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4.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between morality and religious faith in the work of Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard. Examines Kant's claim that religious thought and practice arise out of the moral life, and Kierkegaard's distinction between morality and religious faith. Recitation Section Required. 4 points
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Examines current debates on three topics (religious reasons in public discourse, human rights, and democracy). Also looks briefly at some uses of the Exodus story, focusing on Michael Walzer's study of its political uses, Edward Said's criticism of Walzer's use of it in connection with contemporary Israel, and its role in debates among African Americans in the nineteenth century. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Sophomore standing. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on three interrelated issues that lie at the heart of various religious, literary and artistic traditions. The approach will introduce students to rigorous cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis. The aim of the inquiry will be to explore the similarities and differences of contrasting considerations of the problems of nothing, God and freedom in different religious traditions as well as alternative modes of interpretation and expression. - M. Taylor Prerequisites: Students in Religion and Philosophy will be given preference. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, as it has influenced modern forms of political and social revolution, with emphasis on political philosopher Michael Walzer. Examination of the variety of contexts this story has been used in: construction of early American identity, African-American religious experience, Latin American liberation ideology, Palestinian nationalism, and religious feminism. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines Pascal's claim that to the extent that the Bible can be said to have a philosophy, it is contained in the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes. Examines this claim critically by reading these Biblical books against the history of their philosophical interpretation. Among the authors to be considered will be Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Maimondies, Calvin, Hobbes, Kant, Kierkegaard, Jung, Barth, and Rene Girard. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Graduate students, undergraduate majors and minors given priority. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine critically the concept of 'conversion' as it appears in Western thought through an examination of religious, philosophical, and political texts. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
This seminar will consider Marxian conceptions of religion--the sigh of the oppressed, heart of a heartless world, halo of the vale of tears, and beyond--and critically examine theories of knowledge, interpretation, agency, and culture that are associated with them. The inquiry will be directed at defining and prescribing the role of religion in social analysis, as well as examining the use of Marxian concepts such as illusion, alienation, and fetishism. Texts include writings by Marx, Engels, Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno & Horkheimer, Marcuse, Bataille, Althusser, Foucault, and Zizek. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
This course will investigate theories of temporality, paying particular attention to the concept of an 'event' and the causes and implications of irruptions in consciousness. The inquiry will consider the relatinships between time and truth, knowledge, subject/object, transencdence, origin, history, memory, and spirit, as well as approaches to temporal cohesiona nd rupture. Readings include texts by Husserl, Schelling, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Ricoer, Blanchot, Derrida, Stiegler, Foucault, and Badiou. - Andrea Jones 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on differing models for understanding the relationship between religion and science, with emphasis on how the models fare in light of contemporary thinking about science, philosophy, and religion. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. 4 points
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