DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Part IV: Scripture and Sacred Texts

Day 11, Monday, February 20: SITE-VISIT PROGRESS REPORT # 1: APPLYING SMART'S SEVEN DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION TO YOUR FIRST SITE.

• Reading: James C. Livingston, “Sacred Scripture,” Anatomy of the Sacred, Chapter 6, pp. 96-121.

Day 12, Wednesday, February 22: A conversation with Dr. Randall Nadeau: An Anthropological Approach to Sacred Ritual in China

• To be read in class with Professor Nadeau: a short selection from "Sacred Writings of Inspired Women," from Nadeau's essay, "Harmonizing Family and Cosmos: Shamanic Women in Chinese Religions," in Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross, eds., Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, pp. 70-72..
• *Paul Gifford, "Religious Authority: Scripture, Tradition, Charisma," in John R. Hinnels, ed., The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, Chapter 23, pp. 397-409.

NOTE: THE SECOND SITE VISIT PROGRESS REPORT IS COMING UP ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8.

Day 13, Monday, February 27: A conversation with Dr. Rubén Dupertuis [tbc]: The New Testament Text and Its Historical-Social Contexts

• *Reading: Rubén René Dupertuis, “The Acts of the Apostles, Narrative, and History," in Danna N. Fewell, ed., The Oxford Handbook on Biblical Narrative (2016), pp. 330-340.
• *Reading: Brennan Breed, "Canon: Process not Product."
• *Timothy Beal, "The Story of the Good Book," in The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, pp. 111-146.

Day 14, Wednesday, March 1. Catch-up day and individual conferences.

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