Class Schedule
what to read/listen to and when
(17 JAN) What’s religion?
KI101 S1E1: What the Heck is Religion and What the Heck is this Podcast
KI101 S1E6: You Might Be Done with Religion, but Religion Is Not Done with You
(24 JAN) What’s a cult?
US Constitution, Article VI Clause 3 and the first amendment
KI101 E110, “Cults”
Barker, from Making of a Moonie
Moore, “The Brainwashing Myth”
Hough, “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing”
(31 JAN) What does race have to do with religion & cults
- KI101 E203, “Race and Religion in What’s Now the US”
- Chan-Malik, “Race”
- Gerbner, “Race”
- Rana, “The Story of Islamophobia”
- Evans, from MOVE: An American Religion
- Weisenfeld, from New World A-Coming
- Baldwin, “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
(7 FEB) NO CLASS
Catch up on coursework and rest!
(21 FEB) NO CLASS: February break
(28 FEB) Religion as barbarism, white supremacy, and nativism
Mueller, “Prologue,” from Race and the Making of the Mormon People (UNC 2017)
Mueller, “Introduction: Race on the Page, Race on the Body,” from Race and the Making of the Mormon People (UNC 2017)
Mueller, “Is Mormonism Still Racist?”
Weisenfeld, “Framing the Nation”
Baker, “Birth of the Klan’s Nation”
(7 MAR) Peoples Temple [1]
KI101 S5E4, “INCORRECT: Drinking the Kool-aid”
Smith, “The Devil in Mr. Jones”
Moore, Pinn, & Sawyer, “Introduction,” from Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America (2004)
Milk, “In Defense of Jim Jones,” (February 1978)
(14 MAR) Peoples Temple [2]
Newton, “The Way of Liberation,” from Revolutionary Suicide (1973)
Q042 Transcript, FBI Transcription
Harris & Waterman, “To Die for the Peoples Temple,” from Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America (2004)
Hutchinson, “Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown,” AAIHS (31 January 2017)
Chidester, “Rituals of Exclusion and the Jonestown Dead,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56.4 (Winter 1988): 681–702
Hutchinson, White Nights, Black Paradise (2020) — in class
(21 MAR) MOVE [1] + Harkness sprints
MOVE timeline, Philadelphia Tribune (9 May 2015)
Evans, introduction and conclusion from MOVE: An American Religion
Demby, “Still Trying to Make Sense of the MOVE Bombing,” National Public Radio (13 May 2015)
(28 MAR) MOVE [2]
Evans, “Building a Cult”
Evans, “Progress”
Evans, “Policing Religion”
(4 APR) Parable of the Talents + Harkness prep
Butler, Parable of the Talents
Butler, “Devil Girl from Mars”
