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Staff. Survey of anthropological studies about healing practices, ancient medical texts (Western and Asian), and discourses about health in selected eastern and western religious traditions.
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Hufford. Examination of theories concerning the origin and function of folk beliefs, investigation ofAn e expression of folk beliefs in legend, folk art, om and ritual. and al is the focal genre for explanatory purposes, and introduction to custsocial symbolic approach to analysis and interpretation is primary for exploration and application.
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Staff. A critical survey of anthropology studies of religion.
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Hufford. This course will examine traditional systems of supernatural belief with an emphasis on the role of personal experience in their development and maintenance. The course will focus on subjects of belief generally conceived of as being "folk" in some sense (e.g., beliefs in ghosts), but will not exclude a consideration of popular and academic beliefs where appropriate (e.g., popular beliefs about UFO's and theological doctrines of the immortality of the soul). The course will be multidisciplinary in scope.
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Staff. The course will study a variety of topics in American religion.
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Hufford. Over the past decade there has been a growing awareness of the importance of such basic aspects of human diversity as culture, (religion, language), ethnicity, economic status, gender, age and disability in health care as in other areas of life. This course will deal with (1) the social and cultural foundations of health care in the modern world and (2) the ways that diversity affects and is affected by health care. Because simplistic views of diversity reinforce stereotypes, the course necessarily recognizes that each individual belongs to more than one group--each person has a cultural background, a gender, an age, may have one or more disabilities, and so forth. And even within groups, the experiences and needs of each individual are unique. For example, there is no such person as "the African-American patient" or "the female patient." Proper attention to diversity can enhance both cultural and individually appropriate care for all persons. By dealing with these political, social and cultural aspects of diversity and health care, this course will introduce students to complex and basic issues of social construction ranging from cultural dimensions of medical ethics to the importance of differing health traditions (from folk medicine to foodways to such beliefs as the idea that AIDS is a genocidal government conspiracy).
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Fishman. While accepting "the yoke of the commandments", Jewish thinkers from antiquity onward have perennially sought to make the teachings of revelation more meaningful in their own lives. Additional impetus for this quest has come from overtly polemical challenges to the law, such as those leveled by Paul, medieval Aristotelians, Spinoza and Kant. This course explores both the critiques of Jewish Law, and Jewish reflections on the Law's meaning and purpose, by examining a range of primary sources within their intellectual and historical contexts. Texts (in English translation) include selections from Midrash, Talmud, medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical exegesis, kabbalah, Hasidic homilies, Jewish responses to the Enlightenment, and contemporary attempts to re-value and invent Jewish rituals.
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Distribution 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. May be repeated for credit. Language of instruction is English. Qualified undergraduates are welcome but need permission from the instructor. The focus will be on the study of the Hebrew text of a book of the Bible. The book varies from year to year.
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Fishman. Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Hebrew. Primary source readings from a broad array of medieval Jewish genres. Topic will vary from one semester to another, for example: custom, gender, dissent.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Reed. An examination of the varieties of Jewish Thought current from ca. 300 B.C.E. to ca. 200 C.E., and of the ways in which the early Christian church adapted and/or reacted to this Jewish heritage.
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