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HDS 2528

Religion and the Public Intellectual

Ronald F. Thiemann

Description

An inquiry into the role of the public intellectual in contemporary culture. The course will review the critical literature on the public intellectual focusing on the question of religion. Special attention will be given to the social and cultural conditions that enable religiously based social criticism and to the various genres (poetry, the essay, the novel) through which that criticism is communicated. Readings in Baldwin, Camus, Day, Hansberry, Hughes, Niebuhr, Orwell, and others.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1567

Scheduling

Half Course
Expected to be offered: Fall 2010
Course times to be announced.
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Religion, Ethics, and Politics Religion, Literature, and Culture Theology
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Christianity
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	none
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 2
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a