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4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic history of Christianity. Beginning with the earliest Church, it traces the key historical and theological developments that have lead to modern Christianity.
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3.00 Credits
See Religious Studies 110 for a description of this course.
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4.00 Credits
What does the word bible mean? And what exactly is The Bible? From where did it come? In what languages was it written? Have not the original texts been lost or changed in the course of the long history of their transmission? What is the relationship of English translations to the original texts? What is a "testament?" What does it mean that there is an "oldand a "new" one? Why are there at least three (Jewish, Protestant, Catholic)Bibles? And what about those early "secret" Jewish and Christian writingswhich did not find their way into anyone's Bible? These and other such questions, the outlines of Biblical history, sketches of key figures and the basic religious ideas of its text are the focus of the department's introductory course on this ancient and important body of literature. A revised version of this course is offered for three credit hours as Religious Studies 109. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an historical and thematic overview of selected non- Judeo-Christian religious traditions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Native American religions, and African religions. The multidimensional nature of each tradition studied is emphasized through an exploration of sacred narratives, teachings, practices, experiences, and communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course, designed for the general student, traces the development of America's religious life in its many forms from Native American religion to the present. Among the issues studied are religious freedom, frontier life, urban religious development, religious pluralism, civil religion, and new religious movements. Special attention is paid to the experience of a region, usually Ohio, and the groups that left a mark on that region's religious scene.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the ways we understand and respond to death in our culture, and by inference in any other culture. What are the ways we might understand life and death itself? What are the ways we might respond to give care to the dying? How do we deny and accept death? What are the ethical and religious issues surrounding this discussion? How do we cope with loss?
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the problem of rationality, carefully considering the perspectives of both "insiders" and "outsiders." From the inside, we wiengage with firsthand encounters of wizards, sorcerers, and shamans in non-Western religious traditions, such as Songhay, Mayan, and Hindu. From the outside, we will explore various theoretical positions on rationality, examining classical and contemporary works in religious, anthropological, and philosophical studies, such as Evans-Pritchard's pioneering text on magic among the Azande, Merleau-Ponty's meditations on perception, and Paul Stoller's recent scholarship in "embodiedphenomenology." Questions to be pursued in this course include: Is there one form of rationality that is "universal"? Is rationality "relative" to oneown socio-religious context? Is there an alternative approach to both universalism and relativism that allows the student of religion to make sense of apparent "multiple realities"?
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural study of the religious phenomena of tricksters and holy fools, and the related phenomena of laughter, play, and madness, as manifested in both religious discourse (myth and philosophy) and practice. What is the significance of these phenomena? What roles do they play within religious traditions? How are tricksters and holy fools understood in their own contexts? What grounds do we have for decontextualization and comparison? Our texts will include both primary accounts of tricksters and holy fools, and interpretative models of these same phenomena.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines selected Asian religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and Japanese Religions. Each tradition studied will be investigated both historically and analytically. One goal will be to discern fundamental aspects of each tradition's theoretical, practical-experiential, and social expressions. We will also place each tradition in a comparative context, considering themes such as cosmology and cosmogony, religious transformation, concepts of non-duality, and otherworldly journeys.
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4.00 Credits
This course begins an attempt to understand how various religious traditions treat the issue of good behavior. It will look at different ways of defining the nature of ethics, and different ways of describing action appropriate to a good person. The good will be related to different theological or religious philosophical thought. We will typically focus on traditions in a limited area (e.g., China).
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