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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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Of Escaped Nuns and Cult Survivors: Religious Liberty and Captivity Narratives
Semester SS 2021
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 24
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Dienstag, 13.04.2021 13:00 - 14:30

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Dienstag: 13:00 - 14:30, wöchentlich

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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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