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  • RELS 184: What is Taoism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Goldin. Topical study of the Taoist religion and its relations through history to philosophical Taoism, popular religion, and science.
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  • RELS 201: Sociology of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Collins. Classic theory of religion in Durkheim and Weber, as well as contemporary theories of religious movements. Topics include ritual, magic, and mystical experience; religious ethics and salvation beliefs; the dynamics of cults, sects and mainstream churches; origins, expansion and decline of religions; religions and social class; religions and politics. The spectrum of religions in the contemporary United States will be examined, as well as historical comparisons.
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  • RELS 202: Topics in Religion and Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Examination of one or two of the areas of controversy in the religion and science debate: creation and evolution, religion and genetic research, creation and cosmology, theories of space and time, mysticism and mathematics, religion and medicine.
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  • RELS 204: Philosophy of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ross. Systematic examinations of the nature of religious experiences; proofs of the existence of God; the problem of evil; the relationships of faith and reason; and the possibility of religious knowledge.
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  • RELS 205: American Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. American folklore encompasses an astonishing array of cultural groups and artistic forms: African-American oral poetry and Franco-American fiddle tunes, Irish-American songs and Italian-American food, Native American jokes and German-American quilts, ancient old-country recipes and the latest and most bizarre Urban Legend. In this course, we will survey some of the groups that we call "American" and some of the expressive traditions that we call "folklore." We will discuss how these traditions originate, how they develop over time, and especially how they become part of--or remain separate from--American popular culture. Along the way, we will raise important questions about the meanings that folklore holds for "Americans," for smaller cultural groups, and for individuals.
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  • RELS 211: African Religion in America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This survey course focuses on African Religous culture in Nigeria and in the African Diaspora. Students will be introduced to the ritual and philosophical foundations of Yoruba religion and culture. This course emphasizes the incorporative nature and heterogeneity of problematize essentialisms and stereotypes about these religious systems by paying close attention to the ethnographic details, historical contexts, philosophical underpinnings, and political developments of each religion in their region. Traditions we will be exploring are: Ifa Divination in Nigeria and Benin; Santeria and Regla de Ocha in Cuba and the United States; Vodoun in Haiti; Shango in Trinidad; Candomble and Umbanda in Brazil; and the American Yoruba Movement in the United States. Course readings will provide a theoretical and informative basis for dealing with the concepts of syncretism, creolization, and ethnicity.
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  • RELS 213: Folk Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This introductory course examines some of the basic cultural forms and claims of folk religion as they are practiced and as they have been studied from various academic positions. This course will sample, critique, and practice approaches to the ethnography of belief and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting descriptions. After the development of some basic concepts the course will proceed through major topics in belief. The emphasis will be on belief traditions found in the West during recent and current times. Discussion will be encouraged throughout the course, and in addition to lectures and the viewing of audio-visual materials, time will be set aside to discuss the assigned readings and students' own work.
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  • RELS 215: Archaeology and Society in the Holy Land 500 BCE- 500 BCE

    4.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will survey the archaeological history of the southern Levant (Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, southern Lebanon and Syria) from the early complex societies of the Chalcolithic through the demise of the biblical states of the Iron Age. It will focus in particular on the changing organization of society through time, using excavated evidence from burials, houses, temples and places to track changes in heterogeneity, hierarchy and identity. In following the general themes of this course, students will have opportunity to familiarize themselves with the geographic features, major sites and important historical events of the southern Levant. Class material will be presented in illustrated lectures and supplemented by the study of artifacts in the University Museum's collections. Anyone interested in a better understanding of the land that has given us both the "Old Testament"/TaNaK and so much of our daily news, should find much of interest in this course.
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  • RELS 220: Studies in the Hebrew Bible

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Tigay. Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of biblical Hebrew and prior experience studying the Hebrew text of the Bible. Knowledge of Greek is not required. Language of instruction is English. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the critical methods and reference works used in the modern study of the Bible. To the extent possible, these methods will be illustrated as they apply to a single book of the Hebrew Bible that will serve as the main focus of the course.
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  • RELS 221: Jewish Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. The Jews are among the few nations and ethnic groups whose oral tradition occurs in literary and religious texts dating back more than two thousand years. This tradition changed and diversified over the years in terms of the migrations of Jews into different countries and the historical, social, and cultural changes that these countries underwent. The course attempts to capture the historical and ethnic diversity of Jewish folklore in a variety of oral literary forms. A basic book of Hasidic legends from the 18th century will serve as a key text to explore problems in Jewish folklore relating to both earlier and later periods.
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