TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER READINGS :

 

1. E. J. Sharpe, Comparative Religion: A History. 2nd ed. La Salle: Open Court, 1986
 (available at the WLU bookstore and on 3-hr/overnight short-term loan at the library).

2. H. Remus, W. C. James and D. Fraikin, Religious Studies in Ontario: A State-of-the-Art Review. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992
(available at the WLU bookstore and on 3-hr/overnight short-term loan at the library).

3. A Primary and Secondary Source Reader available from the instructor.

 

ANTHOLOGY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS

Week 2 (September 18)

  • Cady Stanton, Elizabeth, The Woman's Bible (introductory selections). Seattle: Coalition Task Force on Women and Religion, 1974 [1898].
    Gross, Rita, "Appendix A: Here I Stand: Feminist as an Academic Method and as Social Vision." In R. Gross, Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis and Reconstruction of Buddhism, 291-304. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
  • King, Ursula, "Introduction: Gender and the Study of Religion." In U. King, ed., Religion and Gender, 1-38. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
    Leonard, Ellen, "Experience as a Source for Theology: A Canadian and Feminist Perspective." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 19 (1990): 143-162.

Week 3 (September 25)

  • Müller, Max, "Preface." In M. Müller, Chips from a German Workshop. Volume 1: Essays on the Science of Religion, vii-xxxiii. Chico: Scholars Press, 1985 [1869].
    Müller, F. Max, "First Lecture." In F. M. Müller, Introduction to the Science of Religion, 1-51. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.
    Klimkeit, Hans J., "Müller, F. Max (1823-1900)." In M. Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol.10, 153-154. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
    Masuzawa, Tomoko, "Accidental Mythology: Max MŸller in and out of His Workshop." In T. Masuzawa, In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion, 58-75. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
    Strenski, Ivan, "Misreading Max MŸller." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8 (1996): 291-296. [A critique of Masuzawa's reading of Müller]
    Masuzawa, Tomoko, "Reading in the Wake: Supplementary Remarks on the Dreamtime." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8 (1996): 311-315. [A rejoinder to Strenski's critique of her reading of Müller]
    Dorson, Richard M., "The Eclipse of Solar Mythology." In T. M. Sebeok, ed., Myth: A Symposium, 25-63. Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1971 [1955].

Week 4 (October 2)

  • Durkheim, Emile, "Concerning the Definition of Religious Phenomena." In W. S. F. Pickering, ed., Durkheim on Religion, 74-99. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.
    Durkheim, Emile, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. In W. S. F. Pickering, ed., Durkheim on Religion, 102-166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.
    Lukes, Steven, "Durkheim." In M. Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol.4, 517-519. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
    J. Samuel Preus, "Sociogenic Theory: Emile Durkheim." In J. S. Preus, Explaining Religion: Criticism and Social Theory from Bodin to Freud, 157-177. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Week 5 (October 16)

  • Eliade, Mircea, "Forward" and "Approximations: Structure and Morphology of the Sacred." In M. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, xi-xv, 1-37. Trans. R. Sheed. London: Sheed and Ward, 1958.
    Eliade, Mircea, "Methodological Remarks on the Study of Religious Symbolism." In M. Eliade and J. Kitagawa (eds.), The History of Religions: Essays in Methodology, 86-107. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
    Eliade, Mircea, "History of Religions and a New Humanism." History of Religions 1 (1961): 1-8.
    Eliade, Mircea, "Preface." In M. Eliade (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 1, ix-xii. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
    Kitagawa, Joseph M., "Eliade, Mircea (1907-1986)." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 5, 85-90. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
    Christ, Carol P., "Mircea Eliade and the Feminist Paradigm Shift." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 9 (1991): 75-94.

Week 6 (October 23)

  • Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, "On the Comparative Study of Religion." In W. H. Capps (ed.), Ways of Understanding Religion, 1-14. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
    Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, "Comparative Religion: Whither -- and Why?" In M. Eliade and J. M. Kitagawa (eds.), The History of Religions: Essays in Methodology, 31-58. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
    Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, "Introduction" and "Is the Concept Adequate?" In W. C. Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, 1-14, 119-153. London: SPCK, 1978.
    Oxtoby, Willard G., "Editor's Introduction." In W. G. Oxtoby, ed., Religious Diversity: Essays by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, vii-xxiv. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
    McMullin, Neil, "Introduction [to a 1992 conference held in honour of Smith]." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 4 (1992): 1-3.
    Hick, John, "On Wilfred Cantwell Smith: His Place in the Study of Religion." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 4 (1992): 5-20.
    Smart, Ninian, "W. C. Smith and Complementarity." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 4 (1992): 21-26.

Week 7 (October 30)

  • Remus, Harold, "Religious Studies in Ontario, 1992 to 1999: State-of-the-Art Update." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 28 (1999): 197-208.

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