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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of ritual performance in a number of religious traditions. Attention will be given to the orchestration of symbols and to the location of rituals within religio-cultural contexts. Each student will be expected to analyze a ritual in which he or she has participated and another which will be presented via documentary film in the course. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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A study of selected Native American traditions from historical and comparative perspectives. Particular attention will be given to the Iroquois and will include discussion of Iroquois-Christian interaction. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
Religion and Ecology explores the ways that religious traditions understand and interact with their environments. The course asks how religious communities think about “nature” and “life” and hthey define a human relationship to, and responsibility for, the earth. Students will develop skills in identifying the religious underpinnings of contemporary attitudes and practices regarding the environment. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to significant approaches to religious ethics and the study of particular personal and social problems from religious perspectives. Examples of topics included might be marriage, abortion, homosexuality, nuclear warfare and world hunger. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to help students clarify their unexpressed values as a step toward developing a value system. It seeks to develop habits of re-examining the student’s purposes, aspirations, attitudes and feelings to find an intelligent relationship between his or her life and the world. The course begins with a consideration of the viability of Christian ethics as applied to the personal and social aspects of life. It evaluates the value presuppositions of both students and leaders and applies these values to case studies.
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3.00 Credits
The course is a study in comparative religious ethics. The course will guide students through the ethical perspectives that Eastern, Western, and indigenous religious traditions have developed on four social issues facing our world: the construction of sexuality and gender, social justice, violence and the environment. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
One way in which humans carry out their quest for meaning in life is by attending to the lives of others. Such a quest involves the religious dimensions (broadly understood) of human existence. This course investigates such a quest for meaning in the life stories of significant individuals in history. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore various components of Christian life as it is contemporaneously experienced and symbolized. To achieve this, the topics of religious experience, faith, belief and conversion will be treated in the context of various modes of symbolization: scripture, sacrament and liturgy, doctrine and literature. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide the student with an overview of Christian spirituality. It will consider the biblical foundations of Christian spirituality and its historical development through the centuries. A major portion of the course will look at the contemporary practice of Christian spirituality, including prayer, discernment, spiritual direction and the usefulness of insights from psychology regarding dreams, personality and gender. Students will be introduced in-class to various methods of Christian meditation.
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3.00 Credits
This core course is a writing-intensive critical analysis of contemporary European and American films from the perspective of concerns and questions associated with a critical study of religion: freedom, violence, gender and sexuality, grace, eros, reconciliation, sacrifice, the other, redemption. Visual texts or films for the course include, but are not limited to, Amadeus, Kundun, Little Buddha, Smoke Signals, Unforgiven, Aliens, Babette’s Feast and Breaking the Waves. Course readings are (1) primary religious texts from indigenous traditions, Asian religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and (2) film criticism incorporating feminist, literary, biblical, and theological methodologies. Class style: short lectures, guided discussion (led by students and instructor), screening of films. There are weekly papers or electronic postings, a course project and short presentation on that project. Fulfills REL 300 core requirement. Prerequisite: REL 200.
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