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4.00 Credits
Examines existentialist philosophy in its greatest representatives, such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, and Sartre. Focuses on central themes including self-alienation, inauthenticity, authenticity, and existential experiences.
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Examines some of the main ideas and thinkers in twentieth-century continental philosophy as represented by such philosophers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Ricoeur, Gadamer, Habermas, and Derrida.
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Explores some of the main ideas and thinkers in twentieth-century analytic philosophy as represented by such philosophers as Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, the logical positivists, Quine, Popper, and Rawls.
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4.00 Credits
Studies major American thinkers including the classic pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, as well as their predecessors and successors.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the Jewish rational tradition from Philo (first century C.E.) to Spinoza (seventeenth century C.E.). Emphasis is on tracking the development of the rationalist commitment within the tradition and its interaction with religious doctrine and faith. Among the thinkers studied are Philo, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, and Spinoza.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the thought of major Jewish thinkers of the modern era. May include such figures as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Buber, Rosenzweig, Kaplan, Heschel, and Rubenstein.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an examination of the varieties of religious experience from the perspectives of sociology and psychology of religion. Focuses on such cultic and sectarian groups as Christian Science, the American Shakers, the Unification Church, the Hare Krishna movement, and the Black Muslims. Provides students the opportunity to acquire critical investigative tools with which to analyze different religious expressions.
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4.00 Credits
Examines challenges from Americans to Asian religions and from Asians to the American interpretations of Asian religions. Asian religions in the United States include two basic groups of believers. The first are the immigrant communities and their children who retain their religion and reinterpret this tradition in the North American setting. The second group are American converts to Asian religions who recreate the traditions to answer their needs. While no religion is static, the movement of a tradition to a new land always involves a certain amount of reinterpretation. Also explores some of the challenges of a study such as this class.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the Ramayana, the story of Ram, Lakshmana, Sita, and Hanuman-from Ram's exile and Sita's abduction to the victorious battle to recapture her-one of the world's great epics and a central religious story for Hindus. Explores the classical Sanskrit Ramayana, regional variants, subverted interpretations, and pop culture representations. From Sanskrit text recitation to ritual dance-drama performances, from comic books and a television series to Hindu nationalist politics, the Ramayana has provided a ground for debates about what it means to be a good king, what it means to be a good person, and also what it means to be Hindu. All texts are read in Engli
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4.00 Credits
Explores the intersecting discourses of gender, nationalism, and religion in India through the lens of Hindi cinema and the framework of the expanding scholarship on Indian cinema. Film is a particularly powerful medium for analyzing the representations of a culture. India boasts the largest film industry and film viewing audiences in the world. The course centers around Hindi popular cinema (Bollywood) but includes films from art cinema (New Cinema) and diaspora films for contrast with the mainstream cinema. Students are expected to watch films weekly and read corresponding work in cinema studies, gender studies, and religious studies. All films are subtitled in English.
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