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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Introduction to "mysticism" as a subject of academic investigation and to selected representations in various religious traditions. Special attention to problems of definition and historical context.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Introduction to the study of religion through critical examination of contemporary accounts of personal experimentation with a variety of religious perspectives, e.g., the "Journey to the East" of Europeans and Americans, Islam in America, and efforts by Jews and Christians to find their roots in their respective traditions. Background readings in Huston Smith's THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Introduction to different ways in which religion is represented in film. Emphasis upon religious themes, but some attention to cinematic devices and strategies. Although most films studied will deal with only one of the major historical religious traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam), the selection will always include at least two of those traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Close examination of selected representative writings on religion by modern thinkers (such as Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, and Peter Berger), who have been influenced by major issues trends, and developments in twentieth-century philosophy and the social sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. A survey and analysis of the origins and development to ancient Greek and Roman religion from the Greek Bronze Age to the advent of Christianity. Students will read both primary and secondary literature.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course deals with the ways in which current standards for social and public order have been influenced by the interaction between American Jewish and Christian values and American secular and civil values. Issues treated include: racial and ethnic attitudes, sexual equality/morality, pornography, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, mental health, economic justice, and environmental issues.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is designed to discover Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish ethics, their contribution to the values and practices of the citizenry, as they relate in creative tension, competitive values, or conflicts of interest with contemporary medical, legal, educational, and social questions bearing upon such personal, interpersonal, and social issues as sex, abortion, euthanasia, marriage, divorce. child abuse, civil rights, care of the dying, fetal research, test tube babies, political conscience, war and peace. Students will be able to work through their own understanding of a critical issue through the development of a problem-oriented paper bearing upon the perspectives and teachings of Jewish ethics in relation to an ethical issue, or on an individual Judeo-Christian ethicist in relation to a moral problem.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Introduction to the writings of one or two significant western religious thinkers, designed for those who have no background in religious thought. Possible thinkers to be studied: Augustine, Maimonides, Spinoza, Luther, Teresa of Avila, Edwards, Mendelssohn, Kierkegaard, DuBois, Bonhoeffer, King.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Silverman/Wegner. Weekly lectures (some of which will be illustrated) and a field trip to the university Museum's Egyptian Section. The multifaceted approach to the subject matter covers such topics as funerary literature and religion, cults, magic religious art and architecture, and the religion of daily life.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Staff. Throughout human history, the relationships of science and religion, as well as of science and magic, have been complex and often surprising. This coursw will cover topics ranging from the links between magic and science in the seventeenth century to contemporary anti-science movements.
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