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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students to four major families of the world's religions: Primal Faith; Semitic Religions; South Asian Religions; and East Asian Religions. It looks in depth at one representative way of faith from within each major family group. It explores these issues through an examination of art and music and individual thinkers, as well as an examination of beliefs and practices. No prerequisites. Meets General Education: "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students to the history and theology of ancient Israel and of the New Testament church, through the medium of the Christian Bible. It examines how and why the church chose the books that form the Christian Bible, and illustrates how the Bible has been used, and continues to be used, to define and reform Christian faith. No prerequisites.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students to the study of religion, and distinguishes religion from the religions. While it acknowledges the importance to religion of the older social sciences (specifically: anthropology, sociology and psychology), it stresses the importance to religious studies of cultural studies. It also looks at the claims by religion to transcendent, revelatory truth, and inquires how the truth of such claims might be established. In the process, it explores whether religious studies is a discrete field of study, or a multi-disciplinary area of inquiry, or even a vague and nebulous "subject" that has no place in a respectable university. No prerequisites. Meets General Education: "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course examines various momentous occasions which have contributed to the cultural and doctrinal identity of contemporary Christianity. These would include, among other events: the Council of Jerusalem, which incorporated Gentiles as well as Jews into Christian faith; the Council of Chalcedon, which interpreted the meaning of Christ for Christians; the iconoclastic controversy in the 8th and 9th century Byzantine Empire, which foreshadowed the splitting of the Eastern and Western churches, and focused the issue of the place of the appropriateness and importance of artistic representations of God for Christians; the consequences ofMartin Luther's "Here I stand; I can do no other," and the foundinof Protestant religion; the first great awakening, and its effect upon North American Christian identity; the modern ecumenical movement, and its development within an increasingly interlinked world. Students will study Christianity's impact upon civilizations and upon culture, as well as its claims to religious truth. No prerequisites. Meets General Education: "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students to the study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their interaction. It examines their core beliefs and practices, partly through sacred texts. Students are encouraged to take seriously the cultural and aesthetic achievements and interaction of these religions. Special attention is given to the interaction of these religions in the contemporary world. Students will and must visit local places of worship if they take this course. No prerequisites. Meets General Education: "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students primarily to the study of Hinduism and Buddhism, but also examines Jainismand Sikhism. It studies their origins in the South Asian subcontinent. It explores some of their seminal texts and divergent beliefs and practices. Students are encouraged to take seriously the cultural and aesthetic achievements and interaction of these religions. It introduces students to diaspora communities ("dispersion" into other countries, including the USA) and tomodern reconstructions of faith. Students will and must visit a local Hindu or Buddhist place of worship if they take this course. No prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course is a study of the philosophical issues in religion: the nature of religion, the relation between philosophy and religion, the possibility of demonstrating the existence of God, the problem of evil, the nature of religious knowledge and language. Prerequisite: An introductory philosophy or religion course. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours What problems for religion and belief in God does human suffering pose, and what answers can religion and religions give to them? This course looks at Christian and other faithful perspectives, and explores not only intellectual and devotional responses, but also artistic, musical and other cultural explorations of the transcendental meanings of pain, loss and death. No prerequisites.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course introduces students to different portrayals of Jesus, mostly within, but occasionally outside, the Christian religion. This course: describes a number of New Testament understandings of Jesus; explores understandings of Jesus conveyed by music, art and architecture; describes understandings of Jesus in at least one religion other than Christianity; and explores contemporaryWestern understandings of Jesus, influenced by secularism. No prerequisites.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course examines the radical reshaping of Christian (especially Roman Catholic and Protestant) beliefs and practices toward Jews in the wake of the impact of Christian teaching upon the Nazis' justification for the destruction of European Jewry in the 1930s and 1940s. This reshaping has particularly affected Christian liturgy (including hymns and set orders of worship), approaches towardmission and evangelism, core teachings about themeaning and purpose of Jesus as God'smessenger to humankind, and attitudes toward the meaning of the State of Israel for both Christians and Jews. Students will also examine recent Jewish reflections upon how Jews now regard Christianity as an instrument of the divine purpose. No prerequisites.
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