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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the relationships between religion, society and culture by introducing students both to the work of key classical and contemporary sociologists of religion and to a range of religious traditions as they are practiced and understood by their participants.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the contributions of anthropological theory and practice to our understanding of the nature of religious institutions, rituals, beliefs, and experiences.
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4.00 Credits
See History 215 for description.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the variety of religions and religious practices of Africans imported to the Americas as slaves, with an emphasis upon Anglophone traditions, including: Slave Christianity, Conjuration, Mayl, Obeah, Pocomania, Rastafarian, Spiritual Baptists, and Zion Revival.
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4.00 Credits
Traces Voodoo/Vodun religious traditions from West Africa to the Caribbean and North America, including the history of European contact and the slave trade, European views of African religions, and the cultural and symbolic meanings of Voodoo spirits and dancing.
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4.00 Credits
Basic beliefs and practices of Judaism, from the Exodus from Egypt to the present. Special attention given to Judaism as a dynamic civilization, woemen's roles, Jewish Feast Days, institutions, lifey cycle practices, values and major branches of the religion
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4.00 Credits
A survey of a wide variety of indigenous religions, histories and cultures of North America, with focus on the traditions of the Southeast, Plains and Southwest and the issues past and present.
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4.00 Credits
The roles of women in shaping religious history from the ancient to the modern period, accompanied by the development of feminist theories in various world religions. Primary historical writings and theological statements, as well as contemporary cultural expressions.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the interpretive discipline of religion and literature. This inter-disciplinary approach to novels, short stories and poetry is informed by literary criticism, religious studies, and theology. The course will focus upon important examples of critical interpretation and literary texts, by James Baldwin, Dostoevski, Gustave Falubert, James Joyce, Denise Levertov, Melville, Flannery 0'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, among others.
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4.00 Credits
The course will focus upon Islam. It will survey Islamic history, its distinctive forms of faith and practice, its roles in society and its worldwide involvement in a host of issues related to social, economic and political developments. The course will explore sympathetic, critical and creative perspectives on Islam, particularly as related to the struggles of today's Muslim women. The course will include opportunities for experiential learning, primarily in the form of field trips to one or more Islamic communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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