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1.50 Credits
Humes Examination of variously understood Hindu teachers such as gurus, rishis, maharishis, babas, matas, swamis, and mahatmas, who have had profound influence in the West. We will explore indigenous categorization of these special personalities and modern historical developments and trends, as well as how their messages have been variously received and reshaped as their popularity spread throughout, and eventually beyond, South Asia. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Eisenstadt, Portnoff Introduces Jewish philosophy in the modern period, beginning with early modern attempts to define Judaism as against secular society, and its evolution in contemporary modern and postmodern theories about the role of dialogue with the other in the formation of the individual. Texts by Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, and Emmanuael Levinas will be taken up closely. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Gilbert Examination of the representation of women and gender in Jewish tradition and how women from the biblical period to the present have experienced Judaism. Special attention is given to the articulation of these issues in biblical and rabbinic texts, the influence these texts have had on shaping Jewish attitudes and practices, the particular religious activities practiced by women, and developments in contemporary Judaism, including liturgical revisions and Rabbinic ordination. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Kassam Explores the normative bases of the roles and status of women and examines Muslim women's experience in various parts of the Muslim world in order to appreciate the situation of and the challenges facing Muslim women. Focal themes are the construction of gender, sexuality, seclusion, and spirituality. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Examination of the topic in philosophical and mythical texts from five different religious traditions. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Espinosa Examines the critical intersection of religious ideology, politics, and violence. In particular, it will analyze how Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists have used religious ideology, rhetoric, and values to justify acts of violence and calls for peace and reconciliation in the name of God. The course will explore case studies that include attention to conflicts in Europe - Northern Ireland & Bosnia/Serbia; the Middle East - Israel- Palestine & Iraq; Southeast Asia - Indonesia; the Indian Subcontinent - India-Pakistan; Africa - the Sudan andRwanda. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Parker Examines models of resistance to monoculture as imposed by (neo)imperial and capitalist relations and selected European scientific truth systems. Readings and exercises survey systems that survive monoculture and provide resources for egalitarian relations, spiritual values, and sustainable societies such as Curanderismo, Santeria, Buddhism, Chinese science, Wicca, and other traditions. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Introduces different theories of the relation of culture to power within and between societies, as well as to such processes as cultural nationalism, cultural imperialism, and cultural appropriation. Attention will be given to the interaction of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, nation, and other factors in the distribution and circulation of power. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Forester Since the advent of Liberation Theology, the Church in Latin America has become a deeply fractured institution. This course looks at the powerful currents that have swept Catholicism and nourished broad-based social movements during the 20th century. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Ng Studies the making of religious biography through the example of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. Critically examines an array of textual and visual genres consisting of canonical and non-canonical Buddhist texts, visual manifestations, ritual enactments and film representations. These multiple perspectives will reveal the significance of the life/lives of the Buddha in the daily religious life of Buddhist community. Offered every year.
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