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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The encounter of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in the world of the colonial Atlantic from the mid-fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries constituted "America." This course will examine the religious dimensions of the encounter of these different peoples across time and space.
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Analytical treatment of the conceptual problems posed by the concepts of "religion," "modernity," and their confluence in recent Chinese history. Some historical background provided in the early weeks. Issues include definitions of religion, the problem of popular religion, anthropological approaches to Chinese culture, state control of religion, ritual practice, ethnicity and resistance, state violence, gender, and globalization.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Islamic societies, past and present. Readings are drawn from the fields of history, religious studies, anthropology and sociology. Readings also include a wide range of texts in translation, including novels and poetry. Films are an integral part of the course. Topics include: women's lives; women's writings; female piety; marriage and divorce; sexuality and the body; and women and Islamic fundamentalism.
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The course will focus on the changing representations of the prophets Musa (Moses) and `Isa (Jesus) within the Islamic tradition. Course materials include readings in translation from the Qur'an, hadith, Sufi poetry, the popular "Tales of the Prophets" as well as modern Islamic texts on social justice, and novels. We will examine the ways in which these prophets, while recognized by Muslims as foundational figures in Christianity and Judaism, played and continue to play a prominent role, as monotheistic prophets and as religious examplars, in many diverse aspects of Islamic thought and practice.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course studies the history of Judaism in ancient Palestine from the emergence of the Torah as an authoritative document under Persian rule in the middle of the fifth century BCE through the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, with an emphasis on the critical reading of primary sources. Much of the second half of the course is devoted to the Dead Sea Scrolls and their implications for our understanding of ancient Judaism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Social and intellectual history of American religion from colonial encounters, through the eighteenth-century revivals, past the Enlightenment and Revolution, and into the early republic. Special emphasis on power relations, cultural negotiations, and theological transformations as different religious traditions, and cultural and ethnic groups, came into contact. Focus on primary source readings.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Starting with the premise (articulated by Max Weber and many others) that the "modern" world has become disenchanted, this seminar will deal with the role of folktales, myths, children's stories, science fiction and other literary forms in attempting to re-enchant the world by force of imagination. The course will focus upon the traditional myths and religious themes which frequently are recast in contemporary fantasy literature.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this seminar we will study Buddhist approaches to death, dying, and the afterlife in a variety of Buddhist cultures. Topics may include theories of ritual and anthropological studies of mortuary rites; Buddhist cosmology and the doctrine of karmic causality; Buddhism, the family, and rites for ancestors; Buddhist funerary and mortuary practices; tales of exemplary deaths; accounts of journeys to the hells and other postmortem realms; the placation of ghosts and revenants; and changes in contemporary Buddhist funerals. Continued in "Other Information."
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on several of the classic texts of Eastern and Western Christian (primarily Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) spirituality and their authors. Topics will include the development of spiritual tradition and "schools" within specific historical and social contexts.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The impact of twentieth-century philosophical ideas on the academic study of religion: naturalism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralism, Nietzschean genealogy, and American pragmatism, among other philosophical movements.
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