Winter 2020/Pasadena
ET846/546
Lee
ET846/546: GOD AND GLOBALIZATION (6/4 Units: 380/166 hours). Hak Joon Lee.
DESCRIPTION: It is widely recognized that globalization is reshaping our civilization by transforming our social institutions, cultural ethos, interpersonal communications, work experiences, personal tastes, and religious identities. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar offers a critical study of the complex nature and multifarious dynamics of globalization and its impact from a perspective of Christian theology and ethics with the focus on the dynamics of the global and the local, the universal and the particular. The following questions are asked: What is globalization? What are its historical roots and socio-economic dynamics, and how do these dynamics intersect with the cultural and philosophical expressions of modernity and postmodernity? What is its impact on various social institutions and the spheres of human life (e.g., religion, politics, economics, popular culture, communication, ecology)? What theological ethical challenges does it pose, and what are faithful and appropriate Christian responses? In exploring these questions, the seminar will compare diverse philosophical and ethical approaches and religious responses to globalization.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon successful completion of this course, students will have demonstrated the ability (1) to understand the complex nature, dynamics and history of globalization and its impact on social institutions and individuals; (2) to critically assess diverse theories and ideologies of globalization from a Christian perspective; (3) to grasp the challenges and opportunities of globalization for religion in general, and Christian ministry in particular; (4) to be able to formulate plausible theological and ethical responses to globalization from one’s own religious tradition and cultural perspective.
RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES: Taking an interdisciplinary approach (that studies diverse philosophical and ethical approaches and religious responses to globalization), this course offers a critical study of the complex nature and multifarious dynamics of globalization and its impact from a perspective of Christian theology and ethics with the focus on the dynamics of the global and the local, the universal and the particular. The course seeks to implement theSOTPLO“Students will have demonstrated capacities for historically and informed theological and ethical reflection.”
COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours. Each seminar combines student presentations, discussions on the presentations, and other questions (and mini-lectures, if necessary).
REQUIRED READING: 2900 total number of pages required (1700 pages required for 500-level).
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf [approx. 240 pp.].
Mishra, Pankaj. Age of Anger: A History of the Present. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2017. ISBN:978-0374274788, Pub. Price $27.00. [approx. 360 pp.].
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0199283279, Pub. Price $19.95 Available as an e-book from the Fuller [approx. 250 pp.].
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991. ISBN: 978-0631162940, Pub. Price. $48.75 [approx. 200 pp].
Kostko, Adam. Neoliberalism’s Demons. Stanford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9781503607132 1503607135, Pub. Price $22.00Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [approx. 160 pp.].
Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli. The Globalization Reader. 5th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. ISBN: 978-1118733554, Pub. Price $61.95 Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [500 pp.].
Lee, Hak Joon. The Great World House: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Global Ethics. Pilgrim Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0829818215, Pub. Price $25.00 [200 pp.].
Stackhouse, Max L. God and Globalization: Volume 4: Globalization and Grace. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2009. ISBN: 978-0567114822, Pub. Price $35.95 Available as an e-book from the Fuller [250 pp.].
Widdows, Heather. Global Ethics: An Introduction. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 978-1844652822, Pub. Price $65.52 Available as an e-book from the Fuller [approx. 300 pp.].
Course Packet (accessible electronically) [Approx. 420 pages].
RECOMMENDED READING:
Appiah, Kwame. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 978-0393329339, Pub. Price $15.95.
Beck, Urlich, et al (eds). Global America? Liverpool University Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0853239185, Out of Print.
Brubaker, Pamela. Globalization at What Price? Pilgrim Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0829817652, Pub. Price $16.00.
Castells, Mauel. Communication Power. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199681938, Pub. Price $24.95.
Chanda, Nayan. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0300136234, Pub. Price $19.00.
Chang, Ha-Joon. Bad Samaritans. Bloombury Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1596915985, Pub. Price $18.00.
Daly, Herman and John B. Cobb. For the Common Good. 2nd updated edition. Beacon Press, 1994. ISBN: 978-0807047057, Pub. Price $41.00.
Esposito, John L. and Darrell J. Fasching, Todd Lewis (eds.). Religion and Globalization: World Religions in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0195176957, Pub. Price $84.95 [300 pp.].
Davis, Mike. The Planet of Slums. Verso, 2007. ISBN: 978-1844671601, Pub. Price $19.95.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Picador, 2007. ISBN: 978-0312425074, Pub. Price $22.00.
Giddens, Anthony.Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping OurLives.Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 978-0415944878, Pub. Price $59.95.
Held, David and Anthony McGrew. eds. The Global Transformation Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate. 2nd edition. Polity, 2003. ISBN: 978-0745631356, Pub. Price $31.95.
Peters, Rebecca Todd. In Search of the Good Life: the Ethics of Globalization. Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-0826418586, Pub. Price $21.58.
Stegner, Manfred. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199662661, Pub. Price $11.95.
Zakaria, Fareed.The Post-American World. W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. ISBN: 978-0393340389, Pub. Price $16.95.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
1. At the 800 level,
2. At the 500 level,
PREREQUISITES: Master’s level students: permission of the instructor.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH5 or C1 requirement in the 120 MDiv Program. Option to meet the C1 requirement in the 80 MATM Program (Fall 2015).
FINAL EXAMINATION: None.
NOTE: This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. Textbook prices are set by publishers and are subject to change. Copyright 2019 Fuller Theological Seminary.