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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated with a change of content; maximum credit nine hours. An examination of religious phenomena throughout history, appearance and development of religious traditions, or special issues or topics in religion and history. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated with a change of content; maximum credit nine hours. An examination of issues and topics in religion and philosophy. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Major in Religious Studies, junior standing, and permission of instructor. Practical vocational experience in the community directed by a Religious Studies faculty member; includes a significant research paper. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. An overview and analysis of American Christianity, including the comparison of various denominational origins and traditions. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Broad phenomenological study of the religious tradition of Christianity. Examines origins and early myths, the teacher and key element of his teachings, founders of the early movements, the spread of the tradition, sacred texts, key practices and rituals, symbols, moral codes and ethical issues, polity and leaders, challengers to its system of faith, and the globalization of Christianity. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Using historical criticism, students will study the dating authorship, historical setting, and liturgical and literary forms of the texts. Attention will be given to the canonization process and a brief look at some of the deuteron-canonical texts from recent archaeological finds that shed new light on the history and development of the Christian sacred texts. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Examines the character in the Christian Scriptures known as Jesus. Study of the historical figure through a variety of scholarly perspectives in order to understand the diversity of beliefs within the Christian religion. Employs a variety of scholarly and historical schemes for understanding and interpreting the man and his life. (Irreg.)
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Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Examines the historical and contemporary experiences of women in light of the ways in which religious beliefs and ideologies influence religious, social, economic, and political institutions. Investigates how the role of women is used symbolically in ethno-religious conflicts and the contemporary political role of religion and its impact on women's lives. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Examines the causes, characteristics, and consequences of religious violence around the world, and investigates religion's unique relationship to violence as the only institution other than the state that can legitimate violent action. Treats the particular ways in which religion frames political violence in terms of a struggle between the sacred and the profane, good and evil. Focuses on theories from sources such as sacred tex ts, social/psychological explanations, and global processes. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. An examination of the variety of answers given to the question, "what happens after death " Particular attention is given to the views of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists and the ways these views related to life in this world. Conducted in a seminar format. Students will also explore ways the afterlife is presented in popular movies. (Irreg.)
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