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Goal To introduce students to the teachings and practices of the major religious traditions originating in India and China, including Vedic and classical Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Content Primary religious texts and scholarly works on the history, culture, and teachings of Indian and Chinese religions. Taught Alternate years. Gen Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to the teachings, history, and contemporary varieties of Islam. Content Primary texts (including the Qur'an, Hadith and Sufi writings) and scholarly works on the history and cultures of Islam. Taught Alternate years. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to the sorts of questions and issues discussed in religious texts and the ways that scholars of religion discuss these questions and issues. To help students develop their own skills in the reading and analysis of texts in religious studies. Content The class is configured to focus either on a particular issue, movement, time period, or thinker within religious studies. Representative topics might include Faith and Doubt in Modernity, C.S. Lewis and Friends, Fundamentalisms in World Religions, Feminist Theology, Religious Issues in Modern Literature, Literary Analysis of the Bible, Religion and the Scientific Worldview, and New Religions in America. The class can be understood as an introductory-level special themes course. Taught Alternate years. Gen Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to the Hebrew Bible and subsequent literature from a variety of scholarly approaches. Content Primary texts from the Bible, Second Temple literature, and midrash, and scholarly works on historical-critical, literary, and feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Taught Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to the New Testament and Early Christian literature, culture, and history. Content Primary texts from the Bible and early Church writings, books on early Christian culture and social history, including the role and experience of women in the Church. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite One course in REL or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to sociological methods as they are applied in the study of religion and to the understandings of religion which are gained by these methods. Content Writings in the sociology of religion, including not only a survey text which provides a general overview of the field, but also monographs and/or essays which develop particular sociological perspectives in more detail. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite One course in REL or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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Goal To engage participants in the critical reading and assessment of significant Western thought from Augustine to William of Ockham with attention to the broader cultural context in which they developed. Content Accounts of the nature of reality, knowledge, the self, and appropriate human actions, beliefs, and institutions from the medieval and early modern period. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite One course in PHI or REL or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as PHI 314; S-course.
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Goal To introduce students to transformation of religious thought in the modern era, from the Reformation period to the present, including such issues as religious responses to developments in modern philosophy, science, and politics. Content Primary texts on the history and thought of Christianity; secondary texts when necessary. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite(s) One course in PHI or REL or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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Goal To introduce students to the philosophical issues implied by the nature of religious language, institutions, and symbols. Content Philosophical analyses of religious institutions and symbols. Possible topics include the variety of theistic and non-theistic religious positions, the problem of evil, and the relationship between reason and faith. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite One course in PHI or REL or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as PHI 371; S-course.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To introduce students to the in-depth study of a special area of religion. Content Primary and secondary texts appropriate to the topic. Examples of special topics include a focus on a particular religious thinker or religious thought or broader topics like psychology and religion or apocalyptic literature. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite Any 300-level REL course or permission of instructor. Credit 3; 3 hours.
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