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3.00 Credits
H. Sindima This is a course on the role and function of religion toward peace and reconciliation. Students examine the scriptural, theological, and ethical teachings of various religions on justice, conflict resolution, peace, and reconciliation. Students also examine the theological writings on justice, war, and peace by Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Schleiermacher. Using concrete case studies of conflict and reconciliation, students explore the teachings of African religion, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam on nonviolence, peace making, relationship of peace and justice, as well as evaluate the negative and positive contributions of these religions toward conflict. Students examine religious and interreligious conflicts (Northern Ireland, India/Pakistan), religious language and symbols (Rwanda), current attempts at peace reconciliations (Bosnia, Liberia), and the role of religions and the causes of situations of conflict (the Middle East). Of particular interest is an examination of situations in which the political process was shaped and defined to a greater degree by religious leaders and their communities (South Africa).
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3.00 Credits
H. Sindima In the 17th century, religion lost its claim to the cosmos; the religious knowledge of the order of nature ceased to possess any legitimacy in the new paradigm of science that came to dominate the West. Until the 1960s, Christian thinkers considered it the great glory of Christianity that it alone among the world's religions had permitted purely secular science to develop in a civilization in which it was dominant. After several centuries of an ever-increasing eclipse of the religious significance of nature in the West and neglect of the order of nature, humans are now experiencing environmental crisis: global warming; the destruction of the ozone layer; climatic and weather pattern changes; soil erosion; death of animals, birds, and marine life; and the disappearance of some plant species. Today the very fabric of life is threatened and the future of our world hangs in the balance as nature is threatened by destruction caused by an environmental crisis that has gone unchecked for several centuries. What can be learned from religions of the world that will save humanity and nature What is the relationship between religion, nature, science, and technology Discussions include views from various religious traditions concerning nature, the concept of the human, notions of progress and destiny, faith and science, ecological theology, ecofeminism, justice and sustainability, and spirituality.
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3.00 Credits
C. Martin This course in comparative eschatology (the broad study or science of "last things") and apocalyptic thought (the near-end on/or transformation of the world) examines global religious traditions about the "end of the world" or the "End of Days" through the centuries. Particular attention is given to eschatological and apocalyptic theorizing in Hindu, Buddhist, African, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Islamic thought. Whether mythologies of the end of days signify a cataclysmic world end, the end of the universe, the abolition of time, a cycle of reincarnation, judgment, resurrection, or a New World or Golden Age, a New Age or a New Creation, they are recognized as profoundly embedded within theories of the evolution of world history and human progress in many of the world's relig
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3.00 Credits
C. Vecsey This course studies selected significant religious questions, themes, and texts from American religious history. Students study and respond to representative writers from the Protestant tradition (including that of black Christianity in America), the Roman Catholic, and the Jewish traditions as well as the traditions of other American religious communities.
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3.00 Credits
H. Sindima This historical, theological, and contextual study of African American religion examines the African American religious experience, including the African background, slavery in America, the struggle for freedom and identity, the development of the Black Church, Black Muslims, the Civil Rights movement, the emergence of black and womanist theologies, and other expressions of African American religion and spirituality. Readings include such contemporary authors as W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Thurman, James Cone, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Albert Raboteau, Jacquelyn Grant, Delores Williams, and Cornel West.
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3.00 Credits
C. Martin This course is a study of the nexus between politics, social activist theorizing and commitment, and religious faith among black women within the African diaspora (inclusive of women within the Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, and the United States). Particular attention is given to the discrete forms of "politicized religion" and their multiple and recurrent formations within regional, national, and global movements (i.e., the Civil Rights movement in America). The course centrally assesses the distinctive ways in which Africana women encode and transform their understandings of prevailing, normative, and/or indigenous religious archetypes, official religion, and other embodiments of the sacred as it relates to their quest for self-definition, representation, and legal, social, and political authority and empowerment.
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3.00 Credits
G. Frank This course examines the many ways humans have attempted to anticipate, accept, deny, defeat, or transcend death. Does one have a soul and does it survive Is immortality possible What techniques have people used in efforts to achieve it Is there a "good" way to die The focus is on scriptures and rituals of Buddhists, Hindus, ancient Greeks, Jews, and Christians, and their legacies for contemporary America. Topics include body and soul, heaven and hell, spiritism, ghosts, reincarnation, resurrection, near-death experiences, relics, funerals, cremation, and cemeteries.
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3.00 Credits
H. Sindima The course explores how Christianity and Islam have caused or influenced conflict and division or greater political and social freedoms in Africa. Select countries are examined as case studies: Nigeria and Sudan for conflict and division; South Africa and Malawi for democratization of society. The course covers the spread of Christianity and Islam, colonial (British, French, and German) policy and Christian missionaries' attitude toward Islam, separation of religion and state (the debate over Islamic Law, Shar'ia), and religion and politics. Movements within Islam (Islamic brotherhoods, Madhist movement) and Christianity (liberation, black, womanist/feminist theologies) are also studied.
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3.00 Credits
B. Hansen, D. Johnson Cognitive psychology is a scientific approach to understanding the functioning of the human mind and its relationship to behavior. This course explores recent empirical work in both the theoretical and practical aspects of a variety of issues related to cognition. Topics covered include pattern recognition, attention, mental representation, memory, problem solving, and development of expertise, reasoning, and intelligence. Prerequisite: PSYC 150 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
R. Braaten One of the most fundamental influences on thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes is learning. This course addresses major topics in learning and cognition including learning through association, reinforcement and punishment, the role of evolution in learning, and learning in human and non-human animals. Students explore the cognitive processes of attention, memory, and concept formation, and their role in learning, and various applications of learning, including education, advertising, and addictions. Prerequisite: PSYC 150 or permission of instructor.
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