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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Examines interaction of Christianity with secular socio-economic ideologies related to globalization and response of Christianity to such ethical issues as poverty, population growth, consumerism, environmental degradation, war, and genocide.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Examines the occasionally harmonious, often acrimonious, relationship between religion and science. Examines the fundamental insights and claims of both religion and science, moving beyond the frequently sharp prejudices they initially bring to their study to a more reasoned understanding of each alone and in relation to each other.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Analyzes and compares methodologies used in the discipline of Religious Studies. Selected methods include: social scientific; phenomenology; structuralism; textual criticism and exegesis; personalist and normative approaches to the study of religion. Critical hermeneutics such as Marxist, Feminist, Freudian, and Post-Modern are also explored. 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 role of the writer and poet in the secular modern world as religious thinker. The themes of alienation, anguish, absurdity, evil, hope, despair, mystic vision, and salvation will be among those treated.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: or graduate standing. This course looks at the causes and implications of globalization, the impact of globalization on women in the developing world, and the multi-faceted role that religion and religious constructions of gender play in this picture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: standing. Survey of the history of medieval Islamic thought covering mainly theology and philosophy. It examines the contribution of great theologians and philosophers to the development of Islamic thought. Examines the adoption of Greek philosophy into Islam and the ways in which Muslims reconciled philosophy and religion. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. History and literature of ancient Jewish Christianity in its relationship to Gentile Christianity and Judaism, from the relatives of Jesus through the fourth century. 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. Exploration of role of religion in the history, politics, and culture of Latin America. Surveys pre-Columbian religion, the impact of the Encounter, the growth of Protestantism, Liberation Theology, and the coming of age of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian religions. 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. Development of Christianity from the New Testament period to Medieval times with emphases on the growth of doctrine and church institutions in ancient and medieval society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Restructuring and renewal of Christianity, from the Reformation through the dawn of modern consciousness to the challenge of 20th century secular life.
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