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3.00 Credits
Comprehensive historical overview of Judaism as a religion and a culture. The main ideas and institutions of Judaism, the centrality of the Hebrew Bible and the meaning of interpretation, thinkers, and movements in Jewish civilization, from rabbinic Judaism, medieval philosophy, mysticism, to modern thought, Zionism, and the foundation of the State of Israel. Recent Jewish self-representation in art.
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An historical overview of the different religious traditions in Islam, their basis in the Qur’an and life of the Prophet, their proliferation in the medieval period, and their response to the challenge of modernity. Topics include sunni and shi’i Islam, evolution of law and theology, sufism and political philosophy. Islam in Africa, India, Spain, and southeast Asia as well as the Middle East.
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Independent learning and inquiry in an environment in which students can express knowledge and defend opinions through intensive class discussion, oral presentations, and written expression. May be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication of topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits in any 115F course per semester of enrollment.
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Psychological theories of human development with a focus on religious and spiritual aspects of personality. Religion and human well being. Sigmund Freud, William James, and Carl Jung.
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Sacred texts, key beliefs, and practices of each tradition in historical and cultural context.
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Major religious traditions of China. Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, state-sponsored religious systems, and popular religion. Thought and practice from ancient times to the present.
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"Great Books" of the Western intellectual tradition, tracing Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian literature and culture from their origins to synthesis in the medieval period.
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Philosophical, historical, and textual perspectives. Key mystical traditions, philosophies, texts, and figures from Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The popular emergence of spirituality as a contemporary mode of religiosity in advanced capitalist societies.
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How scientific discoveries and religious teachings are related. Descriptions of the physical universe from Aristotle through Albert Einstein are compared to contemporaneous definitions of the moral life by religious thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant, and Martin Buber.
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Critical analysis and discussion of modern Jewish constructions of religion: politically, symbolically, ethically, normatively, and aesthetic-mystically. Selected readings from Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Kaplan, and social philosophers such as Simmel and Habermas on the function, nature, and meaning of religion in secular culture.
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