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Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Fall 2009) An introduction to the experience of nonviolence as expressed in the lives and religious writings of figures such as Mubarak Awad, Dorothy Day, Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ghaffar Khan, Chan Khong, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jean Vanier. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 210 or sophomore standing Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered term yet to be determined) Introductory study of the Christian theology and ethics of the Protestant Christian Reformations (1517-1650) and their legacies in modernity, post-modernity, and today. Examination of representative doctrinal, moral, social, and political issues; of the lives and teachings of various reformers; and of distinctive Protestant moral and doctrinal teachings as various Christian communities that have sought to reform Christianity in response to the challenges and change in the modern and postmodern worlds. Religion Perspective and Western History Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Spring 2010) An exploration of the rise of political liberation theology movements and their critiques of and novel contributions to traditional expressions of Christian theology. Focus on understandings of theory and praxis, race, gender, class dimensions of social analysis, and re-constructions of the concepts of Christ and God. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow An examination of the life and thought of Jesus through study of the Gospels and contemporary historical texts. Exploration of continuing influence of Jesus by study of various forms of art and literature. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Short Term 2010) A thematically organized approach to studying biblical texts. Attention to ways the Bible may inform theological reflections on selected issues of modern life, such as creation and the environment, social justice, civil discourse, gender, and race, among others. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Fall 2009) A study of the principal religious traditions of South Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, and Sikhism. The course includes readings in the classical primary texts of each tradition, as well as attention to ritual and practice. Religion Perspective and World Culture (Non-Western) component of the International Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) A study of the principal religious traditions of East Asia: Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Taoism. The course includes readings in the classical primary texts of each tradition as well as attention to ritual and practice. Religion Perspective and World Culture (Non-Western) component of the International Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) An introduction to methods and resources for ethical analysis, as well as an examination of the basic elements of Christian ethical reflection and a variety of ethical perspectives for decision-making. Special attention will be given to the correlation of theological and biblical insights with contemporary personal and social issues. Religion Perspective and Practical Reasoning (PR). 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered term yet to be determined) An examination of the doctrine, ritual, jurisprudence, and historical vision of Islam with an emphasis on historical and contemporary expressions of Islam. Special attention will be given to the historical origins of religious traditions which still are alive today, namely Sunni, Shi'ite, and Sufi Islam, as well as the central features of Islamic theology and practice, including the Qur'an, the Hadith (the Traditions), legal reasoning, and Tafsir (Qur'an interpretation). Students study modern political and social expressions of Islam, including the political Islamic movements, popular piety, and women in Muslim society. The interrelations of Islamic traditions with Christian and Jewish traditions also will be studied. Religion Perspective and World Culture (Non-Western) component of the International Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow Survey of the literature, thought, and culture of Judaism in its various periods. Emphasis placed on the literature of rabbinical Judaism and on those genre of literature which reinterpret Judaism in its cultural and historical contexts. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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