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  • REL 4001: Existentialism: Secular and Religious

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will explore Existentialism from its beginnings in the 19th and 20th century through its changes and different directions in contemporary society. Authors such as Sartre, Camus, Dostoyevsky, Rorty, Stout, and others will be read.
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  • REL 4002: Religion and the Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course is designed to explore the nexus of Religion and Art both philosophically and aesthetically. Various theories of aesthetics will be analyzed and compared. Focuses on the artistic expression of theological themes in a given religious tradition. Students explore the varieties of art in that tradition, learning to recognize the plastic (architecture, sculpture, metal), visual (painting, glass, fabric), and musical art forms. Analyzing how these forms function in prayer, liturgy, and theology is of primary importance. In addition, the fundamental questions of how the religion deals with the tension between iconic/aniconic, eternal/finite, and divine/human are covered. Course also deals with what religious art “means” in a secular context.
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  • REL 4003: Comparative Mysticism East and West

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    In this class the students will be introduced to the mysticism of certain eastern religions and certain western religions, which will be determined by the instructor. They will be chosen from Japanese Buddhism, Hinduism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam. The students will read primary texts from these traditions. Understanding the practice of mysticism in these traditions, as well as the theoretical systems that support these practices -- in a comparative framework -- will organize the readings and the lectures for the semester.
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  • REL 4010: Topics in Religious Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The topic changes each semester. See the course schedule for the topic in a specific semester.
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  • REL 4082: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Individual research project with a specific faculty member. Permission of the professor the student wishes to work with must be given in writing, and registration is completed in the Religion Department. Prerequisite:    Departmental permission
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  • REL 4096: Capstone Seminar in Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course is designed to be the final culminating class experience for undergraduate Religion majors at Temple. The topic of the course is: “Theories of Religion and Secularism.” The course first will consider the history of the terminology, ideology, and underlying theories about religion and those concepts that religion has been defined against from ancient times to the present, but mainly concentrating on modern western discourses, which are those that have primarily informed the prevailing definitions. Second, we will consider various theories currently challenging or seeking to modify this received tradition of religious studies. In doing this, we will also consider the relations of the field of religious studies with other academic fields as well as with current public discourses, especially those in our country, but also to some extent those in the rest of the world.

    Note: Capstone course in major. Starting fall 2009 the Capstone will be offered both fall and spring semesters. Students must have completed at least 5 major courses prior to taking this course. Prerequisite:    Religion majors only. Students must have completed at least 5 major courses prior to taking this course. Minors by permission of instructor

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  • REL 4406: Secular Study of Ancient Jewish History: Between the Torah and the Talmud

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Ancient Jewish history is usually narrated as if Jews went directly from Torah to Talmud, with nothing in between. Such an account privileges the authoritative religious developments and the leadership first, of the priests who collated the core of the Torah, and second, of the early Rabbis, who collated the Mishnah, the earliest strata of the Talmud. This course explores the explosive and intriguing history between these two religious moments, and in doing so, rejects the religious chronology as the basis of historiography. The history and textual materials from these periods in Jewish History raise many of the perennial themes that have come to inform Jewish social life over the centuries. In fact, during this period in which Jews first become Jews, these issues arise for the first time: exile, political decentralization, disagreements between Jews about what constitutes the parameters of the Jewish community; peoplehood, nation, and the boundaries of group identity, intermarriage, conversion, and the movement of Jewish identity from a territory-based definition to an ethnic definition, to a definition based in piety.
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  • REL 4411: Secularism: Jewish and Muslim Women

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    In its three-hundred-year history as a Western concept, secularism is often defined as the opposite of religion. Religious women have alternately found western secularism to be a source of liberation (as it grants them greater civil rights) and a source of oppression (as it putatively shrinks the religious sphere). In creating feminisms through Jewish and Muslim experience, feminisms that are both secular and religious, these religious women have complicated the meanings of secularism. They have also challenged the notion that feminism is necessarily secular. This course looks at examples of Jewish and Muslim women’s lives and feminist thought in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. The course will compare and contrast the feminism of these two groups of religious women, in order to more fully understand the role of concepts like secularism, feminism, and religion. Prerequisite:    Students are strongly encouraged to have at least one upper level Jewish Studies, Religion or Women’s Studies course, more than one of these courses is preferred
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  • REL 4882: Independent Study

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Individual study with a specific faculty member. Permission of the professor the student wishes to work with must be given in writing, and registration is completed in the Religion Department.
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  • REL 4900: Honors Topics in Religious Studies II

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    For description, see the Honors section of the course schedule of the semester.
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