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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation, one or more Explorations Courses and upper-division standing. Human thought and history of ideas. Survey of history of medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought. Examines contribution of some great philosophers to development of medieval thought. Highly intellectual dealing mainly with abstract concepts of metaphysics: God, creation, and theory of knowledge.
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Prerequisites: Completion of Foundation Courses and Upper-division standing and completion of GE Foundation requirements. General introduction to Qur'an and Islamic culture. Critically examines Qur'an and analyzes major themes and ethico-religious concepts. Covers different Qur'anic exegeses: Sunn? theologians, Sh?'ite theologians, Mu'tazilites, S?fis, and Islamic philosophersNot open for credit to students with credit in R/ST 212. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. The Buddha; early Buddhism; the great vehicle; and the vehicle of incantations. Transmission of Buddhism to China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Emphasis on original texts in translations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Transmission of continental civilization to Japan; shinto, Buddhism and Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism; Genroku culture; and New Religions. Emphasis on original texts in translations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Introduction to the religious traditions of Hinduism. Emphasis on the historical and textual study of Hinduism through its various literatures (sacred, narrative, poetic, liturgical, and philosophical). Explores Vedic traditions of sacrifice, the speculative philosophy of the Upanishads, the religious epic and mythological literature, the main gods and goddesses, and the devotional poetry of the medieval poet-saints.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. A survey of Indian religions to the present. Emphasis will be on the ways that religions of historic India have developed and interacted.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the GE foundation requirement, completion of one or more Exploration courses, and status. Introduction to the religions of Southeast Asia. Ancient religion, historical transmission and adaption of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and recent developments in modern Southeast Asia will be discussed. Emphasis on the religious culture of mainland Southeast Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Examines the religious and psychological interpretation of both individual and community religious activity and experience. (Lecture 3 hours)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Historical reconstruction of the life and thought of the "Founder" of Christianity in his contemporary cultural and political environment. Standard historical and religious-historical methods are introduced and applied to the preserved sources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Consideration of two factions in the early Church in Palestine in the First Century, one following the 'Apostle to the Gentiles' and the other following the family line of Jesus. Readings from primary sources, Paul's Letters, Eusebius, and apocryphal literature
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