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  • RLGN 440: Insiders and Outsiders in the Study of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    This course will provide an introduction to one of the most important theoretical and methodological issues in the social sciences and in religious studies, namely, the epistemic authority of the insider and of the outsider. We will read books and articles, both classical and contemporary, on the topic. My goal is to place students at the center of a contemporary debate in the study of religion. We will also examine both hypothetical and actual communities that uphold insider epistemologies.
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  • RLGN 445: Religion and Horror

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    This seminar explores relations among religion, horror, and the monstrous in ancient scripture and contemporary horror. Course readings, discussions, and research projects approach the subject from two distinct but related directions: first, a focus on elements of horror and the monstrous in biblical and related ancient mythic and ritual texts; second, an examination of religious dimensions in the modern horror, especially as found in representations of monstrosity in literature and film. Offered as RLGN 345 and RLGN 445.
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  • RLGN 449: Biocultural Approaches to Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    This course studies religious beliefs and rituals from a biocultural perspective. A biocultural approach to religion is based on the idea that human religiosity is informed by both our evolutionary biological makeup and by our ability to construct culture to adapt to variable social worlds and environments. According to a biocultural view, humans are biologically constrained but have the cultural capacity to adapt to the world in a variety of ways. Thus, a biocultural approach to religion asserts that biology and culture operate in tandem and that both biological and cultural insights are required in order to understand and explain religious beliefs and practices. This course explores these assumptions and examines them against specific religious data. This course introduces students to major ideas, concepts, and questions that motivate biocultural approaches to religion. The course requires students to apply course material to a final research project that explores particular religious beliefs and/or practices in terms of the intersection of cultural choices and biological constraints. Students will present their research findings to the class. Students who take this course under the COGS designation are expected to engage substantively with the contemporary scientific study of the human mind in their research project and other course work. Offered as RLGN 349, RLGN 449 and COGS 349.
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  • RLGN 450: Jewish Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    An exploration of Jewish moral and ethical discourse. The first half of the course will be devoted to studying the structure and content of classical Jewish ethics on issues including marriage, abortion, euthanasia, and social justice. Students will read and react to primary Jewish religious texts. The second half of the course will focus on various modern forms of Judaism and the diversity of moral rhetoric in the Jewish community today. Readings will include such modern thinkers as Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Offered as JDST 350, RLGN 350, and RLGN 450.
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  • RLGN 452: Language, Cognition, and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    This course utilizes theoretical approaches found in cognitive semantics -- a branch of cognitive linguistics -- to study the conceptual structures and meanings of religious language. Cognitive semantics, guided by the notion that conceptual structures are embodied, examines the relationship between conceptual systems and the construction of meaning. We consider such ideas as conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending, Image schemas, cross-domain mappings, metonymy, mental spaces, and idealized cognitive models. We apply these ideas to selected Christian, Buddhist, and Chinese religious texts in order to understand ways in which religious language categorizes and conceptualizes the world. We examine both the universality of cognitive linguistic processes and the culturally specific metaphors, conceptual blends, image schemas, and other cognitive operations that particular texts and traditions utilize. Offered as RLGN 352, RLGN 452, COGS 352 and COGS 452.
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  • RLGN 460: Approaches to the Study of Urban Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    This course will introduce students to basic concepts and tools used in sociology of religion drawing upon works from various theorists and sociologists of religion such as Nancy Ammerman, Peter Berger, and Robert Wuthnow. The course analyze the relationship between the role and structure of religion in North America and the larger historical, cultural and social landscape. Utilizing the city of Cleveland as a resource, students will apply the tools and concepts learned to explicate how religious organizations impact, and are impacted by, urban environments.
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  • RLGN 488: Topics in Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    Critical assessment of selected topics of historical or current interest. Project must be accepted by a member of the department faculty prior to registration. Offered as RLGN 388 and RLGN 488.
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  • RLGN 601: Special Research

    1.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    Project must be accepted by a member of the department faculty prior to registration. Prereq: Graduate standing.
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  • RLGN 651: Thesis M.A.

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    Project must be accepted by a member of the department faculty prior to registration.
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  • RUSN 101: Elementary Russian I

    4.00 Credits
    Case Western Reserve University

    Introductory course emphasizing conversational skills. Students achieve control of alphabet, sound system, and basic sentence structures in spoken and written Russian. Students must use the course material offered by the Online Language Learning Center in addition to class meetings.
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