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1.50 Credits
Ng Examines Mahayana Buddhist scriptures in written texts and through their visual representations and the spiritual practices (e.g., ritual, meditation, pilgrimage) they inspired. Doctrinal implications will be discussed, but emphasis will be on the material culture surrounding Mahayana scriptures. Prerequisite: Religious Studies 10 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This upper division course is a historical and comparative treatment of devotion to Hindu goddesses from prehistory to the modern era. Topics will include: concepts of gender in the divine; continuations and divergences between textual and popular goddess worship; Shaktism; Tantra; spirit possession; female saints and renunciants; and the relation of human men and women to Hindu goddesses. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Parker Survey of the shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Neo-Confucianism of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam during the 10th to 15th centuries. Examines religious texts and institutions in the context of socio-historical transformations, such as changing gender roles, church-state relations, growing merchant economies, scientific and technological developments, and foreign relations. Also emphasizes the religious dimensions of East Asian culture, including landscape painting and poetry, theater, and artistic and literary theory. Prerequisite: Religious Studies 10, 100po, 103po, or 117po, or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Gilbert A survey of the issues surrounding scholarly study of the life of Jesus. Readings from the gospels, and from ancient, modern, and contemporary constructions of the life of Jesus. The gospels will be studied with emphasis on understanding the historical Jesus in his religious and cultural context. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff An examination of the genuine letters of Paul in their social, cultural, and religious settings, and later writings, both biblical and non-biblical, from early Christian literature claiming to represent the thoughts of Paul. Special attention given to women's role in Pauline communities and to the impact of Pauline theology on women's lives and spiritual existence. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Gilbert The first section of the course surveys various forms of Jewish and Christian biblical interpretation, examining reading strategies and hermeneutical theories employed by ancient and medieval Jewish and Christian writers. In the second section, students in the class will engage in a focused study of the book of Genesis and how interpretations of the fundamental text have shaped Jewish thought and practice. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff The inculturation of Christianity in Africa will be examined through selected studies of the history of Christianity in Africa, including the independent church movement and the roles of women in the churches. African Christian theologies and biblical interpretations will also be studied. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Planinc A comparative analysis of mythological texts drawn principally from Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures. Emphasis will be placed on the interplay and tension between myth and ritual with attention to the adaptation of mythological themes in Western drama, literature, and theology. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
C. Johnson An introduction to the great religious movement known as Gnosticism, its origins in the Hellenic and Roman Near East, its "radical Hellenization of Christianity," itsvarieties, its historical evolution into a world religion in the form of Manichaeism, its rediscovery in the important manuscript finds of the past century in Egypt and Central Asia, and its influence on modern literature and philosophy. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Wolf This course explores the history of the idea of Christian sanctity from the 1st through the 13th centuries. The readings, primarily the lives of the saints, will allow us to appreciate the process by means of which the Christian community constructed its sense of virtue and how this ideal evolved over the course of late antique and medieval periods in response to changing historical circumstances. Offered every other year.
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