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2017-2018 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Religious Studies
  

  • RLST 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions

    Historical study of major South Asian religious traditions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism. Comparative methodology used to examine significant themes in each religious tradition. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 012 CM - Devotional Worlds of South Asia

    This course introduces three major South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism-focusing on devotional movements and practices within each. We will consider medieval-to-modern South Asia as a site of rich literary and religious dialogue and exchange, and devotional expressions and practices (poetic, musical, visual, performative, meditative) as products of both the distinct traditions that claim them and the diverse religious landscapes in which they take place. Topics include the esoteric or “mystical”; place and community; saints and gurus; and reform, debate and dissent.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 015 CM - Myth and Religion

    Interrogates the category of myth, and how it has been understood in ancient and contemporary societies. Offers a historical survey of various types of myths and the academic understandings of them. Models of understanding applied to myths from ancient Babylonian, Greek, Australian, Indian, and Native American traditions.HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 016 PO - The Life Story of the Buddha

    Studies the making of religious biography through the example of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. Critically examines an array of textual and visual genres consisting of canonical and non-canonical Buddhist texts, visual manifestations, ritual enactments, and film representations. These multiple perspectives will reveal the significance of the life/lives of the Buddha in the daily religious life of Buddhist communities. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 020 PO - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    This course introduces the diverse texts that make up the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament. Students will explore the texts through careful reading and critical analysis, using a variety of interpretive strategies, including historical, literary, and ideological critical analyses. Students will be asked to engage critically with the biblical text, with their own interpretations of the texts, as well as with scholarly works about the Hebrew Bible.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • RLST 022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions

    Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this course is a study of major Western traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Comparative methodology used to examine significant themes and issues in each religious tradition.HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 037 CM - History of World Christianity

    This course explores the history of Christianity from Jesus to the present in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Focus on key debates and conflicts over the canon of Scripture, orthodoxy vs. heresy, the papacy, church-state conflicts, the crusades, Christian-Muslim conflicts, Christian-Muslim-Jewish debates, the Protestant Reformation, feminism, liberalism, fundamentalism, evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, liberation theology, and key struggles over missions, colonialism, and indigenization.HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 040 PO - Religious Ethics

    What is ethics? Is it the study of the best way to live, or of how best to serve others? Are these things the same or different? To whom and for whom am I responsible? Where do these responsibilities come from? What do the various religious traditions of the world have to say about these questions? To what extent do they lay claim to the question of ethics, a question on which the philosophical traditions also have a lot to say? Are such claims legitimate? Do religious traditions generally say the same thing about morality, or do they differ on ethical fundamentals? In this course we begin to think about these difficult questions, through a careful study of selected texts. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 041 CM - Morality and Religion

    Introduction to moral theory, i.e., reasoning about moral obligation and the possibility of its justification, in which the arguments of selected Jewish and Christian religious ethicists are emphasized. Attention given to the questions of whether and how moral obligation is religious. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 042 PO - The Art of Living

    Considers the possibility of a human life itself as a religious practice of aesthetic creativity. By tracking exemplars in the within the Western tradition in both literature and theory, investigates the potential for living such a life successfully, the discipline required to do so and the hazards that it faces. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought

    A study of such concepts as creation, evil, and the nature of God in recent and contemporary monotheistic traditions. HRT II, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 045 CM - Sikhism

    Sikhism arose in North India in the 15th century, and has since become a global religion with approximately 30 million adherents. This course will consider the historical context of Sikhism’s emergence and development in the Punjabi homeland; Sikh theology, ritual, and practice; and the Sikh diaspora in the U.S. and elsewhere. Within these areas of inquiry we will also engage with key themes from the tradition, including scripture and authority; martyrdom and violence; identity (from gender and sexuality to caste, class, and the turban); and politics (including Partition, the Khalistan movement, 1984, and Sikhs in post-9/11 America). We will watch several films and will visit a local Gurudwara (a Sikh place of worship).

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 048 PO - Nourishing Life

    “Nourishing Life” translates yangshen, a phrase early Chinese thinkers coined in their debates on how to best care for oneself. The techniques, spanning from dietary and hygiene observances, physical exercises, alchemy, to moral conduct and mental training, often seek to harmonize body and mind, as well as the cosmos. The arts of nourishing life are also elaborated in later Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist literature, as well as in East Asian writings. Through close readings of selected primary sources in English translation (e.g. Mencius, Zhuangzi, Dogen’s “Instruction to the Cook,” and a Tibetan tantric meditation manual), we will analyze the different recipes proposed by East Asian thinkers for prolonging life and attaining health, and the different biological, ethical, philosophical, psychological, and at times spiritual assumptions undergirding their concepts of health and wellbeing. HRT I.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 049 PO - Buddhist Meditation Techniques and Cultures Across Asia

    This course offers an in-depth introduction to cross-cultural practices of Buddhist meditation in Asia. It will look at calm-insight and mindfulness practices in Southeast Asia, contemplative and visualization techniques in China, Zen communities of East Asia, mandala visualization in Tibet, and finally, the global “mindfulness” of socially engaged Buddhists. The course will include one weekly lab practicum where students meditate under the instructor’s supervision. HRT I.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 055 CM - Jewish Art and Identity

    The course examines history of Judaism through the lens of its visual culture, particularly art and architecture. Media such as Jewish sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, ceremonial objects, synagogues, and monuments have often been employed to express central beliefs and to affirm Jewish identity, particularly as minorities interacting with and confronting dominant societies. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 057 CM - Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy

    This course is an introduction to Islamic political thought, with special attention paid to the contributions of the Fatimid Empire (909-1171).  The Fatimids, who controlled a large portion of the Mediterranean, brought about a number of remarkable achievements under their rule:  the founding of Cairo; unprecedented ritual pageantry surrounding the leader, the caliph-imam; and major advancements in theology, arts, and sciences.  In this course we will think through major issues in the way political philosophy helped to guide the empire—issues such as the role of apocalypticism as a revolutionary theology; the place of secrecy in governing; and how religious symbolism could explain declines in political power.  As the Fatimids were Shia, we will also cover various similarities and differences between Sunni and Shia political philosophies.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 058 CM - The End of the World As We Know It

    Apocalypticism remains one of the most potent and enduring dimensions of human religiosity. Apocalyptic symbolism has been implicated in the rise and renewal of major religious traditions, revolutions (of both “secular” and “religious” varieties), and major historical events. The events of the apocalypse have also provided material for some of the most creative expressions of artistic, literary, and cultural phenomena throughout human history. This course explores some of the ways in which the apocalyptic is expressed across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and beyond while also addressing key theoretical concerns in apocalyptic studies.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 059 CM - Dreams, Visions, and the Afterworld in Islamic Traditions

    Belief in the unseen and belief in the afterworld became accepted widely as two major tenets of Islamic theology. How Muslims envisioned and continue to envision the hidden is the subject of this course. We will examine a broad range of materials from a wide range of geographic areas and time periods—from artistic depictions to Sufi manuals, from messianic movements to Egyptian interpretations of Freud—to address paradigms of ‘seeing’ in these traditions. In our explorations, we will, too, trace how these visions relate to events on the plane of history. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible

    Sampling from various literary families of the Bible, this course will carry out feminist analysis of biblical texts and explore their feminist interpretations and their political motivations. Through the exploration of different feminist perspectives, methods, contexts and social locations, the course will underline how these various factors shape feminist interpretations of the Bible. CWS, HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins

    Students will examine the New Testament and other Christian literature of the first and second centuries in the context of the history, culture, religion, and politics of the late ancient Mediterranean. The course will emphasize analytical reading, the varieties of early Christian expression and experience, and key scholarly and theoretical issues. HRT II, MES. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 065 CM - Contemporary Issues in the Study of Islam

    Many contemporary scholars of Islamic Studies lament that the objective study of Islam has been and continues to be hampered by both religious and political forces. Through an examination of the history of the study of Islam in the European and North American academies this course will assess the merit of this claim while isolating what those forces might be. We will then turn to three specific areas of contemporary scholarship—violence, gender, and modernity—to situate scholarly arguments, ascertain how these scholars are making their arguments, and think through what they might be arguing against. We will also examine materials advocating for a reform of Islamic Studies, envisioning what such a shift in disciplinary boundaries might look like. 


     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 076 SC - The History and Anthropology of Witchcraft

    A cross-cultural and trans-historical exploration of the phenomenon of witchcraft (the use of magical means to harm or help others) with a special focus on indigenous religions, folk religions, and contemporary Wicca. Topics covered will include theories of how magic works and fits into larger religions and cultural systems; the role that witchcraft accusations have played historically, especially in 16th and 17th century Europe; and why some contemporary practitioners of magic identify themselves as “witches.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 078 SC - Matriarchal and Gynocratic Societies

    An exploration of matriarchal, woman-centered, and/or goddess-worshipping societies historically and cross-culturally, both real and imagined, and an extended discussion of what is at stake in exploring, studying, or inventing such societies. This course will include readings from historians, philosophers, theologians, novelists, economists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of religion, among others

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 080 PO - The Holy Fool: The Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness

    Themes surrounding the ridiculous, the repulsive, and the revolutionary will be considered in the light of conceptual hallmarks of divine madness. As socio-political strategies that signal and figure forms of decay and death, both comedy and ugliness are the skilled means we will examine through which holy fool constantly reintroduces us to the contingencies and discrepancies of the world. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 082 CM - African-American Religions

    This course offers an introduction to African American religions.  The course moves chronologically, examining African religions in the Americas, cultural continuities between African and African American religions, slave religion, and the development of independent African American churches.  We will examine the rise of African-American new religious movements such as Father Divine and the Nation of Islam, and the religious dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement.  Moving through African-American religious history, we will consider topics such as slave resistance, gender and race, and emigration to Africa.  HRT II,

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

    This course examines the influence of religion on white supremacy and the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. In particular it explores how religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and narratives were incorporated and employed as strategies and mechanisms for social change in the African American, Mexican American/Chicano, and American Indian (AIM) civil rights struggles. It will focus on how key leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, César Chávez, Ralph Abernathy, Reies López Tijerina, Dolores Huerta, Dennis Banks, and others drew on their religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and counter-narratives in their struggles against white supremacy, segregation, political disenfranchisement, and for civil rights, and social justics. HRT II, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 087 CM - Israel: Zionism and the Jewish State

    The course surveys the history of the state of Israel, from its ideological beginnings in Jewish tradition and the modern Zionist movement to contemporary religious, political, and social issues.  Two areas receive focused attention.  The first examines the contrasting and sometimes conflicting Zionist ideologies and the legacy of these ideas as they express themselves in Israel from 1948 to the present.  The second focus comes in understanding the ways in which Israel has defined itself as a Jewish state, the role of religion in Israeli politics, law, and society, and the challenges to this identity, including the multiple forms of Jewish identity represented in Israel (e.g., secular, Haredi, Mizrahi), and the presence of large numbers of non-Jewish, Arab/Palestinian, citizens.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 088 PO - Prophets, Kings, and Politics in the Hebrew Bible

    This course will focus upon the narrative portrayal of the Israelite monarchy and its critics in the Hebrew Bible. We will ask how these narratives comment on the development, institutionalization and critique of political formations and social relations in the time of their writing. The course will address biblical texts in dialogue with modern political thought, psychoanalysis, feminism, and social psychology. (HRT II, MES)

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies

    In this course we will explore physical religious behavior, understandings of the human body, and interpretations of bodily experience among early Christian men and women. The course will emphasize critical analysis of primary sources, secondary scholarship, and contemporary theoretical approaches concerning gender, sexuality, martyrdom, pilgrimage, asceticism, virginity, fasting, and monasticism. HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity

    Through study of ancient texts and monuments, this course explores the diverse forms of Christianity that arose in the first six centuries CE. We will pay particular attention to political, cultural, and social expressions of early Christianity, including: martyrdom, asceticism, religious conflict (with Jews, pagans, and heretics), and political ideology. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory

    Why do scholars of early Christianity so often turn to theories developed in modern contexts, and why do modern theorists so often use ancient Christianity as a testing ground? We will examine this cross-fascination in the realms of sociology, anthropology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonialism and queer theory. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 094 SC - Feminist Histories of Early Christianity

    Since the 1960s, feminist critical theory has challenged dominant narratives of Western history. This course explores feminist studies of early Christianity (ca. 100-700) as one historical arena that continues to be transformed by new theoretical modes: from recovery/”Herstory” to queer theory, feminist histories illuminate our ancient pasts and our modern desires.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 097 PO - Dante’s Religious Journey

    In Dante’s medieval Christian poem the Commedia, Dante as pilgrim traces a path that leads him ultimately to a vision of God.  This course will examine that path closely and in larger context, beginning with its pagan origins in Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid and ending with its seculo-religious unraveling in Primo Levi’s memoir Survival in Auschwitz.  We will ask whether a medieval Christian journey can be undertaken in a modern, pluralistic context.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism

    An introduction to Buddhism as a critical element in the formation of South, Central, Southeast, and East Asian cultures. Thematic investigation emphasizing the public and objective dimensions of the Buddhist religion. Topics include hagiography, gender issues, soulcraft, statecraft, and the construction of sacred geography. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics

    The course will introduce the basics of Sanskrit grammar that will allow for translation of the classical language and an understanding the importance of Sanskrit as a sacred sound system. Students will apply their study of the language to a reading of the Māhabhārata, including extended sections of the Bhagavad Gita, and Rāmāyana. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics

    The course will introduce the basics of Sanskrit grammar that will allow for translation of the classical language and an understanding the importance of Sanskrit as a sacred sound system. Students will apply their study of the language to a reading of the Māhabhārata, including extended sections of the Bhagavad Gita, and Rāmāyana. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture

    Explores the main ideas, practices and cultural facets of Hinduism and Indian culture. Emphasis on the development of the major strands of Hinduism from the Vedas to the modern era. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China

    Surveys vast range of religious beliefs and practices in Chinese historical context. Examines the myriad worlds of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, and meets with ghosts, ancestors, ancient oracle bones, gods, demons, Buddhas, imperial politics, social customs, and more, all entwined in what became the traditions of China. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan

    Surveys the vast range of religious beliefs and practices in the Japanese historical context. Examines the myriad worlds of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and the so-called New Age Japanese religions, and meets with kami, demons, amulets, charms, mountain worship, the tea ceremony, imperial politics, the social customs, and more, all entwined in what became the traditions of Japan. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture (3)

    An exploration of American religious history from pre-colonial indigenous civilizations through the present, focusing on three related issues: diversity, toleration and pluralism. The course asks how religions have shaped or been shaped by encounters between immigrants, citizens, indigenous peoples, tourists, and, occasionally, government agents. In relation to these encounters, the course considers how groups and individuals have claimed territory, negotiated meaning, understood each other and created institutions as they met one another in the American landscape. Attention is also given to questions of power, translation and the changing definitions of religion itself. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism

    An examination of Zen Buddhism, not as a mystical cult, but as a mainstream intellectual and cultural movement in China, Japan, and in the modern West. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 107 PO - Tradition or Innovation? The Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism

    During China’s transition from imperial rule to modern state, traditional religions were challenged with the seemingly inevitable fate of being erased by modernizing and secularizing forces. To meet intellectual, social, and political challenges that included state persecution, Buddhist leaders poured their efforts into rearticulating Buddhism through a spectrum of approaches defined by two polarities: (1) conservatives who emphasized restoring Tradition and (2) progressives who favored modernization. We will look at the Buddhist adaptations to modernity, particularly the modern state, from the perspective of religious history, exploring how metaphors of “Tradition” and “Innovation” can be used toward the preservation and revitalization of religion. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 108 PO - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia

    Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia is a multidisciplinary study of Theravada Buddhism against the historical, political, social, and cultural backdrop of Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia with particular attention to Thailand and Sri Lanka. The course focuses around three themes: Buddhism as a factor in state building, political legitimation, and national integration; the inclusive and syncretic nature of popular Buddhist thought and practice; and representations of Buddhist modernism and reformism. The course includes material from the formative period of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia to contemporary times. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 109 CM - Readings in the Hindu Tradition

    This is an advanced, seminar-style course designed for students who already have a background in the Hindu Tradition. Reading and discussion topics are changeable and selected in line with the students’ interests. The course aims to develop the students’ ability to read both primary Hindu texts and academic interpretations of such texts. Emphasis is also placed on writing critical essays.

    Prerequisite(s): RLST010 CM ,  RLST101A CM ,  RLST101B CM , or by permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 110 PO - Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in East Asian Religions

    This course will explore various ways East Asian religious traditions deal with death and the dead. We will examine how the Daoist, Buddhist, and folk traditions of East Asia historically and currently address the question of “What happens when we die?” We will look at different ritual practices surrounding death, dying, and the dead in their ongoing relationships with the living. We will also explore various descriptions of the terrain of the afterlife or postmortem world by critically engaging a variety of textual and visual records of China, Korea, and Japan. Some of the topics that will be discussed in the course include the nature of the self, the function of funerary rites, the geography of the afterlife, communication with the dead, and religious notions of salvation/liberation. By exploring a variety of narratives and practices regarding death and the afterlife, students will develop a rich and detailed picture of the relationship between the living and the dead in the East Asian religious landscape. HRT I.


     

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 111 CM - Rebels, Radicals, and Religions on the Margins

    Students will learn about religions on the margins and how religion served to differentiate some communities from the dominant culture. By examining religious radicals, this course demonstrates various responses from narrating a critical stance against the mainstream to more subtle ways of elevating radical elements as exemplary and positive contributions to larger society. This course will select several case studies from a variety of radicals in the early modern to the modern periods, such as the Anabaptists, Mormons, Davidians, Amish, Al-Qaeda, Sufis, Hasidic Jews, Aum Shinrikyo, Moonies, and Hare Krishna. CWS, HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 112 HM - Engaging Religion

    This advanced-level seminar uses case studies to explore what counts as religion in a variety of contexts: media, law, academia, economics, politics, etc. How do people recognize religion? What consequences are there for recognizing or denying the legitimacy of religious practices or beliefs? How is that legitimacy judged? How is it narrated? By approaching a few cases studies from multiple perspectives, students gain insight into how the lenses used to assess religion can enable, deepen or limit understanding. HRT II, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science (3)

    An exploration of the relationship between scientific and religious ideas in the United States from the early 19th century to the present. Starting with the Natural Theologians, who made science the “handmaid of theology” in the early Republic, we will move forward in time through the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Andrew Dickson White’s subsequent declaration of a war between science and religion, into the 20th century with the Scopes trial and the rise of Creationism, the evolutionary synthesis, and finally the recent debates over the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse

    This course looks at American configurations of the End Times, including, but not limited to, the ending of the Mayan calendar in 2012, Ghost Dance religions, Y2K predictions, The Church Universal and Triumphant, Heaven’s Gate, the Left Behind books and movies, and varied interpretations of book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. Students taking this course will become familiar with various forms of American apocalyptic thinking as well as literature from “new religious movement” or “cult” scholarship, in order to explore the enduring appeal of End Time scenarios and to question what makes these scenarios persuasive to individuals at varied points in American history. HRT II.


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions

    This course explores the role that religion has played in shaping Asian American identity and community through processes of immigration, discrimination, settlement, and generational change. It will analyze how Asian Americans make sense of their Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic identities, and how their faith communities have been sites of unity and division in the struggle for social change. This interdisciplinary course will draw from historical, sociological, cultural studies, and religious studies sources and examine how race and religion shape discussions of gender, sexuality, violence, trans-nationalism, and popular culture in Asian America. HRT I, HRT II.


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 116 PO - The Lotus Sutra in East Asia

    The Lotus Sutra is undoubtedly the most popular Buddhist scripture in East Asia. Following the text’s trajectory from its emergence in India to its broad dissemination across East Asia, up to the present day, we will critically analyze its many (re) imaginings in doctrinal schools, popular literature, ritual practices, art and architecture and, in modern times, even social activities. Letter grade only. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine and Practice

    Examines Mahayana Buddhist scriptures in written texts and through their visual representations and the spiritual practices (e.g., ritual, meditation, pilgrimage) they inspired. Doctrinal implications will be discussed, but emphasis will be on the material culture surrounding Mahayana scriptures. HRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship

    This upper division course is a historical and comparative treatment of devotion to Hindu goddesses from prehistory to the modern era. Topics will include: concepts of gender in the divine; continuations and divergences between textual and popular goddess worship; Shaktism; Tantra; spirit possession; female saints and renunciants; and the relation of human men and women to Hindu goddesses.  HRT I, CWS.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia

    Survey of shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Neo- Confucianism of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam during the 10th to 15th centuries. Examines religious texts and institutions in context of socio-historical transformations and also emphasizes religious dimensions of medieval East Asian culture, including landscape painting and poetry, theatre, and artistic and literary theory.  HRT I.

    Prerequisite(s): RLST 010 , RLST 100 , RLST 103 , RLST 104  or RLST 117 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 120 CM - The Life of Jesus

    A survey of the issues surrounding scholarly study of the life of Jesus. Readings from the gospels and from ancient, modern, and contemporary constructions of the life of Jesus. The gospels will be studied with emphasis on understanding the historical Jesus in his religious and cultural context. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 121 SC - The Pauline Tradition

    Examination of letters of Paul in social, cultural, and religious settings and later writings, both biblical and non-biblical, from early Christian literature claiming to represent the thought of Paul. Special attention given to women’s role in Pauline communities and impact of Pauline theology on women’s lives and spiritual experiences.  HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 128 CM - The Religion of Islam

    Introduction to Islamic tradition: its scripture, beliefs, and practices, and the development of Islamic law, theology, philosophy and mysticism. Special attention paid to the emergence of Sunnism, Shi’ism, and Sufism as three diverse expressions of Muslim interpretation and practice, as well as to gender issues and Islam in the modern world.  HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 129 CM - Ancient Jewish Experience

    A survey of Jewish history, literature, thought, and practice from the early Second Temple period to the early Middle Ages. Particular attention will be given to the formation of classical Jewish ideas and institutions, such as modes of biblical interpretation, the role and authority of rabbis, halakha (Jewish law), synagogue, philosophy, and mysticism. HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 131 CM - Synagogue and Church

    Survey early synagogues and churches, along with related examples of Greco-Roman temples and shrines, through their architecture and artwork. The course will explore the contributions archaeological data make to the understanding of Judaism and Christianity and how each religious tradition physically and ideologically constructs sacred space. HRT I, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 132 PO - Messiahs and the Millennium

    Course traces the origins and development of apocalyptic thought, examines those who have espoused apocalyptic ideas and lead millennial communities, and surveys contemporary responses to the “end of time.” Special attention is paid to the way that apocalyptic thought has particular aspects of U.S. culture. HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism

    A survey of Jewish history, literature, thought, and practice from 1000 C.E. to the present, exploring the changing self-understanding of Jews against the background of the birth and development of the modern world, and focusing on the European ghetto, Haskalah, Hasidism, denominational schisms, early Zionism, and the events that heralded the development of modern antisemitism. HRT II, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 135 CM - Jerusalem: The Holy City

    An examination of the city of Jerusalem, through its history, architecture, the literature written about it, and the ideas associated with it. As a city sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the image and meaning of Jerusalem has had an impact on world politics and history and on the consciousness of millions of people far beyond that of most other cities.  The analysis of various and often conflicting interpretations of Jerusalem will make use of ancient religious texts, poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, art, architecture, film, and contemporary political debates. HRT II, MES

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 136 CM - Religion in Contemporary America

    This course explores the religious, spiritual, and sociological trends and developments in American religions since the 1960s with particular attention to race, ethnicity, gender, church-state debates, moral issues, and politics. HRT II, CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 137 JT - Jewish-Christian Relations

    The course will examine the relations between Jews and Christians from antiquity to the present. It will trace the origins of Christian and anti-Judaism, and explore the ways in which Jews and Christians have thought about the other. We shall attempt to understand what issues divided the two communities, how theological, social, political, and racial concepts contributed to the development of anti-Semitism, how Jews have understood Christians and responded to Christian religious and social claims about Jews, and what attempts have been made throughout history, but particularly since the Holocaust, to establish more constructive relations.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 138 CM - American Religious History

    Examines the role that religion has played in the history of the United States and asks students to explore critically how peoples and communities in various places and times have drawn upon religion to give meaning to self, group, and nation. Covers a wide range of religious traditions, including Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism, as well as regional, denominational, and racial-ethnic dimensions within these groups. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy

    These philosophers all object to the totalizing nature of the philosophy of history, which, as they see it, has dominated modern thought. We examine the way they critique or replace it with a philosophy of language-translation, dialogue, writing in which theorizing arises from the relation of same and other. PRT, CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 140 PO - The Stories We Tell: Narrative and the Moral Imagination

    Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on religious narratives from several major traditions, we explore the following questions:  What do we mean by narrative, and how is it distinguished from doctrine or theology?  What is at stake in this distinction?  How do narratives evolve, and how are they at play in the way decisions are made?  What are the stories we tell, and how do they restrict or enhance our moral imaginations as we engage prejudice, exercise power, and interact with the other? 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation

    An exploration and assessment of African American, Asian, ecological, feminist, liberation, and process theologies. What do these theologies have in common? How do they differ? Do they speak from our experience? What insights do they have for our pluralistic, multicultural society? PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements with(in) Western Thought

    Thematically explores the many ways African-Americans have encountered and responded to evils (pain, wickedness and undeserved suffering) both as a part of and apart from the broader Western tradition. We will examine how such encounters trouble the distinction made between natural and moral evil, and how they highlight the tensions between theodicies and ethical concerns. CWS, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 143 CM - Philosophy of Religion

    Can God’s existence be proved? Is religious faith ever rationally warranted? Are religious propositions cognitively meaningful? Can one believe in a good, omnipotent God in a world containing evil? Readings from historical and contemporary sources. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 144 CM - Life, Death and Survival of Death

    A study of philosophical and theological answers to questions about death, the meaning of life, and survival of death. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 145 CM - Religion and Science

    Examines historical encounters between science and religion and provides a systematic analysis of their present relationship. Goal is to produce an appropriate synthesis of science and religion. Readings from ancient, modern, and contemporary science, philosophy of science, and theology. Evolution, mechanism, reductionism, indeterminacy, incompleteness, and the roles of faith and reason in science and religion. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 146 CM - The Holocaust

    An interdisciplinary examination of the antecedents, realities, and implications of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 147 HM - World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements (3)

    An exploration of what happens to religious practices and communities when they are transplanted to new terrain: for example, in the establishment of “old world” religious enclaves in the United States, New Age adoptions of “foreign” practices, American understandings of world religions, or the exportation of American or Americanized religion to other countries through missionaries, media or returning immigrants. Considering exchange, conflict, adaptation and innovation as multidirectional, and always historically and politically informed, the course looks at several historic and contemporary instances of religious border crossings. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 148 PO - Sufism

    What is the Muslim mystics’ view of reality? How is the soul conceptualized in relation to the divine being? What philosophical notions did they draw upon to articulate their visions of the cosmos? How did Muslim mystics organize themselves to form communities? What practices did they consider essential in realizing human perfection? HRT I, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • RLST 150 AF - The Eye of God: Race and Empires of the Sun

    In mythic cycles from the “Western Tradition,” there has been a sustained intrigue over the relationship between the human eye and the heavenly sun. From the Cyclops of Homer’s Odyssey to its refiguring in D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, the powers of the eye get equated with those of its celestial counterpart. This intrigue has been reshaped—but not lost—with the advent of modern visual surveillance techniques, like optical scanners in voting machines, weather-imaging satellites, and battlefield-embedded observational media. In this course, we will examine a range of manifestations of the solar eye, paying particular attention to the relationship(s) it bears to reality and the ways in which the solar eye operates in schemes both great and small of confidence and illusion. We will consider works by Plato, Foucault, Ellison, and Morrison; documents in government policy; and movies like “The Fly,” “Cube,” “9,” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. PRT I.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature

    Many children’s stories describe a passage from immaturity to individuality and responsibility, and facilitate such a passage in their readers. We study this pattern in works by Burnett, Barrie, Rowling, Babbit, Lewis, Tolkien, and Le Guin, with a focus on the role of ritual and magic. Our purpose is to arrive at a critical awareness of how the stories work, and to speculate on the residue they leave on our religious sense and hermeneutics. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 153 CM - Religion and American Politics

    Explore major debates and controversies in American religions and politics from the colonial period to the present. Attention will be paid to debates about the impact of religion on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, African American and Latino Civil Rights movements, the Christian Right, Church-State debates, Supreme Court decisions, presidential elections, religion and political party affiliation and voting patterns, women, religion and politics, and Black, Latino, Jewish and Muslim faith-based politics and activism. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 154 PO - Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World

    Examines the wisdom literatures of the Hebrew Bible (Proverbs, Job, Qohelet) in their ancient Near Eastern and literary contexts, and alongside what might be considered latter-day wisdom literature, that is, works by 20th-century writers influenced by existentialism (Simone de Beauvoir, Elie Wiesel, and Tom Stoppard). We will read biblical texts first for themselves, and then alongside more recent works, discussing the themes of love, suffering, evil, absurdity, and action as they apepar in both sets of texts. Attention will also be paid to the issues at stake in textual interpretation, and the degree to which the contemporary texts are afterlives of the ancient texts. CWS, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice

    How do our beliefs, models of moral reasoning, and communities of social interaction relate to one another? To what extent do factors such as class, culture, and ethnicity determine our assumptions about the human condition and the development of our own human sensibilities? Intergenerational discussion and a three-hour-per-week placement with poor or otherwise marginalized persons in the Pomona Valley. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 156 CM - European Reformations

    This course examines the origins and developments of the Protestant Reformation in early modern Europe through key reformers like Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, Katarina Schütz Zell, and Menno Simons as well as leading Catholic reformers like Erasmus and Ignatius of Loyola. It will also analyze key religious and social controversies through post-colonial and gender approaches, as well as the various ways the reformers brought about innovation and religious change within the Christian tradition. HRT II.


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust

    According to some thinkers, the event of the Holocaust has called into question all of the Western thought that preceded it. In this course, we examine this claim, focusing on the question of whether, after the Holocaust and similar contemporary horrors, theology and philosophy must change in order to speak responsibly. Thinkers taken up include Arendt, Fackenheim, Browning, Bauman, Spiegelman, Voegelin, Adorno, Jabes, and Levinas. PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism

    Close reading of selections from various texts of medieval Jewish mysticism in translation, including the Zohar, Abulafia, Cordovero, Luria, and the Hasidim. HRT II, PRT, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 160 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels

    This course will explore various feminist interpretations of canonical and non-canonical gospels. It will analyze the gospel text and feminist readers of the gospels and their methods of reading, analyzing how these interact to produce various feminist interpretations. It will also pay attention to feminist characterization and interpretations of Jesus Christ (Christology) in the gospels. CWS, HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia

    Examination of variously understood Hindu teaches such as gurus, rishis, maharishis, babas, matas, swamis, and mahatmas, who have had profound influence in the West. We will explore indigenous categorization of these special personalities and modern historical developments and trends, as well as how their messages have been variously received and reshaped as their popularity spread throughout, and eventually beyond, South Asia. HRT I, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy

    Introduces Jewish philosophy in the modern period, beginning with early modern attempts to define Judaism against secular society, and its evolution into contemporary modern and postmodern theories about the role of dialogue with the other in the formation of the individual. Texts by Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas will be taken up closely. Other authors, literary and philosophical, will be read for context. CWS, PRT, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition

    Examines representation of women and gender in Jewish tradition and how women from biblical period to present have experienced Judaism. Attention to articulation of these issues in biblical and rabbinic texts, influence these texts have had on Jewish attitudes and practices, particular religious activities practiced by women, and developments in contemporary Judaism including liturgical revisions and Rabbinic ordination. CWS, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions

    Explores the normative bases of the roles and status of women and examines Muslim women’s experience in order to appreciate the situation of and the challenges facing Muslim women. CWS, MES.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    This course analyzes religion and politics in Western Europe from approximately 1054-1650 CE. After surveying the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Papacy, it explores key church-state conflicts over lay investiture, the Crusades, Catholic-Jewish relations, gender/sexuality roles, and the Inquisition. It also examines how reform movements affected the political situation in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Scotland, as well as the Anglican and Puritan revolutions led by Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and Oliver Cromwell in England. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment

    Sallie McFague calls the universe, and hence the earth, the Body of God. How are we treating such a body? How have our religions treated the earth? Is our environment at risk, and if so, due to what factors? Are religions part of the problem or part of the solution with respect to sustaining and possibly nurturing our environment?  CWS, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 166B CM - Religion, Politics, and Global Violence

    Examines the critical intersection of religious ideology, rhetoric, and values to justify acts of violence and calls for peace and reconciliation in the name of God. Explores case studies that include attention to conflicts in Europe-Northern Ireland and Bosnia/Serbia; the Middle East-Israel-Palestine and Iraq; Southeast Asia-Indonesia; the Indian Subcontinent-India-Pakistan; Africa-the Sudan and Rwanda.  CWS, PRT.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 166D CM - Asian Religions through Art

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 168 PZ - Culture and Power

    Introduces different theories of the relation of culture to power within and between societies, as well as to such processes as cultural nationalism, cultural imperialism, and cultural appropriation. Attention given to the interaction of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, nation and other factors in the distribution and circulation of power. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

    The course analyzes the political, cultural, and economic impact of and resistance to Western Christian missions, colonialism, and imperialism in China, Japan, and Korea from 1800 to the present vis-a-vis nationalist revolts for and against Christianity in Japan (Shimbara Unchurch Movement), China (Taiping, Boxer Rebellion, Kuomintang-KMT, Maoism), and Korea (Buddhist, Japanese Imperialism, Minjung). It will give particular attention to the growing political influence of Christianity in China and Korea. HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity

    This course explores evidence for women’s religious lives in pagan, Jewish, and Christian traditions in antiquity. Topics include practices and ritual, religious authority, holy women, arguments about “proper” gender roles, the feminine divine, and sexuality, marriage, and family. We will also consider modern scholarly and methodological issues in women’s history and gender analysis. HRT II, CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 171 CM - Religion and Film

    This course employs social, race, gender, and post-colonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as historical epic, action/adventure, science fiction, comedy, drama, and politics. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture

    The Bible appears in film as subject matter, as cultural reference point, and as subtext. Its appearance in film is not neutral, rather it positions viewers either to accept or reject societal systems of dominance. We examine how popular film both takes up and modifies biblical content and symbolism, and to what end. In learning to interpret biblical allusions, subtexts, and narratives in film, we will consider how the Bible is used to uphold, as well as to critique, hegemonic norms within U.S. American society. Readings in critical theory will provide an ideological critical framework in which to understand the interplay between the Bible, film, and society. CWS, HRT II.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 173 CM - U.S. Latino Religions and Politics

    Examines the critical impact of religious symbols, language, values and world-views on Latino politics and civic activism in the United States over the past 150 years. Special attention will be paid to political struggles. Analyses of how Latino Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical and Pentecostal religious affiliation has shaped trends in Latino political party affiliation, presidential voting patterns, views on church-state debates, and attitudes on controversial social and moral issues. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • RLST 174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency

    This advanced reading and writing seminar examines the critical impact of religion on the Founding Fathers, the Constitution and the American presidency through histories, biographies, film, and primary source documents. Exploration of religious symbols, sensibilities, values and world-views have shaped the domestic and/or foreign policies of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, JFK, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. Attention given to civil religion, religious pluralism, and key theoretical interpretations of religion and the presidency. CWS.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
 

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