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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary Roman Catholic theology that discusses issues in the interpretations of God, Jesus, and the church with reference to theological method. The broad spectrum of present-day Roman Catholic theology will be covered through an analysis of diverse theologians and approaches: existential, transcendental, liberationist, feminist, analytical, and hermeneutical.
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4.00 Credits
The seminar explores the intersections of feminist theory with feminist theologies and gender studies in religion.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the intellectual and institutional history of America's oldest college through the examination of four pairs of its 27 presidents. Among themes to be considered are European antecedents, developments in faculty, governance, and curriculum, as well as the maturation of the built environment. Significant attention is paid to the evolution of the religious context of the school, including the practice of and instruction in religion, and the challenges of secularism and pluralism.
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4.00 Credits
This course will be an historical study of the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. It will also be an historical study of what the Protestant and Catholic churches and individual Christians did and did not do--how they stood by, collaborated with or resisted the Nazis during the emigration, expropriation, persecution, ghettoization, deportation and annihilation of their Jewish neighbors. It will close with a brief study of some of the philosophical and religious implications of the Holocaust.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the diverse understandings of power within classical and recent social and theological thought. Transitions in the understanding of power with contemporary critical theory, feminist theology, and post-colonial theory will be discussed. Among the authors described: Weber, Lukes, Dahl, Foucault, Arendt, Habermas, Tillich, Rahner, Boff, West, Cobb, Butler, and Young.
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4.00 Credits
A look at the development of television ministries and their influence on contemporary American Christendom. In almost all instances, the incorporation of media has dramatically increased religion's participation in American politics and the global market. In some cases, televised church has blurred religious denominationalism and disrupted simple social binaries of black/white, rich/poor, male/female. Through an interdisciplinary approach using history, anthropology, sociology, religion and media studies we will try to better interpret this growing phenomenon and its contemporary social import.
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4.00 Credits
This course will use textual and experiential methods to explore the history and contemporary reality of religious communes and intentional communities, ranging from monasteries to utopian villages to Catholic Worker houses.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the modern historical evolution of bodily disciplines, focusing on the linkages between Christian devotion and practices of stringent self-denial (e.g., dietary or sexual abstinence) in American culture. We will attend closely to gender, race, and class, considering how these practices have helped shape perceptions and experiences of femininity and masculinity, whiteness and blackness, beauty, and morality. Assigned texts include readings on fasting, phrenology, chastity, eugenics, corporal punishment, contraception, dieting, and plastic surgery.
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4.00 Credits
This survey course will trace the history of both Unitarianism and Universalism from their eighteenth-century origins to the present. Focusing especially on the experiences of local congregations, we will explore the diverse starting points of liberal religion in the United States; the challenges of Transcendentalism, spiritualism, and humanism; the interplay between liberal religion and social reform; and the experience of consolidation in the twentieth century.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar will explore the major shapers of the Unitarian and Universalist traditions in the twentieth century, with special attention to the influence of the social gospel, religious humanism, process thought, and liberation theology. Featured writers will include Francis Greenwood Peabody, Clarence Skinner, John Jaynes Holmes, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Curtis Reese, Frederick May Eliot, James Luther Adams, Sophia Fahs, Henry Nelson Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, A. Powell Davies, Kenneth Patton, William R. Jones, and Rebecca Parker.
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