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3.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to many of the historical forms and manifestations of Judaism. The goal of this course is to examine Judaism conceptually, considering topics such as literature, politics, art, history and ritual, and to provide the student with a conceptual basis that will facilitate the comparison of Judaism with other world religions.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the development of the Daoist tradition in the context of Chinese popular religions. We will study early Daoist communities, texts, and practices to advance our understanding of such religious themes as: the body and the cosmos; magical medicine; immortality practice; ritual; scripture and revelation; apocalypticism; and the relationship between "classical" and "popular" religious traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 10003 or any religion course. This course is centrally concerned with issues relating to the rationality and justification of religious convictions. There is also an interest in the coherence of religious concepts. Various philosophical models for understanding and evaluating religious convictions and practices are examined and applied.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3 semester hours of Religion or Philosophy. An exploration of ideas of God as they have developed in Western theology and philosophy since the 17th century. The relation between these ideas and current models for thinking about God will be stressed.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ANTH 20623, RELI 10023 or RELI 10043 or consent of the instructor. Anthropological findings in the comparative study of religion and culture across a broad range of societies. Studies of sacred experience, myth, ritual, magic, witchcraft, religious language, gender and religion, healing, and relationships between social and religious change.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 20213, or SOCI 20223 or permission of instructor. An introduction to understanding the role of religion in society and to sociological methods for the study of religion. The course will introduce theories and research pertaining to types of religious experience, conversion and commitment, denominationalism, secularization and fundamentalism. Class, gender, race and ethnicity will also be addressed as they influence religion in society. (Offered as RELI or SOCI credit.)
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3.00 Credits
An investigation and analysis of discourses within Liberation and Postcolonial Theologies. An examination of the historical and sociological development of these new theological understandings of God, and their relation to the communities where they came from.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the ways Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have helped to shape Western attitudes toward women. The lives of representative women and their influence will be examined in some detail; readings from religious thinkers on the nature of woman will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 3 hours of Religion and any 6 hours from among Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Physics, and Psychology. An exploration of the ways of knowing utilized in religion (particularly the Judeo-Christian heritage) and in science, and how these ways of knowing relate.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RELI 10003, 10013 or permission of instructor. An examination of concepts of mysticism and mystical experience. Examples will be drawn from Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist sources.
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