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Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!

Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!. Contact Info. S.Tutino, e-mail: tutino@religion.ucsb.edu Office hours: M, 4-6pm Office: HSSB 3063 Website: www.tutino.wikispaces.com (also, check on the RS Department website). Teaching Assistants. Ali Bjerke Office hours: Mondays, 4-5pm and 6-7pm

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Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!

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  1. Religious Studies 80B: Welcome!

  2. Contact Info • S.Tutino, e-mail: tutino@religion.ucsb.edu • Office hours: M, 4-6pm • Office: HSSB 3063 • Website: www.tutino.wikispaces.com (also, check on the RS Department website)

  3. Teaching Assistants • Ali Bjerke Office hours: Mondays, 4-5pm and 6-7pm Office: HSSB 3055 • Zak Johnson Office hours: Fridays, 11am-1pm Office: HSSB 3055

  4. Highlight from the syllabus Grading scheme: • Section attendance and participation: 15% • Midterm (essay questions): 20% • Take-Home Final: essay questions, 7 pages total, 30% • Final (essay questions): 35% • Every assignment must be completed in order to pass the class

  5. Add codes: • No add code given for the first week of class: we will start giving them on the second • Limited space: please talk with your TA • Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee an add code to everybody who wants one

  6. Deadlines: • MIDTERM: October 26th, in class (open-books, open-notes, essay) • TAKE-HOME due: November 30th (essays) • No late papers, no make up exams: please plan your schedules accordingly!

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

  8. 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

  9. 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:

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

  11. 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

  12. ‘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??

  13. ‘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

  14. Pope & Emperor: who cares? • What is a theocon? • Religion and politics today: a much debated question • Behind this, the issue of the nature of civil and religious power

  15. Any question?

  16. See you next time then!

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