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3.00 Credits
Seminar on selected theories and methods in religious studies; may include anthropological, sociological, psychological, philosophical, text-critical, economic, feminist, and Marxist perspectives. Required for Religion majors and minors. Prerequisites At least two other Religion courses or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
History of Christian spirituality and the body from antiquity to the present. How have Christians in different historical and cultural contexts understood, debated and enacted the relationship between flesh and spirit, body and soul How have gender, social location and political concerns shaped Christian ideas about and practices of suffering, sanctity, spirituality and embodiment Topics and themes may include the meanings of incarnation and resurrection; devotional disciplines and ritual practice; sickness, health and healing; sexuality and family life; the politics of martyrdom, monasticism, and mysticism. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Survey of feminism's impact on the religious commitments of women and on traditional religious institutions, beliefs, and practices. Feminist scholarship in the study of scriptural texts and other historical sources, the rise of women's rituals and alternative spiritualities, religious feminism in relation to other struggles for human dignity and liberation and how the inclusion of women's perspectives is influencing the craft of theology itself. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Intensive reading and discussion of selected issues in contemporary religious thought. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Catholic moral and social teaching from the official magisterium and the full spectrum of Catholic theologians. The history of Roman Catholic moral theology and the origins of Catholic social, sexual, and medical ethics. Tensions between the official teachers in the Church, the bishops, and the scholars/theologians. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 115.) Historical survey of major developments in Japanese religious and secular architecture and gardens from pre-Buddhist times to the modern age. (Also offered as lower-level.) This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: East Asian Culture and Diasporas
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 120.) Study of castles, churches, sculpture, and manuscripts in an international context. Armenia's political and religious ties with Rome, Byzantium, Islam, the crusaders, Europe, and East Asia. The first country to declare Christianity its official religion, Armenia created art expressing distinctive religious concepts. Its architectural techniques and sculpture anticipated later developments in Western Romanesque and Gothic art. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Middle Eastern Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 121.) A survey of the visual arts in Muslim lands from Spain to Central Asia between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, emphasizing the role of visual arts in the formation and expression of cultural identity. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and the portable arts of ceramics, ivory, metalwork, and manuscript illustration will be considered. Topics will include the uses of figural and non-figural imagery; calligraphy and ornament; religious and secular art; public and private art; the art of the court and the art of the urban middle class; and the status, use, and meaning of the portable arts. (Also offered as lower-level.) This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Middle Eastern Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 122.) The proscription of representational images in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ideologies, and resulting iconic modes of expression (signs, symbols, architectural forms) at various times in the first millennium; the avoidance or removal of images, and motivations for and the effect of the art which it produces (Byzantine "iconoclasm"; Islamic avoidance; Protestantism; the French Revolution; the Jesse Helms syndrome). (Also offered as lower-level.) This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 124) Production, function and reception of art in the early Middle Ages, especially in Western Europe from c. 300-1100 CE. Germanic, Frankish, Anglo-Saxon, Carolingian, Scandinavian and Norman jewelry, sculpture, textiles, architecture and manuscripts. Central themes include tradition and innovation; cultural and artistic hybridity; visualizing self and other. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Germanic Culture
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