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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will examine the diverse ways in which human beings form, maintain and dissolve relationships with each other and with the divine. Students will demonstrate their engagement with class discussions, readings and lectures through weekly inclass writing exercises and application exercises (such as debates or simulations). (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Using the study of the Psalms and selected Old Testament and New Testament Canticles, the hymns of the early and medieval church, the hymns of the Lutheran Reformation, the psalmody of the Genevan, Scottish and English Reformation movements and the development of English and American hymnody, the course explores the importance of congregational song in biblical understanding, Christian history, and Christian theology. Students who are interested in church music will benefit most from the course. A background in music is not necessary. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will examine biblical texts and Native American religious traditions in order to determine what they might offer to a discussion of nature and environmental issues. The course will consider divergent interpretations of biblical texts relating to the natural world and creation and divergent interpretations of the traditional relationship of Native Americans toward nature. The course will finally consider what these traditions offer in terms of developing a religiously based ethical approach to environmental issues. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will explore the place of images in the Christian religious tradition. Following an introduction to the treatment of images in scripture and philosophy, students will study the use of images in the Orthodox and medieval Roman Catholic traditions. Particular attention will be placed on the way images are used to express Christian moral values, as for example in the depiction of virtue and vice. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores the history and the richness of the sacramental tradition in Ireland. Irish culture is steeped in religion and the incarnational life, celebrating the Jesus who ate,worked, and played, as well as the Jesus who prayed. The beauty, and the limits, of this way of life will unfold through an examination of the sacramental tradition in contrast to other Christian traditions; a study of the history and poetry of the Celtic Christians; and a reading of Angela's Ashes, (a contemporary memoir), the short stories of Frank O'Connor, and James Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ( Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of the Christian heritage, including an exploration of its scriptural,theological,and ethical foundations. The course will offer a very basic survey of the Christian scriptures, followed by a careful and thorough study of the history of Christian thought. The course will also explore selected ethical issues that have emerged in the course of Christian history. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course explores the role of religion in personal and social life. It will study the important and primary role that religious experience plays in the origins and development of religious traditions, focusing on the scriptural and Christian religious traditions.The course further examines the role of religion in society to develop a cohesive source of meaning, the importance of religion in a modern, secular age, and the impact that scientific thought has had on Christian theology. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course offers a comparative overview of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in their comparative histories, varying theological and ethical centers, and scriptures. While the course examines all three religions from a single disciplinary perspective (i.e. religious studies), the comparative method invites questions that may only be appreciated by imposing methods and assumptions from other disciplinary, i.e., nonreligious studies, perspectives. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores the reading of the Bible in the context of the history of Christianity. After surveying various ways of reading the Bible throughout Christian history, special attention is given to modern and postmodern modes of biblical interpretation. Students will learn how such contemporary modes of reading take place in conversation with other academic disciplines: cultural anthropology, narrative criticism, and reader response criticism. (Interdisciplinary humanities/religion course)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course approaches the critical study of religion by utilizing the organizing theme of gender. Our purpose is to investigate how, throughout history and across religions, the religious experiences of women have been markedly different from the religious experiences of men. We will explore how women have been shaped by religion and how they have shaped religious organizations.We will research women in religions of the world, emphasizing the Christian tradition.The works of feminist scholars in biblical studies, ethics, theology, and history of religions will be employed in the course of our study. Cross-listed as REL 273. (Elective course in the religion curriculum)
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