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3.00 Credits
This course takes a historical and theological journey through various religious strategies and practices employed by African-Americans during the last 300 years, focusing on those particular strategies that explicitly defined themselves as religious.The course traces the development of the major Black religious strategies: religious nationalism (Malcolm X, David Walker), existentialist liberationists (Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser), prophetic Christianity (Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey), priestly Christianity (Richard Allen, Sojourner Truth), Black mysticism (Howard Thurman), and sectarianism (Daddy Grace, Father Divine).The course evaluates each, based on their starting-points, conceptions of ritual, and notions of God.Three credits.
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Participants examine some of the key issues being raised in religion by contemporary feminist thinkers.After a brief examination of the history of patriarchy in the Christian tradition and earlier responses by pre-modern feminists, the course considers issues such as feminist methodology, feminist perspectives on traditional Christian doctrines of God, creation, anthropology, Christology, and eschatology.The course concludes with a discussion of the nature of authority and an examination of a feminist theology. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Formerly listed as RS 137.Three credits.
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This lecture/reading course gives students insight into the modern development of Catholic theology in America and what makes it specifically American.Discussion/analysis covers the work of Gustav Weigel, John Courtney Murray, George Tavard, Frank Sheed, Walter Burghardt, and Robley Whitson.Formerly listed as RS 138.Three credits.
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This course examines the foundations and elements of a spirituality of everyday life from a lay perspective.It considers issues related to the spirituality of university life and to one's broader, future developmental calling on personal, spiritual, and professional levels.Themes of the course include historical overview of Christian spiritual traditions; key theological foundations such as creation, incarnation, doctrine of the Holy Spirit, grace, priesthood of all believers, action, and contemplation; exploration of the practical implications of such a spirituality; and reflection on action for justice.Three credits.
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For this course description, see SO 151 in the sociology section of this catalog.Three credits.
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What has it meant and what does it mean today to be a Jew in America Viewing Judaism and Jewishness as inseparable from one another, Jews remain a distinct though by no means homogeneous religious and ethnic group in American society.This course explores the religious, cultural, social, economic, and political diversity among American Jews as well as distinctive beliefs, concerns, and experiences that continue to unite them.The course gives special attention to issues concerning immigration, acculturation, gender, and Black-Jewish relations. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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The course examines the complexity and horror of the Holocaust and its contemporary historical, moral, theological, and political implications.Was the attempted annihilation of European Jewry an historical aberration in German politics or did it represent an eruption of psychic, social, and religious malignancies embedded in Western civilization Was the Holocaust unique Could it have been prevented And, in light of the Holocaust, what does it mean to speak of faith, either in God or in humanity Formerly listed as RS 144.Three credits.
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This course investigates the religious perspectives of the major biblical units, Torah, prophets, and writings as they embody themes that define Judaism and Christianity, employing all contemporary methods of biblical criticism.This course helps students define a form of spirituality from an understanding of these classic texts.Three credits.
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This course studies the major prophetic voices of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, concentrating on each prophet's unique vision of God and of the requirements of justice.The course blends these themes with the later apocalyptic consciousness, which demands rectification of the wrongs of hatred and injustice, and offers hope for a better future.Three credits.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls have rightly been called the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.Discovered in 1947, they have made a tremendous impact on how scholars today understand Judaism and Christianity in antiquity.Our examination of the community, texts, and archeology of the Dead Sea Scrolls will begin with a study of the Second Temple Period (520 BCE - 70 CE), one of the most important in the history of Judaism.This course will examine the political, social, and theological developments of this period so that the community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their writings may be situated within their proper context.Students will learn to read primary texts closely and secondary texts critically as they consider the influence and relationship between texts and their community.Three credits.
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