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”
KI101 S2E5, “Gender, sexuality and religion in what’s now the US”
(19 JAN) What’s race?
KI101 S2E5, “Race and religion in what’s now the US”
Rana, “The Story of Islamophobia”
Johnson, “Black Religion, the Security State, and the Racialization of Islam”
Chapter 5, I Am Not Your Negro (2016), in class
**CN for white supremacist language**
(24 JAN) What’s politics?
Wasserman, “The Political Process Isn’t Rigged”
Sostaita, “Waste Land”
Gin Lum, “Shithole Countries”
Diamant, “Faith on the Hill”
Tevington, “Growing share of Americans see the Supreme Court as ‘friendly’ toward religion”
(26 JAN) the US Constitution and religious nationalism
US Constitution, Article VI Clause 3 and the first amendment
KI101 SGS2: “Religious nationalism”
Washington and Seixas correspondence (1790)
Smith, Rotolo, and Tevington, “45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’”
(31 JAN) Religious freedom*
Wenger, intro and conclusion to Religious Freedom
Sullivan, “The impossibility of religious freedom”
Hurd, “Believing in religious freedom”
(2 FEB) Harkness Sprints: 4 groups
(7 & 9 FEB) NO CLASS
Catch up on coursework and rest!
(14 FEB) Religious freedom and Native religions (1)
Wenger, “We are guaranteed freedom”
Zitkála Šá, “Why I am a pagan”
KI101 S4E4, “What are Indigenous religions? Part 2”
(16 FEB) Religious freedom and Native religions (2)
Employment Division v. Smith (1990), oyez
RFRA (1993)
Sullivan, “The World That Smith Made”
Wenger, “Why Religious Freedom Won’t Protect Native American Sacred Lands”
(21 & 23 FEB) NO CLASS: February break
(2 MAR) Abolition, emancipation, and suffrage
KI101 S2E5, “Gender, Sexuality, & Religion in what’s now the U.S.”
Grimke, “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South”
Truth, “Ain’t I a woman?” (both versions)
Lavery, “Suffragettes who sucked”
13th and 19th amendments
ACLU, “Voting Rights Act: Major Dates in History”
NONDOC, “Native American Voting Rights”
(7 MAR) VRA + Shelby v. Holder
The Takeaway, “Rep. John Lewis Tells the Struggle For Civil Rights in Graphic Novel” (read + listen)
Shelby v. Holder (2013), oyez and Ginsburg dissent
Quinn and Smith, “Pastors Often Discussed Election, Pandemic and Racism in Fall of 2020”
Liptak, “A Supreme Court Test for What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act”
(9 MAR) Harkness sprints: 3 groups
(14 MAR) Religion and reproduction
Goodwin, “America’s Contraceptive Mentality”
Frank, “The Deep Ties Between the Catholic Anti-Abortion Movement and Racial Segregation”
Mehta, “Protestants and the pill: How US Christians helped make birth control mainstream”
Andrews, “How an Underground Network of Ministers and Rabbis Helped Women Get Abortions Before Roe”
Cardinal, “Where the Pro-Choice Movement Went Wrong”
(16 MAR) Griswold + Loving + Roe
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), oyez
Loving v. Virginia (1968), oyez
Roe v. Wade (1973), oyez
The Janes (2022), screening in class
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(21 MAR) Burwell
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), oyez and Ginsburg dissent
Goodwin, “Cost of Corporate Conscience”
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(23 MAR) NO CLASS: March break
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(28 MAR) Dobbs
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (2022), oyez and Kagan dissent
Ruttenberg, “My Religion Makes Me Pro-abortion”
Jalalzai, “Please stop using Islam to critique the abortion ban”
Full Frontal, “But God didn’t say that!”
Frank, thread on post-Dobbs religious repro advocacy
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(30 MAR) Contraceptive nationalism
Goodwin, “Contraceptive nationalism”
Goodwin, “Sex, religion, abuse”
(4 APR) 6 January 2021
Imhoff, “Shofar blast”
du Mez, “Braveheart”
Lloyd, “QAnon shaman”
Butler, “Hanging democracy on the gallows”
Drake, “We represent blue lives”
Choudry, “In the name above all names”
