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2019-2020 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!
Courses in Religious Studies
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Course Descriptions
- RLST 002 PO - Ideas of Love
- RLST 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
- RLST 012 CM - Devotional Worlds of South Asia
- RLST 015 CM - Myth and Religion
- RLST 016 PO - The Life Story of the Buddha
- RLST 020 PO - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Text and Interpretation HRT II
- RLST 021 CM - Jewish Civilization
- RLST 022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
- RLST 025 PO - Religion, Punishment, and Restoration in the U.S.
- RLST 037 CM - History of World Christianity
- RLST 040 PO - Religious Ethics
- RLST 043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought
- RLST 045 CM - Sikhism
- RLST 048 PO - Nourishing Life: Techniques for Bodily, Mental, and Environmental Health in East Asian Writings
- RLST 049 PO - Buddhist Meditation Techniques and Cultures Across Asia
- RLST 055 CM - Jewish Art and Identity
- RLST 057 CM - Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy
- RLST 058 CM - The End of the World As We Know It
- RLST 059 CM - Dreams, Visions, and the Afterworld in Islamic Tradition
- RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
- RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
- RLST 064 CM - Islam in Motion
- RLST 065 CM - Contemporary Issues in the Study of Islam
- RLST 080 PO - The Holy Fool: The Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness
- RLST 081 SC - Precolonial African Christian Spiritualities
- RLST 082 CM - African-American Religions
- RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
- RLST 085 SC - Conquered Colonized Christianity
- RLST 087 CM - Israel: Zionism and the Jewish State
- RLST 089 CM - Religion, Race, and Economic Inequality in the Americas
- RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
- RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity
- RLST 092 SC - Introduction to Early Christianities
- RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory
- RLST 094 SC - Feminist Histories of Early Christianity
- RLST 095 SC - Jesus, Paul, and Early Christian Sexualities
- RLST 096 SC - Eros & Sex Antiquity & Byzantium
- RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
- RLST 101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics I - The Mahabharata
- RLST 101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics II - The Ramayana
- RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
- RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China
- RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture (3)
- RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism
- RLST 107 PO - Tradition or Innovation? The Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism
- RLST 109 CM - Readings in the Hindu Tradition
- RLST 110 PO - Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in East Asian Religions
- RLST 111 CM - Rebels, Radicals, and Religions on the Margins
- RLST 112 HM - Engaging Religion
- RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
- RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
- RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions
- RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship
- RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia
- RLST 120 CM - The Life of Jesus
- RLST 121 SC - The Pauline Tradition
- RLST 128 CM - Religion of Islam
- RLST 129 CM - Ancient Jewish Experience
- RLST 135 CM - Jerusalem: The Holy City
- RLST 136 CM - Religion in Contemporary America
- RLST 137 CM - Jewish-Christian Relations
- RLST 138 CM - American Religious History
- RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
- RLST 141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation
- RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
- RLST 143 CM - Philosophy of Religion
- RLST 144 CM - Life, Death and Survival of Death
- RLST 147 HM - World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements
- RLST 150 AF - The Eye of God: Race, Sun, & Empire
- RLST 151 CM - Poverty, Religion, and Social Change
- RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature
- RLST 153 CM - Religion and American Politics
- RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice: An Intergenerational Partnership on Vocations for Social Change
- RLST 156 CM - European Reformations
- RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
- RLST 158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
- RLST 161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
- RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy
- RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition
- RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
- RLST 165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
- RLST 166B CM - Religion, Politics, and Global Violence
- RLST 168 HM - Activism, Vocation, Justice
- RLST 167 SC - Early Christian-Muslim Relations: Baghdad to Barcelona
- RLST 169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia
- RLST 170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity
- RLST 171 CM - Religion and Film
- RLST 175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine
- RLST 176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership
- RLST 177 PO - Gender and Religion
- RLST 180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds
- RLST 181 PO - Prison, Punishment, Redemption
- RLST 183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines
- RLST 184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible
- RLST 186 CM - Research Practicum in Archaeology
- RLST 187 PO - Queering Religion
- RLST 189P PO - Critical Theory
- RLST 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
- RLST 191 SC - Senior Thesis
- RLST 199 SC - Independent Study in Religious Studies
Related Courses (eligible for major credit)
- ANTH 025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East MES
- ANTH 087 SC - Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam MES
- ANTH 088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology, and the State HRT I, CWS
- ANTH 150 PO - Anthropology of Religion PRT
- ANTH 171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion MES
- ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic
- ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic
- ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic
- CLAS 121 JT - Classical Mythology PRT
- CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer HRT II
- GOVT 138 CM - Religion, Politics, and Change in Latin America
- HIST 011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean
- HIST 012 PO - Saints and Society HRT II
- HIST 042 PO - Worlds of Islam
- HIST 043 PO - Middle East in Modern Times
- HIST 074 PZ - Queering the Medieval * HRT II
- HIST 122 PZ - Religion and the Founding Fathers
- HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America HRT II, CWS
- HIST 101AC PO - Environmental Histories of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
- HIST 147 PO - Mughal India
- HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire * HRT II
- HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race HRT II
- HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650 *
- HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700 HRT II *
- IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies *
- IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror *
- IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirtuality, and Power * CWS
- MUS 120 SC - Music in Christian Practice
- PHIL 052 PZ - Philosophy of Religion * PRT
- PHIL 084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy * PRT, MES
- PHIL 096 JT - God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason PRT *
- PHIL 155 PZ - Islam vs. Islam * PRT, MES
- PHIL 170 SC - Faith and Reason PRT
- POLI 112 SC - Mobilizing Islam
- POLI 114 SC - Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reformers and Radicals
- POLI 116 SC - The Politics of God
- SOC 114 PZ - Sociology of Religion CWS
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