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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by mmcnally · returned 7 results
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IDSC 285 Ethics of Civic Engagement 3 credits
This course explores vexing ethical questions raised in academic civic engagement practice. With structured reflection on students’ varied civic engagement experiences and a group project aligned with the instructor’s work, students will consider questions arising from asymmetries of power, the relationships between scholarship and advocacy, scholarly and community knowledges, empathy with others and a student’s own moral commitments, and practices of civic engagement and community organizing. Offered biennially by rotating faculty, course themes will vary accordingly. The 2023 theme is Indigenous engagement in Minnesota.
Extra time with community partner, flexibly scheduled
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IDSC 285.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THLeighton 330 3:15pm-4:55pm
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RELG 110 Understanding Religion 6 credits
How can we best understand the role of religion in the world today, and how should we interpret the meaning of religious traditions–their texts and practices–in history and culture? This class takes an exciting tour through selected themes and puzzles related to the fascinating and diverse expressions of religion throughout the world. From politics and pop culture, to religious philosophies and spiritual practices, to rituals, scriptures, gender, religious authority, and more, students will explore how these issues emerge in a variety of religions, places, and historical moments in the U.S. and across the globe.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 140 Religion and American Culture 6 credits
This course explores the colorful, contested history of religion in American culture. While surveying the main contours of religion in the United States from the colonial era to the present, the course concentrates on a series of historical moments that reveal tensions between a quest for a (Protestant) American consensus and an abiding religious and cultural pluralism.
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RELG 140.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 214 Irish Studies In Ireland Program: Sacred Place & Pilgrimage in Ireland 6 credits
Encounters with the sacred on the landscape present a through line of Irish religion: pre-Christian, Christian, and post-Christian. Holy mountains, islands, stones, and wells materialize the sacred and organize the practices of lived religion. Such places are also charged sites of historical memory, colonization, and resistance. Long wellsprings of Irish cultural nationalism, they now capture spiritual imaginations of global seekers of earth-based spirituality. Through readings, field visits, and walking several pilgrimage routes, this course explores narratives and practices of sacred places, engages the blurry boundary between the sacred/secular entailed in pilgrimage, and queries the modern romance with “Celtic Spirituality.”
Pariticipation in Ireland Program
- Summer 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Participation in Ireland Program
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RELG 216 Irish Studies in Ireland Program: Becoming Ireland: Nature, Culture, and Religion in Irish History 3 credits
The past is a strong presence in Ireland. People live with Iron Age tombs and medieval sculptures in their backyards. Modern identities are negotiated through memories of Ireland becoming Celtic, or Christian, or colonized. Understanding modern traditions about these changes requires investigation of how such features of “being Irish” played out long ago. This course explores foundations of modern Ireland though an archaeological tour of key moments in ancient Ireland, with emphasis on changes in sacred landscapes from period to period. The course involves readings, material culture studies, and experience at archaeological sites, including active excavations.
Participation in OCS Ireland Program
- Summer 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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RELG 239 Religion & American Landscape 6 credits
The American landscape is rich in sacred places. The religious imaginations, practices, and beliefs of its diverse inhabitants have shaped that landscape and been shaped by it. This course explores ways of imagining relationships between land, community, and the sacred, the mapping of religious traditions onto American land and cityscapes, and theories of sacred space and spatial practices. Topics include religious place-making practices of Indigenous, Latinx, and African Americans, as well as those of Euro-American communities from Puritans, Mormons, immigrant farmers.
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RELG 239.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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