Credits
0.5
Elements of recognition theory and transitional justice are introduced through a discussion of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Lectures and assigned readings draw on authors such as Benjamin Berger, Craig Calhoun, José Casanova, Cynthia Crysdale, Robert Doran, Pope Francis, Renée Girard, Roger Haight, Bernard Lonergan, James L. Marsh, J. R. Miller, Ronald Niezen, Karl Rahner, Paulette Regan, Thomas Reynolds, Paul Ricoeur, and Charles Taylor. The course process includes assigned readings, class discussions, online bulletin board participation and seminar participation. Evaluation is based on online bulletin board participation, the development of a research bibliography, a seminar presentation and an analytic paper.
This course employs the completion of preparatory reading prior to each class, regular mandatory bulletin board discussion, written assignments, construction of a research bibliography, seminar presentations. Class attendance is mandatory
A detailed course schedule is available for download.
Week 1
Pluralism after a Secular Age
Week 2
Ideology, Utopia and Justice
Week 3
Violence, Poverty and Ecological Denigration
Week 4
Recognition, Redistribution and Identity
Week 5
Universal Rights, Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Peoples
Week 6
Transitional Justice and the Challenges of Peace-Making
Week 7
Canada and Indigenous Peoples
Week 8
Treaties, Land, and Economic Subsistence
Week 9
Residential Schools, Memory, and Truth-Telling
Week 10
Reconciliation as a Spiritual Gift and a Social Task
Week 11
Student Seminars
Week 12
Student Seminars and Concluding Reflections