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3.00 Credits
Geller NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Historical survey of the Jewish community from its beginnings to the present. Exploration of the elements of change and continuity within the evolving Jewish community as it interacted with the larger Greco-Roman world, Islam, Christianity, and post-Enlightenment Europe and America. Consideration given to the central ideas and institutions of the Jewish tradition in historical pers-pective. Prerequisite: None. Not open to students who have taken REL [140]. Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of the documents and archaeology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Survey of major text genres, such as law, community organization, scriptural interpretation, prayer, amulets and coded treasure maps. Focus upon key archaeological matters, including the physical geography of the Dead Sea region, the ?Essene? settlement structure, art and architecture, ritual baths, religious artifacts, and objects of daily use-weaponry, cosmetics and writing tools. The scrolls and material culture will be examined in their own right and in terms of their relationship to the broader history of Judaism in the Roman Era, Rabbinic Literature, and the New Testamen t. Normally alternates withREL 242. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and sophomores only. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and sophomores only. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 0.5
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3.00 Credits
Shukla-Bhatt (South Asia Studies) An examination of the religions in South Asia as expressed in sacred texts and arts, religious practices, and institutions in a historical man-ner. Concentration on the origins and development of Hindu traditions, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, as well as integration of Islam and Christianity in the religious landscape of South Asia. Interactions among the diverse communities of the region will also form a major theme. Students may register for either REL 251 or SAS 251 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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Kodera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of Buddhist views of the human predicament and its solution, using different teachings and forms of practice from India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, and Japan. Topics including the historic Buddha's sermons, Buddhist psychology and cosmology, meditation, bodhisattva career, Tibetan Tantricism, Pure Land, Zen, and dialogues with and influence on the West. Normally alternates with REL 257. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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Kodera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Continuity and diversity in the history of Chinese thought and religion from the ancient sage-kings of the third millennium B.C.E. to the present. Topics include: Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese Buddhism, folk religion, and their further developments and interaction. Materials drawn from philosophical and religious and literary works. Normally alternates with REL 255. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Kodera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Constancy and change in the history of Japanese religious thought and its cultural and literary expression from the prehistoric ?age of the gods? to contemporary Japan. An examination of Japanese indebtedness to, and independence from, Ko-rea and China, assimilation and rejection of the West, and preservation of indigenous tradition. Topics include: Shinto, distinctively Japa-nese interpretations of Buddhism, neo-Confucianism, their role in modernization and nationalism, Western colonialism, and modern Japa-nese thought as a crossroad of East and West . Normally alternates with REL 254. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Kodera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An exploration of the relationship between the two polar aspects of being religious. Materials drawn from across the globe, both culturally and historically. Topics include: self-cultivation and social responsibility, solitude and compassion, human frailty as a basis for courage, anger as an expression of love, nonviolence, western adaptations of eastern spirituality, meditation and the environmental crisis. Readings selected from Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Ryokan, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Heschel, Dag Ham-marskj ld, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, Henri Nouwen, Beverly Harrison, Benjamin Hoff, Reuben Habito, and others. Normally alternates with REL 253. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Kodera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. History of the Christian tradition in South and East Asia from the first century to the present. Emphasis on the Christian impact, both positive and negative, on Asian societies; why Asia rejected Western Christianity; and the development of uniquely Asian forms of Christian belief, practice and sociopolitical engagement. Topics include: Thomas's supposed ?apostolic mission? to Kerala, India in the first century; the Nestorian ?heretics? in T'ang China; symbiosis of Jews, Muslims and Christians in ninth-century China; the two sixteenth-century Jesuits (Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci); Spanish colonialism and the Roman Catholics of the Philippines; the 26 mar-tyrs of Japan (1597); the Taiping Rebellion; Uchimura's ?No Church Christianity?; Horace Allen in Korea; Kitamori's ?Pain of God Theolo-gy?; Endo's ?Silence of God?; India's ?untouchables? and Christianity; Mother Teresa of Calcutta; the Three Self Movement in the People's Republic of China; Korea's Minjung Theology; and the rise of Asian-Ame rican Christianity. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semest
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