What you've wanted to know all quarter but were afraid to ask:
Why exactly did I lecture on the Jesuits?
Here is what I had in mind:
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- Example of premodern globalization
- Example of trade in cultural goods (religion)
- Power relations operative in globalization then and now (Colonialism; Imperialism)
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- Concepts of the universal and global coexist with concepts of fundamental difference
- European/Non-European; civilized/savage; male/female
- Religious belief vs. its sociopolitical effects: where does religion end and ideology begin?
Here is how individual lectures fit in:
A. "Selling" Religion: The Jesuit Multimedia Campaign
- Visual rhetoric -- Art
- Regulating spatial movement -- Architecture
- Forming habits -- Spiritual Exercises
B. Shaping Social Life: Religion and Gender Norms
- Masculinity as historically and culturally malleable -- Ignatius
- Femininity at the intersection of culture, religion, and colonialism -- Tekakwitha
C. Balancing Individual Interests and Greater Goods: Dürer and Cenodoxus
- Tension between science and religion
- Individual fulfillment vs. communal responsibility
A question yet to be answered: what kind of global citizen will YOU be?