AFRS 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 330) Topic for 2014/15b: Religion, Race, and Democracy. This seminar in religious ethics examines the way certain goods and virtues potentially crucial to a just democracy-hope, reverence, other-regard, memory, community, and even love-have historically been in short supply. Of particular interest is the way that race in America is a crucial frame through which to look at this set of questions. How do democracies teach their citizens about the sorts of virtues that democratic existence may require? How do religious resources contribute to this conversation? Ultimately we consider whether democracy is capable of expressing and training its citizens in the sorts of virtues that the pluralistic conditions of democratic life-conditions centrally rooted in the conflict over the nature of racial justice-would seem to require. Mr. Kahn.

No prerequisites.

One 2-hour period.