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3.00 Credits
Elkins NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Contemporary issues in the Roman Catholic Church, with particular attention to the American situation. Top-ics include sexual morality, social ethics, spirituality, women's issues, dogma, liberation theology, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue. Readings represent a spectrum of positions. Normally alternates with REL 226. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Elkins, Fontijn (Music) NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This interdisciplinary course will focus on the music, dramatic productions, vision literature, and theology of the renowned twelfth-century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen. Attention will also be given to her scientific work on medicine, the manuscript illuminations of her visions, and to the productions of her popular music today. Students may register for either REL 224 or MUS 224 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theater, Film, Video, or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Elkins NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Martyrs, mystics, witches, wives, virgins, reformers, and ministers: a survey of women in Christianity from its origins until today. Focus on women's writings, both historical and contemporary. Special attention to modern interpreters-feminists, Third-World women, and women of color . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Elkins The role of the Virgin Mary in historical and contemporary Christianity. Topics include Mary in the Bible and Apocryphal writings, her cult in the Middle Ages, artistic productions in her honor, theological debates about her, and her appearances at Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fati-ma. Attention also to the relation between concepts of Mary and attitudes toward virginity, the roles of women, and ?the feminization of the deity. Normally alternates with REL 221. Prerequisite: None. Not open to students who have taken REL [316]. Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Marini An inquiry into the nature of values and the methods of moral decision-making. Examination of selected ethical issues, including self-interest, freedom, collective good, capitalism, just war, racism, environmental pollution, globalism, and religious morality. Introduction to case study and ethical theory as tools for determining moral choices. Normally alternates with REL 200. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Geller, Rogers (History) At the birth of the Roman Empire virtually all of its inhabitants were practicing polytheists. Three centuries later, the Roman Emperor Con-stantine was baptized as a Christian and his successors eventually banned public sacrifices to the gods and goddesses who had been traditionally worshipped around the Mediterranean. This course will examine Roman-era Judaism, Graeco-Roman polytheism, and the growth of the Jesus movement into the dominant religion of the late antique world. Students may register for either REL 240 or CLCV 240 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An introduction to the main Rabbinic writings of the first half of the first millennium: the Mishnah, the Talmud, the Midrashic writings on Scripture, and early mystical texts. Normally alternates with REL 248. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Geller NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The roles and images of women in the Bible, and in early Jewish and Christian literature, examined in the context of the ancient societies in which these documents emerged. Special attention to the relationships among archaeological, legal, and literary sources in reconstructing the status of women in these societies. Normally alternates with REL 244. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Geller An exploration of the history, archaeology, and architecture of Jerusalem from the Bronze Age to the present. Special attention both to the ways in which Jerusalem's Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities transformed Jerusalem in response to their religious and political values and also to the role of the city in the ongoing Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Normally alternates with REL 243. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Geller An examination of the origins, character, course, and consequences of Nazi anti-Semitism during the Third Reich. Special attention to Nazi racialist ideology, and how it shaped policies that affected such groups as the Jews, the disabled, the Roma and the Sinti, Poles and Rus-sians, Afro-Germans, homosexuals, and women. Consideration also of the impact of Nazism on the German medical and teaching profes-sions. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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