DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Part III: The Sacred, the Holy, Myth, and Ritual

Day 7, Monday, February 6: The Sacred and Holy

• Reading: James C. Livingston, “The Sacred and the Holy,” Anatomy of the Sacred, Chapter 3, pp. 37-50.
  
• **Reading: Rudolf Otto, selections on the "rational," the "non-rational," the "numen," the "mysterium tremendum," and the "fascinans," from The Idea of the Holy, pp. 1-13, 31-41. [EITHER THIS READING OR THE READING FROM E. DURKHIEM IN THE FIFTH PART OF THE COURSE IS A REQUIRED RESPONSE]
  

NOTE: THE FIRST SITE VISIT PROGRESS REPORT IS COMING UP ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

Day 8, Wednesday, February 8: Religious Myth

• Reading: James C. Livingston, “Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine,” Anatomy of the Sacred, Chapter 4,
  (sections on “Religious Myth” and “Models and Doctrines”), pp. 63-71.
  
• *Reading: Edmund Leach, “Genesis as Myth,” Genesis as Myth and Other Essays, pp. 7-23.
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Day 9, Monday, February 13: A Psychological Approach to Religious Ritual

• Reading: James C. Livingston, “Sacred Ritual,” Anatomy of the Sacred, Chapter 5, pp. 74-93.
• **Reading: Sigmund Freud, “Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices,” in Lessa and Vogt, Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, pp. 197-202. [EITHER THIS READING OR THE NEXT, BY C. KLUCKHOHN, IS A REQUIRED RESPONSE]

Day 10, Wednesday, February 15: An Anthropological Approach to Sacred Ritual

• **Reading: Clyde Kluckhohn, “Myth and Rituals: A General Theory,” in Lessa and Vogt, Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, pp. 144, 152-158. [EITHER THIS READING OR THEPREVIOUS, BYS. FREUD, IS A REQUIRED RESPONSE]
• * Reading: Victor Turner, selection from “Liminality and Communitas,” in The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, 1969, pp. 358-361.
  

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