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3.00 Credits
In this course, students explore aspects of Jewish culture and images of Jews and Judaism through the lenses of gender and sexuality. They examine ideologies, images, and practices from Jewish traditions with an eye to the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed, maintained, contested, and/or transformed through them. Feminist Jews and Judaism serve as sources for insight and critique as well as constructive resources for religious reflection, ritual, and visions of Judaism's future. C. Baker.
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This seminar develops a comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's religious thought and its influences. The course centers on Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality in the mature writings. Part one involves a close reading of On the Genealogy of Morality and The Antichrist. Part two examines the themes of critique and tradition, religion and imagination, and the limits of morality. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or religious studies. Recommended background: Religious Studies 243. Not open to students who have received credit for Philosophy/Religious Studies 315. Not open to students who have received credit for PL/RE 315. Enrollment limited to 15. Staff.
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Were witches and heretics really tortured in the Spanish Inquisition's infamous jails This course examines both the institution of the Spanish Inquisition and the lives of those who came before it. The sins that concerned the Inquisition depended on the time and place, and the crimes prosecuted in sixteenth-century Spain or eighteenth-century New Spain reveal a great deal about early modern (ca. 1500-1800) culture and society. Students read and analyze original Inquisition cases from Spain and New Spain as well as consider the ways historians have used cases to investigate topics such as sexuality and marriage, witchcraft, and the persecution of Jews and Muslims. Enrollment limited to 15. (European.) (Latin American.) (Premodern.) [W2] K. Melvin.
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This course introduces students to cinematic representations of religion in feature and documentary films. Films about religion are cultural documents in and through which individual artists, religious and nonreligious groups, and nations symbolically construct their conceptions of themselves and the world. They are also the occasion for political, social, and cultural debates about ethnic and national identities. This course adopts a cultural studies approach to the study of films about religion and invites students to investigate the public debate and interdisciplinary questions and issues raised by the release of films such as Jesus of Montreal ( Canada), The Last Temptation of Christ ( the United States), The Mahabharata ( England and India), Shoah ( France), and The Color Purple ( the United States). Enrollment limited to 40 per section. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Historically, on a global scale, religious experience appears to be ubiquitous as well as uniquely compelling. In today's interdependent "global village," however, religious diversity, competing truth claims, religious misunderstanding, and religious violence are facts of life, inviting creative thought and initiative. This course promotes an informed understanding of the essential beliefs and practices of several of the world's major religious traditions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - while focusing on contemporary scholarship and voices from within each of these traditions on "religious encounter." Enrollment limited to 40. [W2] S. Schomburg.
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This course offers a comparative study of mysticism in religious formations east and west. It primarily examines mystical experience through the first-order accounts, autobiographies and instruction manuals of individuals and communities. The course concludes with considerations of historical, anthropological, and religious interpretations of mysticism. Enrollment limited to 40. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the comparative study of religion centering on the ways in which various traditions have addressed a basic question: What happens to humans when they die Primary attention is given to the answers of at least three of the following religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese and Japanese religions. Ways of studying these answers in their many dimensions (ritual, doctrinal, mythological, sociological, psychological) are introduced; and topics such as notions of heaven and hell, reincarnation, relics, burial patterns, ghosts, visionary journeys to the other world, quests for immortality, near-death experiences, and resurrections are addressed. Enrollment limited to 40. J. Strong.
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3.00 Credits
What is "religion" and how can we make sense of this varied and critically important aspect of human history and personal experience The course examines a variety of religious phenomena and diverse scholarly attempts to understand them. Studies are drawn from Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, African, and Native American traditions as well as ostensibly "secular" contemporary American culture. Themes include notions of sacrality; scripture and wisdom traditions; religious ethics; the roles of the mind, body, and emotions in religious experience; ritual; religious imagery; religious violence; evil and suffering; and gender and religious experience. Enrollment limited to 25. Normally offered every year. S. Schomburg.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the variety of ways human conceptions of sexuality are constructed, complicated, consecrated, and institutionalized by religious discourses. This course examines major doctrines, institutional rituals and practices, and visual representations concerning sexuality in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Additional topics include figurations of the sacred; myths of origin; gender; singleness, marriage, and celibacy; sexual orientation; sanctified and taboo sexual practices; eroticism and mysticism; and religious iconography. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 40. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
The literary works of Jewish sages were largely formed under the impact of catastrophe. This course surveys how social, religious, and political events shaped Jewish writings, beginning with the postbiblical works of the Chariot in the first century B.C.E. and C.E., through the Qabbala (Jewish mysticism) in thirteenth-century Spain, to the Hassidic movement in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe. This course includes readings from the Book of Formation, the Zohar, and stories of Hassidic masters, as well as interpretive texts. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 40. Staff.
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