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Spring 2007. JORUNN BUCKLEY. Explores categories for interpreting, first, female symbolism in Islamic thought and practice and, second, women's religious, legal, and political status in Islam. Attention is given to statements on women in the Qur'an, as well as other traditional and current Islamic texts. Emphasis on analysis of gender in public versus private spheres, individual vs. society, Islamization vs. modernization/Westernization, and the placement/displacement of women in the traditionally male-dominated Islamic power structures. Religion 208 is helpful, though not a prerequisite. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 209.)
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Fall 2006. JORUNN BUCKLEY. Close readings of chosen texts in the Hebrew Bible (i.e. the Old Testament), with emphasis on its Near Eastern religious, cultural and historical context. Attention is given to the Hebrew Bible's literary forerunners (from ca. 4000 B.C.E. onwards) to its "successor" The Dead SeScrolls (ca. 200 B.C.E. to 200 A.C.E.). Emphasis on creation and cosmologies, gods and humans, hierarchies, politics, and rituals.
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3.00 Credits
ESD.The New Testament in its World
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. JOHN HOLT. A study of the Hindu and Buddhist religious cultures of modern South Asia as they have been imagined, represented, interpreted, and critiqued in the literary works of contemporary and modern South Asian writers of fiction and historical novels, including Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses), V.S. Naipaul (An Area of Darkness, India: A Million Mutinies Now ), Gita Mehta (A River Sutra), etc. (Same as Asian Studies 219.)
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3.00 Credits
d-IP.Hindu Religious Literature
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d.- IP.Hindu Religious Culture
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3.00 Credits
d - ESD,IP.Theravada Buddhism
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3.00 Credits
d-IP.Mahayana Buddhism
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SUNIL GOONASEKERA. Focuses on varieties of indigenous religious expressions in South Asia and covers salvation religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikkhism, Yoga, and Tantra, as well as minor religions such as astrology, demonology, spirit possession, sorcery, witchcraft, and magic specific to the region. Includes discussions of monastic traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. South Asian religious traditions prescribe a variety of monastic practices ranging from rigorous self-mortification culminating in death to the middle path recommended by Buddhism to complete rejection of monasticism in orthodox Hinduism. Explores the connection between these religious ideals and the everyday life of their adherents, as well as their relationships with nationalistic political movements. (Same as Asian Studies 221.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. SUNIL GOONASEKERA. Religion is a universal phenomenon that touches, if not dominates, daily life and is a force that can compels us people to be both perpetrators and victims of violence. Sociological and anthropological studies point to social, political, economic, cultural, legal and psychological facts that propel individuals and groups to use violence and justify its use by bringing violence into a religious context. Seeks to understand the relationship between religion and violence and the causes and effects of that relationship. Specifically addresses these issues in South Asian cultural systems. (Same as Asian Studies 226.)
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