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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the mystical dimension of Islam, known as Sufism. It begins by probing key terms such as Sufism, asceticism, and mysticism. It then traces the emergence of Sufism during the formative period of the Islamic political and religious systems. The bulk of the course explores contemporary manifestations of Sufism in Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, and the US/UK. Prerequisites: CLWR 311 OR HIST 337A OR 337B OR 337C Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
This course will illuminate Buddhist concepts of gender and sexuality, views of women’s spiritual capacities, the diversity of women’s images, roles, experiences, concerns and contributions in Buddhist societies, and scholarly approaches to women in Buddhism. Special attention will be given to how gender is constructed in each cultural and religious context encountered, with particular emphasis on Buddhist women in Southeast Asia. We will investigate ways to uncover the hidden voices of women through alternative. Prerequisites: CLWR 331 Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES CLWR. Examination of the texts associated with Confucius and the religious, social, and intellectual aspects of their history. May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES CLWR. Study of the world views of African traditional cultures expressed in myths, art, beliefs, and practices. May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES CLWR. Characteristic expressions of thought in primitive societies and theories concerning primitive mentality.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES IN CLWR. Survey and analysis of human thought and practice regarding death.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES CLWR. Representative thinkers, such as Tillich, Buber, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: 3 COURSES CLWR. Examines the ways in which women exercise authority in religious traditions and the ways they have been innovative and reinterpreted or reappropriated patriarchal texts or structures. May be retaken 4 times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Familiarizes the student with a range of academic approaches to the study of individual religious experience. Central questions are addressed from an integrated, multidisciplinary standpoint that includes perspectives from scholars in seven major world religions, Philosophy, Phenomenology, Comparative Religion, Sociology, and Psychology. Many types of religious experience, including the numinous, the noetic, the ecstatic, and the mystical are examined. Prerequisites: JR OR SR Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq: CLWR MAJOR & SR. Research on a selected topic in World Religions. May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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