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This course explores the role of women in American Jewish history from the colonial period to the present. It progresses thematically, examining how and why Jewish women's lives have changed over time and what that means for writing history. Themes include immigration, assimilation, race, ritual, religious experience, religious leadership, and political involvement. S. Imhoff. Autumn. (A)
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This course focuses on the origins and development of monasticism as one of the central institutions of medieval Europe. Topics include the appeal of asceticism in late antique society; the role of the monasteries in the collapse and preservation of European civilization; the social, economic, and political impact of Benedictine monasticism on the development of Western Europe; and the progressive reforms of this institution from Benedict to Francis. R. Fulton. Spring. ( A)
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D. Brundy. Autumn. ( B)
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C. Evans. Spring.
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This course is a close reading of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559), focusing on Calvin' s diagnosis of idolatry as the root problem of human life and on his contrasting elaboration of true religion or "piety." We consi der Calvi n's treatment of the right knowledge of God and self and his depictions of rightly ordered individual, corporate, and civic life. Text in Engl ish. K. Culp. Wint er.
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This course examines the religious, social, cultural, political, and personal factors behind the two most prominent public leaders and public intellectuals emerging from the African American community in the 1950s and 1960s: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. We review their autobiographies, domestic trends within the United States, and larger international forces operating during their times to ask what their lives can tell us about America during one of the most dynamic periods in the nation's personality metamorphosis. We screen documentary videos of their speeches and of the social contexts in which they lived. D. Hopkins. Winter. (B)
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PQ: LATN 20600 or equivalent. Substantial selections from books 1 through 9 of the Confessions are read in Latin (and all thirteen books in English), with particular attention to Augustine' s style and thought. Further readings in English provide background about the historical and religious situation of the late fourth century AD . P. White. Spring. (B)
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This course focuses on a close reading of Paradise Lost, attending to its redefinition of the heroics of war and of marriage and friendship. Discussion topics include family, politics, history, psychology, and theology. W. Olmsted. Autumn. (C)
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This course is a reading of the Mahabharata ( van Buitenen, Narasimhan, Ganguli, and Doniger [ms.]), with special attention to issues of mythology, feminism, and theodicy. Text in English. W. Doniger. Winter. ( C)
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PQ: Knowledge of Indian Buddhism and consent of instructor. This course introduces current research on Tibetan Buddhism and on Tibetan indigenous religious traditions. The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During that time, it has spread among peoples neighboring Tibet-the Mongols, Himalayan and Siberian peoples, Manchus and Chinese-and at its height has been practiced in regions as far west as the Caspian Sea, and to the east in Beijing. Its best-known exponent, the Dalai Lama, has become one of the most admired religious leaders in the world today . M. Kapstein. Winter. (C)
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