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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course is an introduction to the syntax and particles of classical Chinese with an emphasis on translating early religious prose. The course will assist the student in learning classical Chinese by sampling religious texts that are often cited throughout Chinese history. These texts will derive from the three institutional faiths of Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucian lineage ritual. The introduction of classical Chinese will help the student gain direct access to a vast realm of texts, religious and otherwise. Prerequisites: Chinese 110 and Religion 157 or 160, or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course is a historical survey of Chinese attitudes toward dying, death, and the nonempirical realm. From Buddhist hells to Daoist immortals, Chinese religions are preoccupied with rationalizing and resisting human extinction. The course will examine death through the lenses of literature, art, medicine, and philosophy, beginning with the earliest forms of the Shang Dynasty ancestral cult to the medieval period. Prerequisites: Religion 157 or 160 and either Religion 201, Humanities 230, or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course provides a structured familiarization with the doctrinal foundations of Mahayana Buddhism. After examining the transmission process of texts from India to China, the course will focus upon close reading of sutras in translation from four major schools of Chinese Buddhism. These sutras will include the Flower ornament sutra from Huayan Buddhism, the Pure land sutra from Jingtu Buddhism, and the Diamond and Lankavatara sutras from Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Students will then read early interpretations of these sutras in medieval literature, intellectual discourse, and art. Prerequisites: Religion 157 or 160, and 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. This course is a survey of the history of Daoism, Buddhism, the ancestral cult, and popular religions in China from its beginnings through the Tang Dynasty. Using a combination of recent secondary scholarship and representative primary sources, the course will trace the development of religion against the background of Chinese cultural growth. It will pay special attention to how religious doctrine and art influenced, and was influenced by, secular history, including economics, politics, and foreign relations. Prerequisites: Religion 157 or 160, and 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. A chronological survey of Islamic thought during the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on conceptions of God and of the ideal human relationship with God in selected Muslim religious writings, the course will analyze the interrelation between sociohistorical and theological developments in the Islamic tradition during this period. The geographical focus of the course will be primarily on the Middle East and South Asia. Among the authors whose theologies we will examine in depth are: Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Iqbal, Abu'l-A'a Mawdudi, Jamal ad-Din Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh, Sayyid Qutb, 'Ali Shari'ati, and Ruhallah Khomeini. Prerequisite: Religion 155 or Anthropology 361. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. Sufism broadly refers to a complex of devotional, literary, ethical, theological, and mystical traditions within Islam. More specifically, it refers to the activities associated with institutionalized master-disciple relationships, which define the paths ( turuq) through which Muslims have sought experiential knowledge of God. In both the broad and narrow sense of Sufism, love has been a prominent means of Sufi self-representation. In this course we will explore the ideas and practices semantically associated with love in the Sufi tradition and analyze the ways in which these ideas and practices have both shaped and been shaped by individual lives, religious institutions, and sociocultural contexts. Prerequisite: Religion 155. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. By investigating ancient literatures of askesis, this course will explore early Christian conceptions of the body and its regulation. Readings will include material drawn from among the apocryphal acts, sermons, monastic regulations, Biblical commentaries, homilies, and encomia. Prerequisite: Religion 153. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Full course for one semester. In many religions the body is a contested site where such phenomena as natural appetites, demonic influence, and divine condescension converge. While such a concern for the body is widespread, the dogma of bodily resurrection distinguishes Christian notions of the body from most other religions. Whether as a corrective to or a consequence of this tradition, recent trends in the study of Christianity have attempted to "recover the body" from its discursive purgatory. Course material will address discursive and corporeal issues in the history of Christianity, such as the relation between gender and the divine, medieval and Protestant notions of the Eucharist, the confessional interrogation of the flesh, Luther's body, demonic possessions at Loudun, and miraculous healings at Lourdes. Prerequisite: Religion 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will investigate Hellenic and Christian philosophical theology in late antiquity and Byzantium. Primary focus will be upon the theological works of the philosopher Proclus, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, St. Maximus the Confessor, and St. Gregory Palamas. Secondary studies will include works by Armstrong, Losski, Gersh, Siorvanes, Meyendorff, and Louth. Primary texts will be examined in the original Greek and in translation. Prerequisite: Greek 110. Greek 210 is recommended. Lecture-conference. Cross-listed as Greek 249. Not offered 2009-10. Greek 249 Description
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course is a research seminar devoted to the investigation of a particular topic in Jewish history. Prerequisite: Religion 201. Conference.
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