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1.50 Credits
Lejon Explores the history of Christianity from Jesus to the present in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Focus on key debates and controversies over the canon of Scripture, orthodoxy versus heresy, the papacy, church-state conflicts, the crusades, Christian- Muslim-Jewish debates, the protestant Reformation, protestant feminism, liberalism, fundamentalism, evangelicalism and pentecostalism, liberation theology, and key struggles over missions, colonialism, and indigenization. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Eisenstadt How do various world religions accommodate moral reasoning to their fundamental understanding of the universe What experiential factors and models of decision-making are at work in prescribing personal and social conduct In asking such questions, what do we discover about our own ethical orientation, religious or secular Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Introduction to moral theory, i.e., reasoning about moral obligation and the possibility of its justification, in which the arguments of selected Jewish and Christian religious ethicists are emphasized. Attention given to the questions of whether and how moral obligation is religious. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Davis A study of such concepts as creation, evil, and the nature of God in recent and contemporary monotheistic traditions. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Van Heest Analysis of a wide selection of biblical texts, using feminist strategies of interpretation. Consideration of readings of these texts by and with women from different cultural and religious traditions. Artistic representations of biblical texts produced by men of the Western tradition provide a contrast to modern and contemporary feminist biblical interpretations. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
D. Smith Themes surrounding the ridiculous, the repulsive, and the revolutionary will be considered in the light of conceptual hallmarks of divine madness. As socio-political strategies that signal and figure forms of decay and death, both comedy and ugliness are the skilled means we will examine through which holy fool constantly reintroduces us to the contingencies and discrepancies of the world. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Burkhart This course will examine the concepts of gender and gender roles as they are manifested in the spiritual ecology of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The multi-carious and complex notions of gender, very often divorced from biological sex, will be addressed, with particular emphasis on the concept of the feminine and its place in stories of origin, place, and power, as well as the roles of women in religion, politics, and ecology. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Burkhart The course will examine sacred places of a variety of Indigenous communities and their response to the development of their sacred places, and will address what it means for a place to be sacred, what it takes for a place to be deemed such, and what results and requirements arise for the communities and beyond in regard to places that are sacred. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Choa This course examines historical and ethnographic sources of Chinese society dating from the late imperial era to the present. Particular attention will be paid to kinship, gender, ritual, ethnicity, popular practice, and state discourse since the 1949 revolution. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Van Heest The bible is a colonial text, both because it references ancient structures of dominance and because of its collusion in modern empire and globalization. This course will closely examine influential text passages and investigate scriptural imperialism in historical context, with special emphasis on biblical interpretation by both colonizer and colonized in the global south. Offered every other year.
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