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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An in-depth reading and analysis of the principal Vatican II documents to demonstrate how Catholicism today is transformed from earlier history. Contemporary issues, as understood in the light of the Vatican II Church, are explored.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An examination of death, dying, and bereavement from an interdisciplinary, biological/medical, sociological, psychological, philosophical, and theological perspective.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 The local and global environmental crisis is examined from the perspective of contemporary theological developments, recent biblical scholarship, ecumenical statements, and Roman Catholic social teaching communicated in various papal and episcopal statements on the current crisis.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 A critical examination and analysis of the peoples, events, and ideas that shaped American Catholicism from the era of discovery to the 21st century. Catholicism's minority status and the perennial tension being American and Catholic are used as guiding principles in this study.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An exploration of the substance of popular religion: theories of ritual activity, superstition, theories of the body, the nature of worship and prayer, and the role of sacred space. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 The treatment of women and women's issues in the Islamic tradition through both primary sources (in translation) and secondary sources: women in Muhammad's life and the role they played in Islamic society; the treatment of women and women-related issues in the Islamic tradition, including both legal and non-legal matters; and the writings of modern Muslim women scholars on Islam as they look at these same issues with a new perspective and present new interpretations.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 An examination of the erotic love poetry penned by imams and rabbis of the 10th-13th centuries. We will explore the ways in which these pious standard-bearers of religion used sacred images and accounts from the Bible/Qur'an and exegetical traditions in their hetero-erotic and homoerotic secular poems and what messages were thus embedded. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Jesus and Moral Decisions challenges students to ask, "What would Jesus do?" when facedwith contemporary moral decisions. Through the use of Gospels, and secondary sources, students will lead discussions and write essays that address Jesus' answer(s) to moral decisions today.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 A close reading of a variety of spiritual autobiographies from the second half of the twentieth century to discern what personal spiritual, religious, and ethical values may be coming to the fore at a time when traditional expressions of communal religion are in decline. It will center on the question: what does it mean to be "spiritual" or "religious" the twenty-first century? Prerequisite: Open to honors scholars and other students by permission of Instructor. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 How the use of Greek philosophy and Roman imperial theory transformed the Gospel of Jesus in a society that regarded its culture as providential history. This synthesis created but eventually tore Christendom apart. The political, economic, intellectual, and scientific dynamics of Europe are incomprehensible without considering this theological development.
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