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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: course 60 recommended. The development of Islamic thought from the first centuries of Islam to the eighteenth century. Theology, philosophy, ethics, Sufism, historiography, political theory, fundamentalism, al-Farabi, al-Ghazzali, Ibn Rushd, Tusi, Ibn al- Arabi, Rumi, Molla Sadra, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Abd al- Wahhab. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. Tezcan
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 60 or consent of instructor. The response of Islam to modernity: secularism, reformism, fundamentalism. Islam and imperialism, women, media and immigration. Islamic modernism, political Islam, Islam in Europe and America. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: course 60 recommended. The development of Islamic law in the formative centuries of Islam, ca. 600-1000, as well as its adaptation to changing economic, social, and political conditions in subsequent periods. Legal schools, legal theory, the Shari'a, reformist movements, human rights. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div. Wrt.-II. Tezcan
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Islam as a lived religion in the Indian sub-continent, Central Asia, China, and Southeast Asia. Emphasis is on primary sources studied comparatively and historically. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-III.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours; term paper. Origins, causes and ethical challenges of conditions in Iraq; larger historical, cultural and ethical dimensions of mass violence, war, liberation, neocolonialism, terrorism and resistance.-III. (III.) Watenpaugh
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper. Buddhism in its pan- Asian manifestations, from its beginning in India to its development in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, China and Japan; teachings and practices, socio-political and cultural impact. Offered in alternate years.-III. Lai
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Doctrines and methods of the Ch'an Buddhism, both ancient and modern. Review of ritual techniques, including meditation.-II. Lai
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Primarily for seniors in Religious Studies. Discussion in depth of a problem in religion which requires the methods of several disciplines and is important in the encounter between religions.- II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; required of all Religious Studies majors. Allows majors to integrate their disciplined study of the field. Emphasis on current scholarly debate about the methods for analyzing and comparing diverse religious traditions.-(I.)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Independent study. Open only to majors of senior standing who qualify for honors program. Guided research, under the direction of a faculty member approved by the Program Director, leading to a senior honors thesis on a religious studies topic. (P/NP grading only.)
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