Sovereignty and Secularization (RS 3CC3)
Winter 2009

TEXT SUMMARY 3

Assignment due in class on January 27* from students who did not prepare Text Summary 1 or 2

*Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in tutorial and in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due.  If you have to miss that day's class, please contact the instructor or TA to make alternate arrangements.

Please prepare a written summary (2-3 pages** long) of:

(if you will be in Tutorial Group 1:) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "On Civil Religion," book IV, chapter VIII of On the Social Contract (1762), trans. Donald A. Cress, in Basic Political Writings (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987) [selection in Coursepack 1 / book ordered for reserve / copy to be placed on reserve] 

(if you will be in Tutorial Group 2:) Robert N. Bellah, "Civil Religion in America" (1967), from Beyond Belief [article in Coursepack 1 / book on reserve]

In preparing this summary, please follow the guidelines in: 

  • Hugo Bedau, Thinking and Writing About Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2002), pp. 7-15 [selection in Coursepack 1 / book on reserve]
  • Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources, pp. 1-5; 20 ("Abbreviated Citation for Frequently Used Sources"), and 37-38 ("In-Text Style for the Humanities") [selection in Coursepack 1 / purchase book / book on reserve]

**Please print your assignment double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font.  Please number and staple the pages you hand in. 

Please keep a copy of your summary to refer to in our class discussion.

 

posted/distributed January 20, 2009