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Course Criteria
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1.50 Credits
Kassam Examines various facets of Islamic thought with respect to religious authority, political theory, ethics, spirituality, and modernity. Addresses these issues within the discussions prevalent in Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism, and, where available, their modern representations. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Michon This course examines myth in the context of religious thought and how it has been interpreted in ancient and contemporary societies. The course surveys various types of myth and the theoretical understandings of them. Students apply these models of understanding to myths from ancient Babylonian, Greek, Australian, Indian, and Native American traditions. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Irish An exploration of religious and scientific ways of knowing. How do they diverge and/or converge How do their characteristic assumptions, metaphors, hypotheses, and practices mirror and shape our experience How do we imagine and exercise personal agency in a world understood at once spiritually and scientifically Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Espinosa This seminar will explore major debates and controversies in American religions and politics from the colonial period to the present. Special attention will be paid to debates about the impact of religion on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, African-American and Latino Civil Rights movements, the Christian Right, Church-State debate, Supreme Court decisions, presidential elections, religion and political party affiliation and voting patterns, women, religion, and politics, and Black, Latino, Jewish, and Muslin faith-based politics and activism. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Runions Examines the wisdom literatures of the Hebrew bible (Proverbs, Job, Qohelet) in their ancient Near Eastern and literary contexts, and alongside what might be considered latter-day wisdom literature, that is, works by 20th-century writers influenced by existentialism (Simone de Beauvoir, Elie Wiesel, and Tom Stoppard). Offered every other year.
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0.00 Credits
Irish. How do our beliefs, models of moral reasoning, and communities of social interaction relate to one another To what extent do factors such as class, culture, and ethnicity determine our assumptions about the human condition and the development of our own human sensibilities Discussion and a three-hour-per-week placement with poor or otherwise marginalized persons in the Pomona Valley. Offered every other year. C O U R S E S O F S T U D Y 2 0 0 8 - 2 0 0 9 205
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1.50 Credits
Staff The demography of Christianity, hence Bible readers, has largely shifted to Two-Thirds World geographical spaces and populations. This course will study how the Bible is read and how it functions in Two-Thirds World cultures and struggles. It will explore the lives and interpretations of the Bible in the Two-Thirds Worlds politics and within the economy of the spirituality of resistance, reconciliation, transformation, and healing. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Eisenstadt According to some thinkers, the event of the Holocaust has called into the question all Western thought that preceded it. In this course, we examine this claim, focusing on the question of whether, after the Holocaust and similar contemporary horrors, theology and philosophy must change in order to speak responsibly. Thinkers include Arendt, Fackenheim, Browning, Bauman, Spiegelman, Voegelin, Adorno, Jabes, and Levinas. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Eisenstadt Close reading of selections from various texts of medieval Jewish mysticism in translation, including the Zohar, Adulafia, Cordovero, Luria, and the Hasidim. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Analysis of both canonical and non-canonical gospels, using feminist methods of biblical interpretation including the reconstruction of early Christian women's history, literary criticism, hermeneutics, and theology. Feminist views of Christology and new Christologies. The biblical, theological, and hermeneutical interpretations of African, African American, Asian, and Latin American women. Offered every other year.
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