Seminar: Of Escaped Nuns and Cult Survivors: Religious Liberty and Captivity Narratives - Details

Seminar: Of Escaped Nuns and Cult Survivors: Religious Liberty and Captivity Narratives - Details

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Course name Seminar: Of Escaped Nuns and Cult Survivors: Religious Liberty and Captivity Narratives
Semester SS 2021
Current number of participants 24
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Tuesday, 13.04.2021 13:00 - 14:30

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No room preference
Tuesday: 13:00 - 14:30, weekly

Module assignments

Comment/Description

For early settlers like the Puritans or the Pilgrims, America promised religious freedom and to this day, religious liberty is a central value in American culture. However, in some literary and cultural texts and genres, at least since the 19th century, we can observe the theme of captivity as a result of religious affiliation. These narratives are situated in fields of tensions between religious freedom, personal liberty, and anti-religious propaganda.
It is the aim of this course to interrelate these (fictional) captivity narratives both in light of their rhetoric strategies and formal-aesthetic properties, the representation of the experience of captivity, of religiosity and institutionalized religion and evaluate these texts as situated in specific socio-historical and political contexts. We will therefore also engage with the role of religion in the US while looking at a variety of texts which interrelate religious affiliation and captivity.
This course is organized as a digital course, consisting of weekly reading and (short) writing assignments (“Studienleistungen”) and synchronous meetings on a digital platform where we will have the opportunity to discuss the respective topics and reflect on our reading experiences.

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