SHUM 6652 - Building Religion

(crosslisted) ASIAN 6682 , RELST 6652 , VISST 6652

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Not open to: undergraduates. Co-meets with ASIAN 4482/RELST 4652/SHUM 4652/VISST 4652.

A. Irwin.

This experimental seminar examines religious artisans and designers as central contributors to the religious worlds they help create. Reading across religious traditions and time periods, we will learn how devout people forming things with their hands simultaneously informs ethical systems, aesthetic regimes, and ways of accessing the divine. Members of this seminar will also explore artmaking as a mode of academic inquiry though a series of integrated artmaking workshops on the fundamentals of drawing and composition. Developing new hand-based skills while learning about religious makers will provide new insights into the world of material religion as lived phenomenon. For additional information visit the Society for the Humanities website.