Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden.
Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester
WiSe 2021/22
, Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024
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American Women in Cults Sprache: Englisch Belegpflicht | |||||||||||
(Keine Nummer) Hauptseminar WiSe 2021/22 2 SWS jedes Semester | |||||||||||
Lehreinheit: | Anglistik | ||||||||||
Teilnehmer/-in Maximal : 30 | |||||||||||
Zugeordnete Lehrperson: | Knox-Raab | ||||||||||
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Termin: |
Donnerstag
12:00
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14:00
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Beginn : 14.10.2021 | Raum : R12 R04 B11 R12R | |||||||||
Kommentar: | Cults have always thrived in the American landscape, often as attempts to improve upon an environment perceived as spiritually or philosophically lacking. Sometimes cults arrive with new immigrants – American history is immigration – and sometimes they arise from a desire to escape from American or Western culture. American women have endured and escaped from both. We will work our way through the worlds of Somali Muslim, Orthodox Jewish, Evangelical-biblical-literalist and hyper-Calvinist Baptist, Mormon survivalist women. Try to read Louisa May Alcott’s experiences in her transcendentalist father’s commune, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” (available online here https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/engl368/transoats.pdf) before the semester begins.
Students should purchase the following: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations (2010) Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (2012) Tara Westover, Educated (2018) Meghan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church (2019) |
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Bemerkung: | All students: My personal preference, if we meet in person, is for all of us to be (like me) fully vaccinated. The choice is yours, but my chronic condition puts me in life-threatening danger if I am exposed to the Corona virus. Thank you for considering this request. |
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