Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!

1. Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!

2. Contact Info • S.Tutino, e-mail: tutino@religion.ucsb.edu • Office hours: M 2-4pm • Office: HSSB 3063 • Website: www.tutino.wikispaces.com

3. Teaching Assistants • Andrea Neuhoff • Todd Foose

4. Announcement • Not enough copies of P. Collinson’s ‘The Reformation’ at the UCSB Bookstore: please get a copy through Amazon or in any other way you want

5. If you want to crash the class: • Add to the online wait list (through the department webpage, please do not email me or the TAs, as we cannot add you), and follow ALL the instructions • Go to the section you want to attend during the first week (if you fail to show up you will be dropped from the list) • Add codes will be given starting from the end of the second week, AS SPACE BECOMES AVAILABLE • Sorry about all this: I know it is difficult for you, but this year we have many constraints that prevent us from over-enroll classes.

6. Highlight from the syllabus Grading scheme: • Section attendance and participation: 15% • Midterm (essay questions): 20% • Take-Home Final: essay questions, 1,800 words total, 30% (Due March 5th) • Final (essay questions): 35% • Every assignment must be completed in order to pass the class

7. Deadlines: • MIDTERM: February 1st, in class (open-books, open-notes, essay) • TAKE-HOME due: March 5th (essays) • FINAL: March 16th, 8-11am, in class (open-books, open-notes, essay) • No late papers, no make up exams: please plan your schedules accordingly!

8. Important information • Reading-intensive (but very tight) • Writing-intensive (80B fulfills the GE writing requirements) • Attention to historical accuracy • PRIMARY SOURCES!

9. What is a primary source? • A primary source is a source written IN the period that we want to study • A secondary source is a source written ON the period that we study, but later than that

10. Scope of the class: • Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire until the 1600 • The role of religion within this: Christianity especially, but also Judaism and Islam • Two themes:

11. Church ‘high’ and ‘low’ • ‘High’: theology, doctrinal issues, ecclesiology • ‘Low’: popular religion, popular reception of ‘high’ debates, or how ‘high’ filters down ‘below’

12. Politics and religion • The political role of the Church • What happens when the states get strong • Pope & Emperor: a struggle that influenced deeply medieval and early modern Europe

13. ‘High’ and ‘low’: who cares? • Idol=from Greek, image, representation, something that stands for something else. Since the Middle Ages it means ‘image of god’, or ‘image of a saint’ • Idolatry and Luther: a crucial theological controversy • And today??

14. ‘High’ and ‘low’: religion and soup • Clam chowder: always on Friday! • Why? • Friday is the day of fasting in the traditional liturgy of the Christian Church: no meat

15. Pope & Emperor: who cares? • Do you remember the Warren-controversy? • Religion and politics today: a much debated question • Behind this, the issue of the nature of civil and religious power

16. Any question?

17. See you next time then!