REL 221.002
Lovelace
Combs 412
In this course, we shall study world wisdom traditions with food and agriculture as our delicious thread. Coherent interfaith dialogue, the possibility of creating a "religious community garden" as a final class project and the occasional feast are goals for the class.  Students are expected to keep up with daily readings and contribute to class discussions/projects and presentations.  
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World Religion II: Religion and Agriculture

Readings for Mon 22:
Kashrut: Jewish Dietart Laws

The 10...er...613 Commandments
Pay close attention to the Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

Shabbat

Deuteronomy 15:12-18).

Student Presentation:
The Green Belt of the Torah
Wed. 24 Readings:
Kosher Slaughter

Treatment of Animals

Struggle for Freedom: The Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship
by Manfred Davidmannl

Student Presentation
Kosher Canning

Mon. 29 Readings:
Christianity and Agriculture: Read pages 59-67
Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5-7
Student Presentation
Gospel of Thomas

Wed. 31 Readings:
Unhappy Meals (A MUST READ)
What connections can you draw between this article and what we've learned about Judaism and Christianity?
Student Presentation:

Fri.2 Readings:
Buddhism:
The Story of the Buddha
The Four Noble Truths
The Eight-Fold Path
Student Presentation:
The Dalai Lama and Neuroscience

Mon. 5 Readings
The Buddhist Diet
The Dhammapada on Violence
Student Presentation:
Karma and Rebirth

Wed. 7 Readings:
Eric Schlosser's,  Fast food Nation Excerpts.
Examine this article from a Buddhist perspective.

Mon. 12 Readings:
Islam links
Student Presentation:

Wed. 14 Readings:
Ramadan (read pages 1-3)
Qur'an and Hadith on fasting,food, and charity

Fri. 16
Islam discussion continued

Mon. 19
Eric Schlosser's,  Fast food Nation Excerpts. From multiple religious perspectives.

Wed. 21
"Hinduism" Yoga Philosophy
Yoga Asanas demonstrated by my teacher, Venketesh

Yamas and Niyamas

Mon. 26
Lessons from India

Vendana Shiva: "In her Own Words"

Wed. 28th
Vendana Shiva on Democracy Now

March
Fri.. 2nd
midterm review

Mon. 4th Questions

Wed. 6th MIDTERM EXAM

Mon. 12th midterm discussion

Wed. 14th
Project groups

Fri. 16th
FAST FOOD NATION

MONDAY 19th -FRIDAY 23rd
SPRING BREAK





"Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land...That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land... And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound ... And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land... A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field." (from Leviticus, Chapter 25: 3-12 - English language translation based upon the KJV).
Mon. 26th
Lecture: School agriculure and the 7th grade

Wed. 28th
Garden Plans: drawing it up

Fri. 30th
Site visit

APRIL
Mon. 2nd
Future of Food

Wed 4th
Resistance to globalisation and the Patchamama
Andean Cosmology

Fri. 6th:
Farm visit

Mon.9th
Zen Gardens

Wed 11th
The Buddhist Garden

Mon.16th
Genetic engeneer foods Halal or Haram?
ISNA Halal Certification Program

Wed. 18th 
Water and Islam
Water Crisis in a troubled world
Local water issues
Islam and Ecology

Mon. 23rd
World Hunger:
Religious Responses
multi-faith pledge to end world hunger
Ramadan
Judaism, Hunger and Vegetarianism
Wed. 25th
world hunger solution
Barren soils in Africa
Kirby Anderson
Desperation in India
Mon 30th
Native American Cosmology and Agriculture
Native American Women: Living with Landscape

Wed. 2nd
Presentations
Mon 7th
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