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3.00 Credits
A survey of the historical development of the doctrines and practices of Buddhism. After a discussion of the Hindu origins of Buddhism, the course focuses on the development of the Theravada, Vajrayana and Mahayana traditions. A class trip to at least one Buddhist center is included. Haskett.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the many ways in which Hindus visualize and talk about the divine and its manifestations in the world through mythic stories, use of images in worship, explanations of the nature of the soul and body in relation to the divine, and the belief in human embodiments of the divine in Hindu holy men and women. Topics include: the religious meanings of masculine and feminine in the divine and human contexts; the idea of local, family, and “chosen” divinities; and differing forms of Hindu devotion for men and women. Haskett.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to Christian thought and culture in the period roughly from Augustine to the high Middle Ages. Course materials include primary texts, exemplary images, and important works of modern scholarship reflecting on the significance of the Christian materials. Students consider intellectual, practical, aesthetic, mystical, and other forms of Christianity. Kosky.
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3.00 Credits
In responding to the anxiety and disintegration of medieval Christianity, Martin Luther and the Reformers launched ideas that had a decisive impact, intended or not, on how modernity would view freedom, individual autonomy, rationality, authority, and the natural world. This course introduces students to the forms of modern culture from the Reformation to the 19th century. Readings are drawn from selected primary sources in theology, philosophy, and literature, as well as from contemporary historical considerations. Kosky.
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3.00 Credits
A study of representations of Jesus in history, fiction, and film and the ways in which they both reflect and generate diverse cultural identities from antiquity to the present. The course begins with the historical Jesus and controversies about his identity in antiquity and then focuses on parallel controversies in modern and postmodern fiction and film. Readings include early Christian literature (canonical and non-canonical), several modern novels and works of short fiction, and theoretical works on the relationship of literature to religion. In addition, we study several cinematic treatments of Jesus dating from the beginnings of filmmaking to the present. Brown.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: First-year standing. Topics vary with term and instructor. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: First-year standing. Topic for Fall 2010:
REL 181: FS: Perspectives on Death and Dying (3). First-year seminar. A comparison of ways in which various religious traditions, as well as modern secular writers, describe and conceive of death and how to live our lives in the face of our human mortality. Students study essays, poetry, film, novels, and religious writings, and write journals and formal essays. Includes several guest speakers and visits to funeral home and cemetery. (HU) Marks.
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3.00 Credits
A course offered from time to time in a selected problem or topic in religion. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Staff.
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3.00 Credits
A study of religion in American society in relation to other fundamental social institutions-family, polity, economy, and education-with special attention to religion and politics. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Scholars interested in the meaning of modernity have long used the category “disenchantment” to characterize this age. With this term, they paint a picture in which modernity is understood to entail the decline and/or transformation of religious thought and practice in the west. Recent developments might suggest, however, that a simple reading of “disenchantment” is no longer the best way to understand contemporary culture. Students consider depictions of the modern west from the perspective of disciplines including sociology, economics, science and technology studies, aesthetics, and philosophy and theology. In the course of our explorations, we consider sociological, economic, scientific, aesthetic, and technological dimensions of the modern west, the impact these have on religion, and their relevance to a possible re-enchantment. Kosky.
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