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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Japanese religions, their origins and development in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Japan. Religions covered are: Shinto, Japanese Buddhism, folk religions, Japanese Confucianism, and the New Religions. Some attention to the expression of Japanese spirituality in the fine arts, martial arts, festivals, and rituals.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Japanese
Buddhism, covering some of the major
Buddhist figures including Kukai, Dogen,
Shinran, Hakuin, Takuan, and Myoe. In order
to understand how Japanese Buddhism
accepted Indian and Chinese Mahayana
Buddhism, the course traces some of the
prominent conceptual frameworks of
Mahayana Buddhism which were developed in
India and China. The methodological
orientation of the course is philosophical or
intellectual.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine Modern and Contemporary visions and versions of Jews, Judaism and Jewish cultural expression. It will present a combination of sociological, philosophical and historical accounts of how Judaism is performed and understood in the Modern and Contemporary period. Content will vary as the course is taught thematically looking at key trends in the period in various locations across the globe.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history, theory, and methods of Near Eastern Archaeology and its relation to Biblical Studies. Tracing the history of Biblical Archaeology from its roots in the treasure hunters of the 18th century down to the present, we will examine the changing philosophy of archaeology, and the evolving techniques of excavation, by studying several sites and archaeologists.
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3.00 Credits
This class will introduce the students to the texts found in Qumran and their implications for the fields of Biblical studies and New Testament studies. In addition to reading the texts, the students will be introduced to archeology and the technological innovations that science has brought to bear in the reconstruction of the texts and in their publication.
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3.00 Credits
Readings of various Jewish literatures focusing on America and issues of immigration and cultural assimilation.
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3.00 Credits
While Jews are often seen as “the people of the book,” they are also a “people of the body.” This course will locate sports in the history and sociology of American Jewish life. The first section will look at the history of Jews in relationship to athletics and body image. The course will then focus on the American experience to understand sports in the American context, looking not only at the major sports that Jews have been involved with (baseball, boxing, basketball and track), but also how immigration, urbanization, gambling, assimilation, and anti-Semitism have played roles in how Jews have been involved in sports. We will examine questions about ethnicity and race, gender (both masculinity and women’s participation) and class, and the business of sport. A third section will examine the arena of international affairs, especially the 1936 Olympics, and the role of sports in Israel, and the Israel-America relations as experienced through U.S. participation in the Maccabiah games. We will end by looking at sports in the Jewish imagination and the life of contemporary Jews through a study of business, literature and life experience. The course will encourage students to think in new ways about the Jewish connection to sports. It will require weekly writing assignments and several projects in the Philadelphia Jewish community.
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3.00 Credits
Close study of works by one or more Jewish and political philosophers, stressing their relevance to an understanding of contemporary politics and issues of Jewish identity, culture, and religion.
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3.00 Credits
This semester-long course will cover the
beginnings of Christianity from its Jewish roots
in the 1st century and finish in the 12th
century. We will take geographic, theological,
cultural, and institutional approaches to the
study of the history of Christianity. The course
will explore issues of the formation of the New
Testament, heresies and doctrines, asceticism
and monasticism, and the differences political
power had on various Christian groups.
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3.00 Credits
The meteoric rise of Pentecostalism throughout the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been so impressive that some scholars speak of it as a “new Reformation.” This course is a comparative historical and anthropological investigation of this important development in world Christianity, with specific substantive units of analysis drawn globally and locally; i.e., from Africa, Asia, and Latin American and from Philadelphia.
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