o Subject is human beings o Eye toward description rather than normative judgment Tweet 3 times this week USReligionFSU Include Hashtags TA Tammy Heise Trh08e my fsu edu Primary Sources for paper American Memory 01 09 13 What is the Academic Study of Religion Anthropological category Religion is a theological category o Study gods more than humans Description vs Evaluation o Different data o Different questions What is Sensory Culture Visual and Material Culture Synonymous with Art o Every day life o Attention to makers and viewers History is more than text o Texts are artifacts too Religion is a lot of Stuff archive o Texts Objects Images Songs First Assignment Due February 15 2013 Paper on film Music Video Judas Lady Gaga SEE Water o Baptism o Feet washing o Betrayal Judas NT Christian scripture o Figure whom betrays Jesus Bikers Jesus disciples Crown of thorns represents that he is Jesus Gaga o Priestess o Mary Mother o Mary Magdalene Jesus is my virtue Judas is the demon I cling to Judas is the king with no crown temptation HEAR Crowd REASONING Herself Cheating Sacred Holy religious Profane secular King of Kings Cecil de Mille Opening Scene Mary Magdalene waits for Judas Only scene in color 01 11 13 Extra Credit watch the inauguration one to two page reflection on the religious practices within the ceremonies Mapping Religion in American History The history of American is inseparable from the history of religion in American Mark C Carnes Religion is a datum and point of reference as omnipresent and inescapable as the rivers and the mountains the laws the courts the trade routes and the labor unions the political parties and the national presidents Edwin Gausted 1992 Datum history measurement Basis to create a foundation Religion isn t the MOST important measurement but it needs to be taken seriously What is America Not Synonymous with United States It depends on where you put the word o American religion is different from religion in America American religion underscores unity E g civilreligion o Dominant cluster of organizations ideas and moral values that have characterized the US o Prayers before Congress oaths upon Bibles State funerals veneration of previous leaders Traditional Protestant and Christian practices America is a religion o Pledge of allegiance Mentions God Ritual o Swear on the Bible Idea that there is a common moral anchor compass among Americans o Nationalistic o Raises the question of who counts recognizes diversity Religion in America Pluralism Many ness The distinct religions of the many peoples have come to call the United States their homeland How Does One Map Ideas About God Identifying the cultural contexts Carnes compared Carol and other atlas writers map out religion with concentration of explanation and motives instead of plotting a dot on a map This is NOT the question we are asking o Instead how do we map the behaviors attitudes and beliefs of people who lived in the past o Shifts emphasis 3 Axes 1 Equating religion with institutions of religion a Problem Not everyone has an institution of congregation b Church history models institutions have better records Individuals 2 3 Groups of People a Communities regional racial economic political etc b Missions Migrations movements c Imagined Communities i Bound together through various forms of media Newspapers tracts books photographs radio movies television and internet Multidimensional Portrait How Do Historians Think Change Over Time Sources o Primary Books personal writings o Secondary Written about a figure or situation outsiders o Tertiary Encyclopedia bare bones perspective o Jefferson s Bible Enlightenment New Republic Context Causation and Consequence Continuity Religious Expression in Public Schools 1995 First Amendment to the United States Constitution 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof Establishment clause Secular by law o Did not prevent states from establishing religions the last state to disestablish the church in this case this Congregational church was Massachusetts in 1833 o President John Adams Treaty of Tripoli 1796 The government of the USA is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion Free Exercise Clause religious by choice o Supreme Court of the US 1892 this is a Christian nation 01 14 13 FIELD TRIP Wednesday Meet at Mission San Luis 2100 West Tennessee St New World Encounters Two Kinds of Contact Accounts Descriptions by Europeans o Bernal Diaz del Castillo 1519 1550s native lives worship o Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 1542 written by a European assessment of experience Transcriptions of native myths stories o Koasati Rabbit Tales Demonstrate the social operation of humor Transcription of oral tales o Changes over time from verbal to written Recited by Selin Williams to John Swanton in 1910 folklorist o She is being very provocative he introduced euphemisms for the western audience o Printed word is a kind of representation that fixes a dynamic spoken Neither heritage into a fixed document can be understood outside of the context of intercultural contact New Spain Christopher Columbus Italian wanted to expand the East by going West Searching a new way to go to India Needed Monarch backing for financial backing Spain Queen Isabella took 5 years to decide with her council o Approved April 30 1492 o Whereas you Cristobal Colon are setting forth by our command to discover and acquire certain islands and mainlands in the ocean sea it is our will and pleasure that you shall discover and acquire the same for the glory of God and the wealth of God s great nation Spain o Conquest of the Americas a religious no less than economic or militaristic endeavor many colonial activities o Sacralazing the landscape and converting native became paramount to 3 months into the voyage he lands and names it San Salvador Holy Savior First European nation to occupy the West Hemisphere o Other Nations France England Portugal and the Dutch Areas of claim Modern day Mexico Caribbean Texas New Mexico Arizona and Florida New Spain The Inquisition Sought to expunge heretics namely Jews and Muslims From Spain In full force by 1492 o 100 000 Jews exiled from Spain New Christians Jews converted to Christianity per Inquisition o Espanas who continued to practice Judaism after officially converting to o Evidence in the form of recorded accusations investigations and trial Christianity records o Allegedly among Columbus s crew