MR555: Folk Islam (4 units)
J. Dudley Woodberry, Dean
Emeritus and Professor of Islamic Studies
Spring 2004 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
This
course is to help students understand the actual beliefs and practices of
popular Islam, develop a biblical perspective concerning them and the role of
power encounter in meeting the forces they express, and to discern the felt
needs of devotees, redemptive analogies in their beliefs and practices and
other elements in their world view that will help in contextualizing the gospel
presentation to them.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
•
Understanding of the basic phenomena in the folk Muslim worldview.
• Ability to contextualize the gospel message so that it is seen to be relevant
to folk Muslim needs.
COURSE FORMAT:
This
course meets as a two-week intensive from 3:00-5:50 p.m.
REQUIRED READINGS:
750
additional pages on geographical regions and topics related to your ministry
from books and readers on reserve in library and an extensive bibliography in
the syllabus.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1.
A log (not notes) of your reading.
2. An Outline: following the outline of the course give a biblical
perspective with references for as many phenomena as possible. The passages
with notes from the Jerusalem Bible in section 4.1 "Biblical
Perspective" in the Syllabus and Lecture notes should be helpful.
If additional sources are desired, see Clinton E. Arnold, Ephesians: Power
and Magic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), Susan R. Garrett, The
Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke's Writings (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1989), and Robert A. Guelich, "Spiritual Warfare: Jesus,
Paul and Peretti" Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal
Studies, 13, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 33-64; C. Peter Wagner, Blazing the
Way (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1995), 152-182 (Acts 19).
3. Do one of the following: A reader of articles on an
area or topic in which you collect about 10 hard-to-obtain articles (UCLA or
USC will be helpful), summarize them, indicate what has been studied, and what
needs to be studied and the missiological implications. The extensive
bibliography in the syllabus will be helpful.
Or choose an area of the world and, using the readers and books
on reserve, supply illustrations for as many topics in the course outline as
you can, and indicate their missiological implications.
Or write a paper on a relevant topic with the professor's approval.
4. ThM. Students also write a 1250 word interaction report on Musk.
PREREQUISITES: None.
RELATIONSHIP TO
CURRICULUM: Elective.
FINAL EXAM: None.
Last Date Edited:
March 04, 2004