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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Religion and religion's role in life. Beginning with modern approaches to the study of religion, this course examines religious ways of defining the human situation, the quest for salvation, wholeness, and transcendence, and the problem of speaking about the divine within the terms of modern culture. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: GOVT-105 or HIST-115 or JLS-110 or PHIL-105 or RELG-105.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate This introductory methodology course covers classical and contemporary approaches to the study of religion that are grounded in the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and literary criticism. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: RELG-105, RELG-185, and either RELG-210 or RELG-220.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Hundreds of millions of people adhere to Islam, sometimes described as the world's fastest growing religion. Students examine historical origins, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, and other formative elements underlying the modern Muslim situation. Meets with RELG-670. Usually offered alternate falls.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics on the chief religious themes of Judaism, major Jewish religious thinkers of the past such as Rashi or other rabbinical scholars; or issues such as the role of mysticism in Judaism. Meets with RELG-671. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate A survey of America's religions beginning with Christianity and Judaism and continuing through contemporary developments of Islam and Buddhism. The course also examines Native American religions, Puritanism, Mormonism, Catholicism, AME, Seventh Day Adventism, and Freemasonry. Field trips to sites in Washington, D.C. Meets with RELG-672. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate This amazingly vital, age-old religion has more than once extended its influence as a religion of truly worldwide significance. Origins, early literature, and main expressions of Hinduism (including Yoga, Bhakti, and cult of the Divine Mother) are presented. Meets with RELG-673. Usually offered alternate springs.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate This course explores the religious dimensions, both ideological and cultural, of political and military conflict. Themes include sacred geography and literature as grounds for bloodshed; the sanctity of race; martyrdom/terrorism; and pacifism. Empirical data is drawn from Germany, Lithuania, the Middle East, and the Balkans. Meets with RELG-675. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Examination of important problems, thinkers, and issues in classical and contemporary religious thought. Topics have included liberation theology, religion in the African Diaspora, Hispanic spiritual traditions, and spirit possession and trance. Meets with RELG-686.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
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