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HDS 3257

Personified Objects/Objectified Persons

Michael D. Jackson

Description

Animism, fetishism and anthropomorphism are often taken as signs of primitivism or irrationality. This course explores the origins of these modes of thought, not simply in history and culture but in human intersubjectivity and existential situations. The course also considers the ethical, social and conceptual entailments of distinguishing, conflating, or confusing persons and things, subjects and objects.

Enrollment Limited: Limited to 15 (instructor's permission required)
Open to BTI Students: Yes

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Scheduling

Half Course
Fall 2009
W., 1-3
Rockefeller Hall, Room 117

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	African and African American Religious Studies Religion and the Social Sciences
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Non-Tradition Specific
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	Religious Education
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 3
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a