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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course is intended as an introduction to movements and figures of African American religion from slavery to the present. Lectures, readings, and discussions will focus on themes related to content and methodology in the study of African American religious history. Guiding themes include the relationship between race and gender; the tension between piety and activism; the ambivalence between mainstream respectability and racial pride; and the interaction between Christianity, lived religions, and alternative traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Examination of selected non-traditional Black American religious and secular movements, their founders and leaders with close consideration of the contrasts between these groups and more traditional movements. Examples include suchcult leaders as "Daddy Grace," "Father Divine," and "The Reverend Ike" as compared with other religious and social leaders such as Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Dohrmann. A broad introduction to the history of Jewish civilization from its Biblical beginnings until the Middle Ages, with the main focus on the formative period of classical rabbinic Judaism and on the symbiotic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Ruderman. A broad introduction to the history of Jewish civilization from the early Middle Ages to the 17th Century. An overview of Jewish society and culture in its medieval and Renaissance settings.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Wenger/Nathans. This course offers an intensive survey of the major currents in Jewish life from the early modern period to the present. We will trace the process by which the Jews gradually ceased to be a society unto themselves and confronted the sweeping transformations of the modern era, from the Enlightenment and the rise of a bourgeois middle class to projects of nation-building and revolutionary socialism. Within the evolving forms of Jewish religious experience, culture, and identity, we will explore such topics as emancipation, Jewish-gentile relations, the emergence of distinct denominations within Judaism, and the reestablishment of political sovereignty in modern Israel. Weekly readings include broad historical interpretations as well as primary sources such as memoirs, petitions, folklore, and works of literature. Curiosity about Jewish history and a willingness to explore its drama and complexity are the only prereguisits for this course. No prior knowledge of the subject is assumed.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fishman. Focusing on the festivals of the Jewish calendar and on Jewish life-cycle events, this course examines primary sources from various periods and places that illuminate changes in Jewish practice, in Jewish understandings of ritual, and in ritual's place in Jewish life.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Wenger. This course offers a comprehensive survey of American Jewish history from the colonial period to the present. It will cover the different waves of Jewish immigration to the United States and examine the construction of Jewish political, cultural, and religious life in America. Topics will include: American Judaism, the Jewish labor movement, Jewish politics and popular culture, and the responses of American Jews to the Holocaust and the State of Israel.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Tigay. An introduction to the major themes and ideas of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), with attention to the contributions of archaeology and modern Biblical scholarship, including Biblical criticism and the response to it in Judaism and Christianity. All readings are in English.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fishman. Survey of major periods of development of mystical speculation and experience within Judaism. Mystical symbolism as a basis for theosophical interpretations of Torah, Immanentist theologies, mystical ethics. Types of experiences and practices which were cultivated by Jewish mystics in order to achieve intimate communion with the Divine and to facilitate a sacred transformation of themselves and the world. Includes "Riders of the Chariot," The Zohar (Book of Splendor), Lurianic Kabbalah, Hasidism.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. An introduction to the literary and legal sources of Jewish law within an historical framework. Emphasis will be placed upon the development and dynamics of Jewish jurisprudence, and the relationship between Jewish law and social ethics.
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