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2014-2015 Academic 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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
- RLST 015 CM - Myth and Religion
- RLST 016 PO - The Life Story of the Buddha
- RLST 020 PO - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
- RLST 021 CM - Jewish Civilization
- RLST 022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
- RLST 037 CM - History of World Christianity
- RLST 040 PO - Religious Ethics
- RLST 042 PO - The Art of Living
- RLST 043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought
- RLST 055 CM - Visual Judaism
- RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
- RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
- RLST 080 PO - The Holy Fool: The Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness
- RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
- RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
- RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity
- RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity
- RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory
- RLST 097 PO - Dante’s Religious Journey
- RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
- RLST 101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics
- RLST 101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics
- RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
- RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China
- RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan
- 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 108 PO - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia
- RLST 109 CM - Readings in the Hindu Tradition
- 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 (3)
- RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
- RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions
- RLST 116 PO - The Lotus Sutra in East Asia
- RLST 117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine and Practice
- 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 122 CM - Biblical Interpretation
- RLST 128 PO - The Religion of Islam
- RLST 129 CM - Formative Judaism
- RLST 132 PO - Messiahs and the Millennium
- RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism
- 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 140 PO - The Idea of God: Modern Theologies of Belief
- 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 145 CM - Religion and Science
- RLST 146 CM - The Holocaust
- RLST 147 HM - World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements (3)
- RLST 148 PO - Sufism
- RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought
- RLST 150 AF - The Eye of God: Race and Empires of the Sun
- RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature
- RLST 153 CM - Religion and American Politics
- RLST 154 PO - Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
- RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice
- RLST 156 CM - The Protestant Reformation
- RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
- RLST 158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
- RLST 160 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels
- 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 the 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 PZ - Culture and Power
- 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 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture
- RLST 173 CM - U.S. Latino Religions and Politics
- RLST 174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency
- RLST 175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism and Buddhism
- RLST 176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets and Transformative Leadership
- RLST 177 PO - Gender and Religion
- RLST 178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience
- RLST 179 HM - Special Topics in Religious Studies
- RLST 180 SC - Interpreting Religious Worlds
- RLST 183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media
- RLST 184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible
- 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)
Courses with an asterisk (*) are taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. - 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 - Religion, Myth and Ritual PRT
- ANTH 171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion MES
- ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic
- ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Arabic
- ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic
- CLAS 052A PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew
- CLAS 052B PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew
- CLAS 121 JT - Classical Mythology PRT
- CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer HRT II
- HIST 012 PO - Saints and Society HRT II
- HIST 013 PO - Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam HRT II
- HIST 042 PO - Worlds of Islam
- HIST 043 PO - The Middle East and North Africa Since 1500
- HIST 047 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean CWS
- HIST 074 PZ - Holiness, Heresy, and the Body HRT II
- HIST 100WC PO - Early Christian Views of Islam
- HIST 100WR PO - Medieval Spain
- HIST 100WX PO - Crusade and Jihad
- HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America HRT II, CWS
- HIST 140 PO - Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
- HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa
- HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Early Modern Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines * 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
- ID 020 PO - Science and Religion: Friends, Enemies, or Strangers? PRT
- IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror
- IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture * CWS
- IIS 168 PZ - Culture and Power CWS, PRT
- 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 v. Islam * PRT, MES
- PHIL 170 SC - Faith and Reason PRT
- SOC 080 PZ - Secularism: Global/Local PRT
- SOC 114 PZ - Sociology of Religion CWS
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