Soc/CES 541 & RS 401: Nature, Faith, & Community
Course Books
Required:
• Armstrong, Karen. 2009. The Case for God. New York: Anchor Books.
• Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. Ursula Le Guin, trans. [Place]: Shambhala; Har/Com.
• Mitchell, Stephen. 2006. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. New York: Free Press
• Aslan, Reza. 2013. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. New York: Random House.
• Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Norton Critical Edition.
Recommended: I’ll be providing PDFs of the required portions of these books, in an effort to hold down costs, but you may want to purchase them for your own library.
• Armstrong, Karen. 2006. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New York: Anchor Books.
• Berger, Peter and Anton Zijderveld. 2009. In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic. New York: HarperCollins.
• Kurtz, Lester R. 2007. Gods in the Global Village: The World’s Religions in Sociological Perspective. 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
•Wright, Robert. 2009. The Evolution of God. New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
All of the books for the course will be available at the Rainbow Cooperative, 426 West Gilman Street, as well as on reserve at Steenbock Library. The other readings will be available for downloading by clicking on the (password protected) materials tab on this website.