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This course will compare conceptions of the human being, the source and content of human rights, and the very nature of rights themselves between various religious traditions and the particular notion of rights that is embodied in international law. We shall then examine specific rights questions in light of religious teaching--rights challenges both inter-religious and intra-religious in nature--including free speech and proselytism, sexual orientation, and the persecution of religious minorities. The course concludes with an in-depth study of the theology, ethics, and practice of rights within Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism.
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An introductory exploration of women's experience of and participation in the Catholic Church and colonial Christianity in Spanish America. Through primary sources, secondary readings, lectures, and discussion, we will look at women's roles in the processes of conquest and colonization; how conversion and religious change affected gender ideologies and gender relations within indigenous communities; women's daily encounters with the church and participation in devotional culture; and the ways women's complex relationships with the colonial church was shaped by race and social status.
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This course will examine the interaction of organized religions and secular authorities in the Middle Ages and early modern period, incorporating both European states and Muslim polities. At the heart of the course are some simple questions with very complicated answers: how do secular authorities enlist, coopt, or suppress religious bodies in their efforts to shape society? Is conflict or cooperation "typical"? And, what sorts of generalizations can we draw based on a comparison of nominally Christian and Muslim states?
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Although recent interest in iconography and in the Jesus Prayer has introduced Eastern Orthodoxy to the West, ignorance of the complex history of this major tradition of Christianity is widespread. This seminar offers a detailed overview of the history, doctrine, liturgical practice, and spirituality of Eastern Orthodoxy through reading and discussion of primary and secondary texts.
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The relationship between Judaism and Christianity, their concepts of time and symbols, all are inscribed in and prescribed through their liturgy. The lion's share of these liturgies have been shaped in the long period from the origins of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism to the Middle Ages. We are going to survey various modes of Jewish-Christian interaction in this continuous liturgical discourse, in particular the cycle of liturgical time/year: Purim, Passover-Easter; Shavuot-Pentecost; The Ninth of Av; New Year; Yom Kippur- Encainia; Sukkot-Hanukkah; Hanukkah-Christmas-Sol Invictus; Sabbath-Sunday.
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The course will examine a broad spectrum of artifacts crafted and written by practitioners-magicians in the Late Antique Mediterranean. Starting with Greek Magical Papyri and amulets, we shall discover the esoteric world of secret signs and language, and the magical use of plants and animals. We shall try to reconstruct and explain a number of magical rituals described in papyri and amulets, learning our abilities and limitations in understanding those for whom the magic was real.
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This course examines the theory and practice of martyrdom in Western Religious traditions. We begin by closely studying the development of the martyrological paradigm in early Christianity and how martyrdom participated in the culture of the Greco-Roman and Jewish Mediterranean world. We will address issues as intimate as the body and as public as spectacles and the communal definition. In the end we will trace how martyrdom is deployed and functions in modern culture in various phenomena, such as the "Columbine martyrs," "martyrdom operations" (suicide bombers), political martyrdom, and modern notions of holy war.
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This course is an examination of how theologians, preachers, and communities came to terms with evil in the world. Beyond a consideration of the theological abstraction of evil, however, this class will examine how certain individuals and groups came to be identified as the embodiment of evil--either the demonic agents of Satan or Antichrist himself--and persecuted as such. This course will cover period of Christian history from roughly 300 to 1600, and will focus on three groups in particular who came to be recognized as the personification of Christian ideas of evil: medieval heretics, the Jews, and witches.
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Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement in the world, spreading especially in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, having a major impact on the religious, social, and economic practices in those regions. This course looks into the religious and cultural sources of the movement from its birth in Los Angeles in 1906, focusing on such distinctive features as healing, expressive bodily worship, "speaking in tongues," and its special appeal to people on the margins of society.
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This course explores the meanings and implications of claims that "Athens" and "Jerusalem" constitute the two poles of Western Civilization. Focusing on classical and pre-modern philosophical, literary, and religious texts, the first part of the course considers the history of the distinction between Athens and Jerusalem for understanding different conceptions of reason, revelation, justice, evil, and free will. The second part of the course turns to modern political appropriations of "Athens and Jerusalem" in arguments about the meanings of modernity, social justice, multiculturalism and higher education, and definitions of the "West."
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