Peter Smith’s videos for 2020-2021: IIIa. Religious Studies

RELIGION TRACK.

Sociology of Religion:

Religious movements.

SRM 1   Membership of religious movements. 8/10/20.

SRM 2   Conversion. 15/10.

SRM 3   Deconversion. 22/10.

SRM 4   Sociological factors impacting conversion and deconversion. 29/10.

Review questions.

QRM 1  RQ Religious movements. 5/11.

Summary of Peter L. Berger. The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation.

SR Berger            Heretical Imperative [1.1]. 29/4.

SR Berger            From fate to choice. [1.2]. 6/5.

SR Berger            ‘Promethean Man’ and the Heretical Imperative. [1.3]. 13/5.

SR Berger            Realities and experience. [2.1]. 20/5.

SR Berger            Human experience and religious tradition. [2.2]. 27/5.

SR Berger            Protestantism and options for religious thought [2.3]. 3/6.

SR Berger            The deductive possibility [3.1]. 10/6.

SR Berger            Neo-orthodoxy & its critique [3.2]. 17/6.

SR Berger            Reflecting on thunder [3.3]. 24/6.

SR Berger            The ‘Reductive Possibility’ [4.1]. 1/7.

SR Berger            A Translation Model [4.2]. 8/7.

SR Berger            Myth & Symbol [4.3]. 15/7.

SR Berger            Back to Schleiermacher [5.1]. 22/7.

SR Berger            The Inductive Model [5.2] 29/7.

SR Berger            The Quest for Certainty (5/3). 5/8.

SR Berger            Between Jerusalem and Benares (6.1). 12/8.

SR Berger            Two types of religious experience (6.2). 19/8.

SR Berger            A Note to Christians [6.3]. 26/8.

Shi’ism.

VR Shiism 1         Shi’ite doctrine, pt. 1. 4/2.

VR Shiism 2         Shi’ite doctrine, pt. 2. 5/2.

VR Shiism 3         The concept of Mahdi in Twelver Shi’ism. 11/2.

VR Shiism 4         Islamic political movements, pt. 1. 28/2.

VR Shiism 5         Islamic political movements, pt.2. 7/3.

VR Shiism 6         Islamic political movements, pt. 3. 14/3.

See separate list for BABI AND BAHA’I STUDIES.