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War in the Christian Tradition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Laura Hall<\/p>\n

Mondays 2:30-5:00<\/p>\n

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January 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBlackwater as Ecclesiological Problem\u201d (8 of 25 on this site) https:\/\/issuu.com\/prismmagazine\/docs\/on_being_the_church<\/a><\/p>\n

President Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 (and related documents) https:\/\/www.eisenhower.archives.gov\/research\/online_documents\/farewell_address.html<\/a><\/p>\n

President John F. Kennedy\u2019s Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/Asset-Viewer\/BWC7I4C9QUmLG9J6I8oy8w.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Augustine, \u201cOn Lying\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/fathers\/1312.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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January 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bigger, Stronger, Faster<\/em> (film available online and at Lilly Library)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/30\/movies\/30bigg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1151309\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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These two news items:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/nation\/2015\/11\/06\/Department-of-Defense-paid-53-million-to-pro-sports-for-military-tributes-report-says\/stories\/201511060140<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/sports.vice.com\/en_us\/highlight\/stephen-a-smith-points-out-nfls-paid-patriotism-problem<\/a><\/p>\n

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January 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fog of War<\/em> (film available online and at Lilly Library)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/film\/fow.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Inner Ring\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lewissociety.org\/innerring.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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February 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Borderline<\/em> (please purchase and read entire book)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/borderline.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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February 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

Borderline<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/borderline.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

Borderline<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/borderline.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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February 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest Speaker, William Joseph (Joe) Stewart, \u201cHow Ideology Became Policy: The U.S. War in Iraq and the Role of Neo-conservatism\u201d<\/p>\n

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March 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Shock Doctrine <\/em>(please purchase and read entire book)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine<\/a><\/p>\n

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March 13 (Break)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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March 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Shock Doctrine<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Shock Doctrine<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine<\/a><\/p>\n

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April 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest Speaker, Dr. Kara Slade, \u201cThe Technology of War\u201d<\/p>\n

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April 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Terror Dream <\/em>(please purchase and read entire book)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/susanfaludi.com\/terror-dream.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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April 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Terror Dream<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/susanfaludi.com\/terror-dream.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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In his documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster<\/em>, Chris Bell begins with the World Wide Wrestling Federation’s version of geopolitics, as Hulk Hogan battled The Iron Sheik during the 1984 season.\u00a0 Bell tells a story about his two brothers on steroids, but the film is also about what makes a man a man in the U.S., and how athleticism and militarism have been intertwined to confuse, amuse and distract.\u00a0 (Bell points out that Congress spent more hours during 2005 investigating and discussing steroid use in Major League Baseball than on the response to Hurricane Katrina or the Iraq War.)\u00a0 In this class, we will consider how stories about war, faith, and patriotism shape North American, mainstream culture.\u00a0 A line from The Clash\u2019s \u201cClampdown\u201d inspired this syllabus: \u201cWe will teach our twisted speech, to the young believers.\u00a0 We will train our blue-eyed men to be young believers\u00a0 . . .\u201d\u00a0 I am interested in twisted speech, violence, and belief.\u00a0 We begin with an essay on Blackwater as a problem of belief, two historic speeches that name both opacity and a growing culture of militarism in the U.S., and a classic, Christian text on lying.\u00a0 We will then move to two films that describe masculinity, war, and culture, and a classic text on the allure of belonging. Borderline<\/em> and The Terror Dream<\/em> are self-explanatory, if you look up the links.\u00a0 The last time I taught this class, a person currently in the U.S. military recommended I teach a book on non-military forms of coercion in geopolitics. The Shock Doctrine<\/em> is my attempt to answer his request.\u00a0 Two guest speakers, Dr. Kara Slade and Joe Stewart, will speak from their expertise, on war and rhetoric.<\/p>\n

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Assignments and Grading: Regular, weekly attendance and participation (30% of your grade); weekly 2-3 page close-reading papers (double-spacing) on the assignments (70% of your grade).\u00a0 I will explain in detail the close reading format of the papers at our first session.\u00a0 Papers will be due weekly at class time beginning on January 23. \u00a0Last close reading paper due April 17.\u00a0 I will not accept papers by email.\u00a0 Participation does not necessarily mean speaking in class.\u00a0 Listening closely to and asking helpful questions of other students also constitutes participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War in the Christian Tradition Amy Laura Hall Mondays 2:30-5:00   January 11 \u201cBlackwater as Ecclesiological Problem\u201d (8 of 25 on this site) https:\/\/issuu.com\/prismmagazine\/docs\/on_being_the_church President Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 (and related documents) https:\/\/www.eisenhower.archives.gov\/research\/online_documents\/farewell_address.html President John F. Kennedy\u2019s Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/Asset-Viewer\/BWC7I4C9QUmLG9J6I8oy8w.aspx Augustine, \u201cOn Lying\u201d http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/fathers\/1312.htm   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EotM-sP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}