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  • REL 205: Self-Help and the Pursuit of Happiness

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    REL 205 - Self-Help and the Pursuit of Happiness FDR: HU Credits: 4 This course addresses the relation of the concept of ‘self-help’ and ‘the pursuit of happiness’ to religion both past and present, and it considers philosophical, psychological, and medical-scientific perspectives on these pursuits. Students examine questions including the following: To what extent do the concepts and practices of self-help share in the pursuit of a supposed dream of religion and philosophy: to realize perfection, happiness, or the good life? Are philosophies and religions reducible to or interpretable as forms of self-help? How have modern scientific discoveries, in particular advances in cognitive science and medical science, shaped the modern pursuit of happiness? What are we to make of scientific claims to teach us how to be happy? PSYC 300:The Pursuit of Happiness; REL 205:Self Help and the Pursuit of Happiness; and SOC289: Sociology of the Self: Self-Help meet together each Friday in a seminar where students become teachers and lead a class in which we all discuss together the work we have done separately during the week. In this way, students become part of a broad learning community that cuts across the many disciplines and divisions that make up the university. Kosky.
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  • REL 207: Nature and Place

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    This course explores a variety of ideas about and experiences of nature and place Through a consideration of work drawn from diverse disciplines including philosophy, religious studies, literature, art, and anthropology. Questions to be Considered may include: what is the nature of place in our societies, and is there a place for nature in our cultures? How have human beings made places for themselves to dwell in or out of nature? What might make a place a sacred place? Are there any sacred places? ( Kosky
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  • REL 210: Approaches to the Study of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: A course in religion or permission of the department. A study of approaches to understanding religious life and thought as found in selected writings in anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology, and comparative religion. Haskett.
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  • REL 212: Philosophy and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    An exploration of selected issues, such as mystical and numinous experiences and doctrines, theistic arguments, faith and reason, religion and morality, and science and religion. Sessions.
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  • REL 213: Perspectives on Death and Dying

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    A comparison of ways in which various religious traditions, as well as modern secular writers, describe and conceive of death and the meaning of life in the face of our human mortality. Students study scripture, poetry, memoirs, novels, essays, and film, and write a journal and essays. Includes several guest speakers and visits to a funeral home and cemetery. Marks. Note: Should not be repeated by those students who have taken this class as REL 181: First-year seminar.
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  • REL 215: Female and Male in Western Religious Traditions

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    An investigation of views about the body, human sexuality, and gender in Western religious traditions, especially Judaism and Christianity, and of the influences of these views both on the religious traditions themselves and on the societies in which they develop. The course focuses on religion and society in antiquity and the Middle Ages, but also considers the continuing influence of religious constructions of the body and sexuality on succeeding generations to the present. Brown.
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  • REL 216: Sainthood in Four Traditions

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    A survey of sainthood in a variety of religious contexts: Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist. The course asks: “What makes someone holy? How do saints behave? How and why are they worshipped?” Readings include sacred biographies (hagiographies), studies of particular traditions of saint worship, and interpretations of sainthood in both theological and cross-cultural perspectives. Lubin.
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  • REL 221: Sociology of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Theories of the origin and functions of religion; institutionalization of religious belief, behavior, and social organization; conditions in which religion maintains social stability and/or generates social change. Eastwood.
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  • REL 222: Law and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Open to undergraduates and law students. Drawing on examples from diverse periods and legal cultures, this seminar addresses “law” and “religion” as two realms of life that have much shared history and continue to intersect in the modern world. Several important topics in comparative law and jurisprudence are covered, including authority and legitimacy, the relation between custom and statute, legal pluralism, church-state relations, and competing models of constitutional secularism. A selective survey of legal systems and practices rooted in particular religious traditions is followed by an examination of how secular legal systems conceptualize religion and balance the protection of religious freedom with their standards of equity and neutrality. Lubin.
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  • REL 224: American Indian Religions, Landscapes, and Identities

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Drawing on a combination of scholarly essays, native accounts, videos, guest lectures, and student presentations, this seminar examines the religious assumptions and practices that bind American Indian communities to their traditional homelands. The seminar elucidates and illustrates those principles concerning human environmental interactions common to most Indian tribes; focuses on the traditional beliefs and practices of a particular Indian community that reflected and reinforced the community understanding of the relationship to be maintained with the land and its creatures; and examines the moral and legal disputes that have arisen out of the very different presuppositions which Indians and non- Indians hold regarding the environment. Markowitz.
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