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3.00 Credits
The place of Mary in Christian doctrine and devotion across the centuries. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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The life of Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) in relation to his vision of higher education (The Idea of a University), the role of the laity in the life of the Church (On Consulting the Faithful), and the primacy of conscience in the Christian life (Parochial and Plain Sermons). Pre-requisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary thematic examination of religion in American society. Topics include Puritanism, religion and social reform, utopian perfectionism, popular piety, fundamentalism, new religious movements, religion and ethnicity, and other varieties of American religious experience. Prerequisites: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the cultivation of peace in three dimensions: peace with self, society, and the divine. Course materials drawn from various world religions, including classical and contemporary discussion of the dynamics of peacemaking. Emphasis on native American, Taoist, Buddhist, Jain and Hindu traditions, with considerable discussion of practical spiritual techniques. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to provide an introduction to the relationship between religious values and public policy in the American context. Both historical aspects and contemporary issues will be examined. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the academic discipline of religious studies. From its initial break with theology in the 16th century, religious studies has grown to incorporate theories and perspectives from anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and hermeneutics. This course will survey significant themes and thinkers in all of these fields, including Sigmund Freud, David Hume, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and many others. The course will also examine how religious bodies themselves make use of theories of religion in their institutional life and practice. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of the historical, social, cultural, and theological dynamics of select religious movements primarily, but not exclusively, in post-World War II American society. Topics include religious movements as social phenomena, conversion and recruitment controversies, Eastern religion in America, fundamentalism and Christian revivalism, New Age spirituality, and apocalyptic movements. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Examines interrelated issues pertaining to religion, ecology, science, and technology. Includes religious and ethical issues related to cosmology, nature, global environmental problems, and types of ecological spirituality and theology. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Are we living in the "final days"? An interdisciplinary examination of "end times" prophecy belief in American thought and culture; also, origins and cultural consequences of biblical apocalyptic thinking in the American experience. Topics: theories of "dispensationalism", pre- and post-millennialism, the role of America in millennial prophecy literature, impact of the Cold War and Nuclear Age on apocalyptic thinking; millenarian thinking in new religious movements, environmental radicalism, American Catholicism, Fundamentalism, and Christian reconstructionism. Secular versions of apocalypticism in quasi-religious survivalist and militia movements. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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3.00 Credits
Explores contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion, focusing on the existence and nature of God; faith, language, and religious experience; and evil, ethics, and the afterlife. Readings include selections by contemporary religious and secular philosophers. Prerequisite: Any TRS 200-level or HSTR course.
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