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3.00 Credits
Staff. Critical examination of selected problem areas in the interpretation of religious texts, traditions, institutions, and practices in South and Southeast Asia.
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3.00 Credits
LaFleur. This is the graduate level of Rels 193. See Rels 193 for description of the course.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Careful examination of one topic (e.g., ritual) or thinker (e.g., Durkheim).
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3.00 Credits
Theophano. Behind a simple proverb like "You are what you eat" lies a great deal of food for thought. Human beings have always elaborated on the biological necessity of eating, and this course will explore the myriad ways in which people work, think and communicate with food. The course will survey the major approaches from folklore, anthropology and related fields toward the role of food, cookery, feasting and fasting in culture. Among the topies to be addressed are gender roles and differences in foodways, the significance of food in historical transformations, the transmission of foodways in writing and publishing, the relationship of foodways to ethnicity and region, the intimate relationship between food and religion, and foodways in the global market place. Short exercises and a term project will provide students with opportunities to research and write about foodways from different angles.
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3.00 Credits
Ben-Amos. Theories of myth are the center of modern and post-modern, structural and post-structural thought. Myth has served as a vehicle and a metaphor for the formulation of a broad range of modern theories. In this course we will examine the theoretical foundations of these approaches to myth focusing on early thinkers such as Vico, and concluding with modern twentieth century scholars in several disciplines that make myth the central idea of their studies.
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3.00 Credits
Struck. This course will trace a history of signs, using Greek divination as the primary focus. We will explore ancient and contemporary sign theories and their usefulness in illuninating ancient practices of divination--or the reading of signs thought to be embedded in the world. Participants in the seminar will be expected to contribute an expertise in one (or more) of three general areas: Greek literature, Greek and Roman religions, and contemporary theory in the humanities. The course is open to graduate students without Greek as well as classicists--though please register appropriately. The particular areas we cover will to some extent be determined by the interests of the participants, but will surely include: divination by dreams, entrails, and oracles as attested by literary and (to a lesser extent) archaeological evidence; Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic and Neoplatonic theories of signs; and contemporary semiotics as articulated mainly by Saussure, Barthes, and Eco. Ancient authors will include: Homer, Xenophon, Sophocles, Cicero, Artemidorus, and Iamblichus.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This seminar is an introduction to six of the most debated areas involving religion in public life: diversity in American religions; church-state relations and the Constitution; issues in specific eastern and western religions; religious dimensions of contemporary ethical and social debates (abortion, euthanasia, minority and gender roles); religious symbolism in the public sphere; and the prevailing understandings of religion in the media and modern society. Teachers, school administrators, journalists, public policy specialists, social workers, lawyers, and health care professionals all encounter situations in which the religious sensitivities of "clients" (students, parents, readers, etc.) affect the ways in which they discharge their duties. This seminar serves as an introduction to the Religion in Public Life concentration within the Master of Liberal Arts Program, which is designed to provide professionals with an understanding of the many historical, social and legal issues that complicate discussions of religion in public situations.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Many Americans hold that religion is properly a matter engaged in by individuals, families and congregations within the confines of their own homes and places of worship. For others, it is both a constitutionally protected right and a religious duty to give public voice to their religious faith and identity. This seminar focuses on the tension in contemporary America between private and public expressions of religious belief and sentiment. Our readings will cover the development of private spirituality since the 1950s, the continuing conviction of some that religion and sports are closely linked, one example of the burgeoning effort to bring religion into the workplace, a sociological study of the public portrayals and private hopes of those in the growing Evangelical movement, and an eminent historian's view of "the mixing of sacred and secular in American history."
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3.00 Credits
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 palaces to track changes in social 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.
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3.00 Credits
Tigay. Prerequisite(s): Facility in Biblical Hebrew. In-depth study of a special topic or problem in Biblical studies.
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