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Course Criteria
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1.50 Credits
Staff An analysis of women's stories, experiences, and institutions as portrayed in ancient sacred, historical classical, and novelistic literature. Identification and comparison of prescriptive, descriptive, and imaginative discourses in the portrayal of women's activities will enable a reconstruction of fluid categories of women's lives in antiquity and their concomitant experiences. Analysis facilitates a reconstruction of spheres of female activity. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Espinosa, Lejon This course employs critical social, race, gender, and postcolonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as: Historical Epic ( 10 Commandments, the Passion, the Mission), Action/Adventure ( Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pocahontas), Science Fiction ( Star Wars, the Matrix), Comedy ( Heaven Can Wait, Born in East L.A.), Drama ( Schindler's List, the Exorcist, the Apostle), and Politics ( Platoon, Malcolm X, or Romero). Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Runions Examines biblical narratives, allusions, subtexts in film for their complicity with, or resistance to, hegemonic norms with U.S. American society. Readings in critical theory will provide a theoretical framework in which to understand the interplay between the production of ideology, Hollywood, the Bible and Society. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
U.S. Latino Religions and Politics. Espinosa Examines the critical impact of religion on Latino politics and civic activism in the United States. Special attention will be paid to religion and the Chicano movement, César Chávez's farmworkers struggle, Reies LópTijerina's land grant fight, the Sanctuary movement, and the Elián González controversy. This will be followed byanalyses of how Latino Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal religious affiliation has shaped trends in Latino political party affiliation, presidential voting patterns, views on church-state debates, and attitudes on controversial social and moral issues. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Espinosa, Lejon This advanced reading and writing seminar explores how religious symbols, sensibilities, values, and world-views shaped the Founding Fathers and the domestic and/ or foreign policies of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, JFK, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. Special attention will be paid to civil religion, religious pluralism, and key theoretical interpretations of religion and the presidency. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Shimkhada Examines how different cultures have conceived of the Divine as gendered. Main themes include the nature of myths and their relation to reality, the significance of myths for women's and men's role modeling, feministtheories of religion, including the patriarchal inversion of myths, and the role of historical change in interpreting mythical texts. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Current contexts of globalization, violence, HIV/AIDS, human rights, and multi-religiosity will be studied in conjunction with feminist New Testament hermeneutics. Only one or two of these thematic contexts will be studied each semester. The current focus will be on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic or violence. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Van Heest This course will look at the ways in which "gender"and "religion" interact within various historical andcultural contexts to reinforce, contradict, and also resist traditional notions of gender and religious experience. Attention will be paid to how religion affects experiences of gender and how gender affects experiences of religion. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Eisenstadt Focusing on the relationship of Judaism to contemporary culture, the course takes up such issues as anti-Semitism, assimilation, Zionism, Jewish self-hatred, feminist Judaism, queer Judaism, and Judaism in postmodern philosophy. Texts read will be drawn from a wide range of genres. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Tirres This introductory course broaches three questions basic to the study of religion: What is the essence of religion What is its origin What is its social function Various theories and traditions will be considered. Offered every year.
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