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3.00 Credits
This course explores the Indian Buddhist tradition, from its beginning in the life of Shakyamuni Buddha through the present revival of neo-Buddhism in the activism of oppressed classes.The course considers the early formative ideas of the Buddha - the Awakened One - as they unfold in the course of Indian history and society, and discusses Buddhist meditation and philosophy as procedures devised to elicit the awakened state.Using written and visual works, the course examines developments in Buddhist religious orders, lay social life, and the rise of the Great Vehicle tradition.Art and archaeology provide a context for Buddhism's compelling missionary activity throughout Central and Southeast Asia.Formerly listed as RS 1 88.This course meets the world diversity requiremen t. Three credits
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The course covers the medieval formation of tantrism, a pan-Indian approach to religion that was to develop separate but related subcultures in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.With its ability to sacralize formulations of power and sexuality, it went on to become the most widely spread form of Buddhism, with premodern forms found in Tibet, China, Japan, and Eastern Europe.Recent expressions have been found all over the world.The course examines questions of tantrism's medieval origins, its espousal of antinomian conduct, its geographical spread, attempts at its domestication, and its recent developments in India and abroad .This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course primarily investigates the indigenous religious expressions of China: Confucianism, Taosim, and Chinese popular spirit observances.It also covers those forms of Buddhism that are properly Chinese, such as Ch'an, Pure Land, and Buddhist millennialism.The course surveys sources from the earliest oracle bone inscriptions to modern communist literature including modern ethnography and the testimony of no-Han minorities of China.Sacred sites and mountain pilgrimage are important dimensions to the study .This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course investigates the varieties of religious expression found in the hunter-gatherer and semi-pastoralist societies of the Northern Pacific Rim and the steppe areas adjacent to it - Siberia and the American Great Basin/Great Plains - giving particular attention to myths, hunting rituals, tribal rites of passage, renewal rituals, and the specific functions of religious objects.The course explores shamanic structures, spirit communication, and visionary institutions in some depth, and discusses modern transformations of tribal religion in these areas.Formerly listed as RS 19 2.This course meets the world diversity requirement . Three credits.
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This course begins with a critical inquiry into the nature of religion in America and the history that led to the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.Students develop and defend criteria to evaluate nontraditional forms of "church" that have resulted from this freedom.After reviewing the origin, history, and beliefs of the major non-traditional churches established by Americans, the course explores the development of American evangelism and its impact on modern society through the "Electronic Church." Formerly listed as RS 193.Three credit
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3.00 Credits
This course examines topics of concern to the fields of psychology and religious studies such as the formation of a personal and communal identity, alienation and guilt, individuality and change, and dependence and freedom.The study considers how psychological understandings interact with personal religious beliefs to form patterns of meaning for the individual.Formerly listed as RS 194.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops a critical sense regarding the nature of religion as experienced in pluralistic America by investigating a number of groups that illustrate the diversity of religious experience in America such as The Mighty I Am, Jonestown, Morningland, and Theosophy.Students formulate criteria for judging the authenticity of religious movements through an analysis of these examples.Formerly listed as RS 195.Three credits.
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This course examines the complexity of current understandings of what it is to be holy.It begins with a brief consideration of traditional models of holiness.It turns next to several influential theories of spiritual growth, and then, in the light of these theories, looks at a series of 20th-century novels that examine the idea of holiness.Authors vary but include Georges Bernanos, Shusaku Endo, Mary Gordon, Graham Greene, David Lodge, Flannery O'Connor, Gloria Naylor, Muriel Spark, and Jean Sullivan.Formerly listed as RS 196.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the search for meaning in human life as experienced and depicted in 12 films by distinguished filmmakers.The first six films mirror this search in personal life, asking in various ways whether we are isolated and alone or linked and dependent on others.They also grapple with the problem of evil and the experience of salvation.The second six films concern themselves with the meaning of life in society.In different historical contexts they ask whether the universe is indifferent or friendly to our community building, and raise the problem of God and the religious significance of secular achievement.Formerly listed as RS 198.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the idea of the classic as a model for establishing relationships between religious language on the one hand, and poetic discourse and artistic expression on the other.What truth do classics lay claim to and how do they embody it The course compares secular and religious classics before investigating the value of the classic model in the process of doing theology.Formerly listed as RS 199.Three credits.
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