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HDS 3859

The Politics of Storytelling

Michael D. Jackson

Description

This course addresses Hannah Arendt's thesis that storytelling is a critical strategy for bridging the gap between private and public realms. Storytelling is thus understood as a mode of social and political activity that involves a struggle between personal and collective representations of the "truth" and between unofficial and official versions of events. Through the close analysis of storytelling in a variety of situations, we will explore the ways in which the meaning of stories resides not in any ahistorical essence or internal logic, but emerges from the everyday human struggle to strike a balance between domains of experience that are, on the one hand, felt to belong to oneself or one's own kind, and, on the other, felt to be shared by or to belong to others.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes

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Scheduling

Half Course
Spring 2010
Tu., 10-12
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Religion and the Social Sciences Religion, Ethics, and Politics Religion, Literature, and Culture
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Non-Tradition Specific
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	Pastoral Care and Counseling
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 3
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a