OBOD Meeting?
- Finish final Project
Sunday 8/3
Week 12
Monday 8/4
- GYM AT 5:30
Tuesday 8/5
- Work on Final Paper
Wednesday 8/6
- Work on Final Paper
Thursday 8/8
- Class 5:45-9
- Discussion/Bulletin board
- Presentation of final paper/project DUE
- FINAL DUE
Friday 8/9
- OBOD Meeting?
- Finish Final Paper
Saturday 8/10
Sunday 8/11
- Final Paper DUE
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