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3.00 Credits
Issues of sexuality in the Hebrew Bible in the context of the Ancient Near East. Homosexuality, virginity, and incest.
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Ancient concepts of the feminine divine in literature and iconographic evidence. Specific goddesses, their spheres of influence, and their place in the various pantheons. Cultic practices and religious syncretism across cultures, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ancient Israel. Offered on a graded basis only.
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An interdisciplinary study of the systematic destruction of the European Jewish communities during World War II. Historical, social, political, cultural developments that led to it. Psychological and sociological dimensions of its aftermath. Philosophical and theological problems it raises for both Jews and Christians.
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3.00 Credits
Themes and issues in the traditions and texts of selected Western religions from a feminist perspective. Biblical and theological images of women, sources of religious authority, psychological and ethical implications of feminist approaches to religion.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of contemporary European and American schools of psychoanalysis. Focus on both the clinical and explanatory theories as they relate to the examination of religious experience. Recommended: 120 or 121.
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3.00 Credits
Religious, legal, and socio-economic aspects of marriage. Survey of ancient Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian sources, and relevant sections of the Hebrew Bible. Marriage as an institution at the beginning of recorded history.
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3.00 Credits
The construction of identity in religious autobiography: motivations (personal salvation, witness, proselytism); relationships among self, God, and religious tradition; role of memory; cultural, gender, and religious differences. Readings may include Augustine, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Angelou, Wiesel.
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3.00 Credits
Human evil as expressed in the Shoah, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic cleansing. Theological, philosophical, biological, and literary texts. Evil transformed by scientific inquiry since 1600.
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3.00 Credits
Interactions between science and religion from antiquity to Charles Darwin. Subsequent modifications of Darwinism and religious responsibilities to evolutionary theories.
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3.00 Credits
The religious thought of African American slaves as expressed through folklore, literature, and art. Creative ideas about the cosmos, the supernatural, transcendent spiritual reality, natural social reality, and the human condition. Offered on a graded basis only.
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