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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Moral and Ethical Discernment. Cross-listed as Women’s Studies (WST 224). This course will explore the place of women in the three Western monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). The course will explore the views of women found in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the non-canonical Gospels, and the Koran. It will also explore modern attempts to rework the biblical tradition (e.g., in the novel The Red Tent) and to confront the Islamic revolution (e.g., in the graphic novels Persepolis I & II). The class will also explore a number of contentious gender related issues (e.g., birth control, women clergy, traditional marriage, homosexuality.) Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as HUM/PHI 231. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Chautauqua Society and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. The objective of this course is to consider the human imagination as it gives rise to certain visions which speak to dimensions of human experience with respect to a depth otherwise lost and hidden in the everyday world. The course explores the predicaments of evil and suffering, joy and silence. To gain an understanding of the need for visions about the boundaries and depths which open within human experience. Prerequisite: REL 109 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Civic Responsibility. Fulfills Service Learning requirement. Cross-listed as HUM/PHI 232. Learning experience through participation as a volunteer for approximately four hours per week in a community-based agency within the area. Students will also be expected to keep a journal account of their experiences and attend class every other week for about an hour to process with others what is being learned. The focus of the course is to help students gain an appreciation that being of service to others is a way of learning and a way of growing as a person. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Affective Judgment. Cross-listed as PHI 234. The focus of this interdisciplinary course is to engage in healthy dialogue with respect to problems and possibilities, conflicts and complementarities, differences and/or similarities of religious and scientific perspectives. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: REL 109 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. Cross-listed as HUM/PHI 308. This course will help the student appreciate the religious and spiritual approaches of both the East and West. Attention will be paid to such classic Indian traditions as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism; to such Western spiritual traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and to Native American and Goddess worship. Offered Each Year.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Moral and Ethical Discernment. Cross-listed as PHI 309. This course analyzes the variety of historical, religious, philosophical and political issues posed by the Nazi policy of systematic genocide. We will explore religious and racial anti-Semitism, the philosophy of fascism, the logic of genocide and the development and implementation of the final solution. Attention will also be paid to concentration camp life and to its effect upon the perpetrators and the survivors. Offered Each Year.
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3.00 Credits
The interaction between religious values and contemporary moral concerns. A discussion of selected ethical topics and perspective, nature of religious ethics and the meaning of religious values for modern society. Prerequisite: REL109 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered Alternate Years.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Moral and Ethical Discernment. The purpose of this course is to analyze the relationship of theology to literature by examining the religious dimensions as they are portrayed in modern creative literature. Themes to be developed will be: religious perspectives in eastern and western religions, the pursuit of religious identity in western culture, good and evil, relationship of sacred to profane, the loss of innocence, love, suffering, freedom and destiny, time and eternity. Prerequisite: REL 109 or permission of instructor or Department Chair. Offered Alternate Years.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Critical Thinking. This course will examine recent trends within New Testament scholarship, with particular attention to recent scholarship on the Gospel. The course will focus on three large sets of topics: methodological questions (what is the best approach to reading the Gospels?), ideological questions (what is place of gender and social status in the analysis of the Gospels?) and historical questions (what is the relationship between the Gospels and their historical environment?). In particular, the course will focus on the following topics: historical reconstructions of the situation in Palestine during and immediately following the life of Jesus; feminist readings of the Gospel; Christian conflicts with Judaism; the relationship between early Christianity and the Roman empire; and the interrelationship between the Gospels. Students will be asked to read and evaluate the recent forms of criticism and to draw their own conclusions on how best to approach the text. Offered As Needed.
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