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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 15.00 Credits
Research for the doctoral dissertation.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of RELI 125. We will finish the grammar in the second half of this semester and then read selections from the Hebrew Bible.
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3.00 Credits
Hip Hop culture has changed how life is discussed and conducted. However, one of the under-explored dimensions of Hip Hop culture involves its religious sensibilities. Using lectures, discussions, films, and video presentations, this course explores Hip Hop culture's religious dimensions through its musical language-rap music.
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3.00 Credits
What shaped medieval Christian notions of the body? How did common experiences of pain, sexuality, childbirth, and death refract the grasp of larger concepts - God, time, and the cosmos? This seminar will explore the issues connecting body to cosmos through close reading of medieval literary, mystical, and autobiographical texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and culture of Judaism during the Second Temple period which produced such great religious leaders as Jesus and Hillel. Topics include: Canonization, Colonization, Diaspora, Economic and Political Instability, Eschatology, Hellenization, Imperialism, Messianism, Pharisees, Priesthood, Sadducees, Scribes, Scriptures, Sectarianism, Synagogue and Temple worship.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of post-biblical Judaism as reflected in the literature of the classical rabbinic tradition, mysticism, medieval biblical commentary, legal codes and philosophy, and modern movements such as Hasidism, denominational Judaism, Zionism, and feminist Judaism. Jewish material culture such as synagogue architecture, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual artifacts will be included.
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3.00 Credits
What-if anything-is right, good, and just about our intentions and actions? The course surveys urgent questions raised in Jewish philosophy concerning law, morality, and politics. Topics include freedom and frailty, gender and government, emotions and reasons, suffering and hope. Readings in translation ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary writings.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce selected lives from St. Anthony to St. Francis of Assissi which will be read in Latin; grammar review, as necessary. Focus will be on continuity and change in the Hagiographic tradition and representation of saint in relation to community. Intermediate Level Latin.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to introduce the student to classic and contemporary texts in the social scientific study of religion. Topics include: mysticism, the social construction of gender, the guru-disciple relationship, secularization, healing traditions East and West, cross-cultural debates.
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3.00 Credits
Theology and church-state issues from 16th-century Reformation to 17th century; medieval background; Luther and Calvin, the Catholic Reformation; religious wars; Protestant orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism; and calls for toleration.
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