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4.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between religion, sound, and musical expression. Particular attention is paid to the interpretive and symbolic understandings of sonic expressions of religiosity including chanting, mantra use, choir and congregational singing, and speaking in tongues. Objectives are to familiarize the students with some of the key sonic expressions within the Christian, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, to explore the methods of studying musical and sonic theology, and to analyze these traditions' own debates about the use of sound and music in religious practice.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between South Asian religions and artistic expression. Examines the variety and identifying features of many Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples and images. Particular attention is paid to the interpretive and symbolic understandings of these expressions. Explores the idea of the embodiment of a deity within an image and challenges such an idea in the readings. This course's objectives are: to familiarize the students with the iconography of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in South Asia; to explore the methods of studying iconography and visual theology; and to analyze these traditions' own debates about the use of icons and images.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the major religious traditions of Latin America-indigenous, Christian, and African-and how they have influenced one another, resulting in the syncretisms and religious cultures of our own day.
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4.00 Credits
Explores how Western religion is grounded in the experience of God's presence, which transcends and transfigures the life of the individual and the community. This encounter is the essence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Drawing on autobiography and biography, this course delves into the personal religious quests of such major religious thinkers as St. Augustine, St. Theresa, Martin Luther, Elie Wiesel, Richard Rubenstein, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Mohammed.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the ethical systems emerging from various religions. Includes Eastern religions with an emphasis on the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and the different stances taken within the branches of each religion. Explores, for example, different perspectives among various types of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Examines the religious ethics of various indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, Maori, and some of the African peoples.
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4.00 Credits
Explores Jainism, one of the world's oldest religious traditions. The Jain community-a small but influential one mostly concentrated in western India-presents us with a complex and fascinating philosophy, a lively temple and ritual culture, and a full year of fasts and festivals. Jainism offers both the most thorough examination of the value of nonviolence and an unprecedented prominence of women within the tradition both in the texts and in practice. Finally, Jainism is a religion of people, and the course examines both their religious lives and the ways their religion affects their socioeconomics. An in-depth look at Jainism demonstrates its importance in the development of Asian religions.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Hinduism, Jainism, Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto within South Asia (India) and east Asia (China and Japan). Combines readings in primary source materials (the religious texts of these traditions) with secondary examinations of the historical and doctrinal developments within each tradition and region. This course intends to give students a context in which to examine the ways in which religions develop in interlocking sociocultural and political contexts and to provide a grounding in the lived experiences of these religious traditions.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of religious thought in India. South Asian religion is marked by the ongoing dialogues between the South Asian traditions we call Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jainism (as well as Buddhism and Islam, which are covered in separate courses). The interaction between these traditions shows the ways each defined itself independently and in response to challenges presented by the others.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional introductory academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional introductory academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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