RELG 8747

Course Description

This course is dedicated to the exploration of the claims of, critiques of, and afterlives of secularization theory. The course addresses the major questions that arise when making distinctions between "secularism" as a political expression and "the secular" as an epistemic model. The course provides special attention to a survey of earlier theories, the cross-sections of race, politics, and gender and the secular, and post-secular critiques.