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3.00 Credits
Examination of the role of religion in the drive for civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s. The course will look at the role of activists, churches, clergy, sermons, and music in forging the consensus in favor of civil rights. - R. Balmer General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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Survey of evangelicalism, "America's folk religion," in all of its various forms, including the holiness movement, fundamentalism, pentecostalism, the charismatic movement, neoevangelicalism, the sanctified tradition, and various ethnic expressions. The course will examine the origins of evangelicalism, its theology, and the cultural and political involvement of American evangelicals. - R. Balmer General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 3 points
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Critics and defenders of religious belief and practice. Readings include Hume, Mendelssohn, Kant, Schleiermacher, Feuerback, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietsche. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Introduction to classical and contemporary issues, including those raised by the comparative study of religion. 3 points
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Critical study of the treatment of animals in modern moral philosophy and in Jewish and Christian thought in order to show that no theory of ethics in either domain can be complete or fully coherent unless the question of animal rights is confronted and satisfactorily resolved. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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This course will analyze the complex relationship among religion, violence and terror by examining representations of terror in religious texts, beliefs and practices as well as in recent philosophical, literary and filmic texts. The relationship of terror to trauma and horror will also be considered. - M. Taylor 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines theories of gift and exchange, the sacralization of economic relationships and the economic rationalization of sacred relationships. Part I focused on classic works on "the gift" in traditional socieities. Part II includes several perspectives on relationships of giving and taking in contemporary society. - To be announced Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor; preference to Religion majors. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the comparative study of religion on dominant approaches to the conceptualization, interpretation, and explanation of religious phenomena and on key issues relating to the methodologies appropriate to such investigations. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
A study of apocalyptic thinking and practice in the western religious tradition, with focus on American apocalyptic religious movements and their relation to contemporary cultural productions, as well as notions of history and politics. - E. Castelli 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the religions of Rome and the Hellenistic East from the late 4th century B.C.E. to the early 4th century C.E. Topics will include myth and ritual, religion and the state, and mystery religions, among others. - E. Castelli 3 points
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