Religion and Time

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Explores the phenomenology of the lived experience of time as it has been mediated by various religious cultures. Topics to be discussed include myths of creation and the engendering of the cosmological time of the past; revelation as the diremptive disruption of the present; messianic eschatology and the redemptive narrativization of the linear circularity of the future; ritualization of time and the cultivation of individual and communal memory; the interface between holy and mundane in the theo-politicization of space and time; the dialectical sense of the profane.