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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the nature and role of religion as a source of meaning in human life. The course will combine the academic study of religion-i.e., How does one study religion? - with an introduction to four major world religious traditions - i.e., beliefs, symbols, ideas, and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The course will focus on a variety of dimensions and ways of being religious within each tradition.
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4.00 Credits
This course aims to introduce students to various s=views and evaluations of religious traditions by contemporary women scholars. Religious traditions include Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Chrisitanity, Judaism, and Shamanism. The focus of this course is to explore how religious traditions have been the source of both oppression and liberation in the lives of women, by examining religious teachings as well attitudes about the roles of gender, and other issues concerning women. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Islam. It explores Islam and the world. Islam embodies a vision that shapes spirit and society. This course seeks to identify and analyze major themes that reflect Islam's persistent presence over a period of 1400 years, impacting souls and societies from Mecca to American and beyond. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the experiences of Muslim women across generation and ethnic background. Using Muslim women's voices as the frame of analysis, students examine how Islam signifies multiple, often competing, expressions of faith and practice. Students will analyze how women's distinct cultural and economic locations influence how they interpret the Qur'an and Hadith, the two primary sources of Muslim practice. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
This course is an intensive introduction to African derived religions from an ethnographic perspective. It begins with an introduction to the anthropological study of religion, including interpretive concepts such as sacred and syncretism. This course will critically interrogate these concepts during the semester through concrete ethnographic readings. The course pays particular attention to religions in Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and the United States, as well as to some of their West and Central African inspirations. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introdution to the growing body of literature that explores women's reflections on religion, theism, sacred texts, and religious and moral traditions. Themes of study include, but are not limited to, women's experiences, patriarchy in religion and society, women's moral agency, and women's religious participation. Prerequisite: SREL 111 or SREL 112 (Area III)
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4.00 Credits
This course aims to introduce students to a variety of Eastern religious traditions, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. The goal of this course is for students to acquire knowledge on Eastern religious traditions and to explore different perspectives and positions in these traditions. Although primary focus will be given to religious practices and institutions in the East Asian context, this course will explore how these religious traditions have been affected by their introduction to North American context. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
This course studies the development of Christianity, beginning with the life of Jesus in the four Gospels and the origin of Christianity growing out of that life and the subsequent development of the Church through the work of the apostles and their successors. The course will follow the history of Christianity down through the ages, distinguishing between the Church of the West, namely Roman Chatholicism, and the Orthodox Church of the East. The theologies that grew out of Christianity will also be considered. Prerequisite: SREL 111 or SREL 112. (Area II)
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
This seminar critically examines methodological questions & interpretive paradigms in the academic study of religion. Socio-historical, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and moral methods will be considered. Students begin to design their own creative research project. Juniors ONLY. Prerequisite: SREL 111 and SPHI 220.
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