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3.00 Credits
The question of what is intrinsically Islamic with respect to ideas about women and gender is important for understanding the position of women in Islam, and for distinguishing the religious element from socio-economic and political factors. The course sets in perspective the diversity of cultural manifestations which contribute to the complexity of Islam, through a selective exploration of literary works by both women and men. The writings contain political, social, and religious themes and reflect debates regarding the nature of society and the status of women, written primarily in the last 50 years. Readings include fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. (Anwar, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
The emphasis of this course will be on "masculinities" as opposed to "masculinity." The selected texts depict medieval male heroes and their behaviors in a number of circumstances or environments going from the battlefield to the cell, from the woods to the bedroom. We will observe men as they construct their identities in institutions, epic, empire, as warriors, friends, lovers, husbands, outlaws.We will explore the synchronic and diachronic diversity with which medieval cultures constructed such images of maleness and we will examine the ideologies behind these images. The texts include epics, such as Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Old French and Middle English romances such as Ami and Amile, Yvain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and A Little Gest of Robin Hood among other
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on key Christian theologians/figures who have shaped Christian thought. The work of these thinkers has been fundamental to the development of and changes in Western thought and society. The emphasis of the course is on close readings of selections from the primary texts (in translation) and biographical/historical readings which contextualize each author. (Salter, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the extent to which globalization has affected the identities of Muslim women and their gender constructs in the Muslim world. While globalization has provided Muslim women with the newly found freedom to explore choices outside their constructed traditional roles, it has to a different degree trapped women into the cultures of materialism, consumerism, and liberation. Among the questions addressed in this course are whether globalization is a blessing or a blight What has been the impact of globalization in the Muslim world Does it affect men and women differently Does globalization reinforce the inequality of men and women in the Muslim societies To what extent does globalization affect the gendered divisions of private and public, resources, sexual division of labor, male-female power and authority and the production of identity in the context of globalization How do feminists, womanists, and islamists restructure gender awareness, power relations and opportunities in the public space What kind of religious ir indigenous resistance challenges the impact of globalizations on gender issues in the Muslim world (Anwar, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
Religious Studies has been shaped and reshaped by major figures in psychology and the social sciences who such questions as: Where does religion come from Why are people religious What are its consequences Is it social glue The source of violence A product of repression An illusion This course will examine the work of a single thinker, seeking to situate her or his work in the history of Religious Studies. Exemplary figures might include: Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Peter Berger, Robert Bellah. (Henking, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
Religious experience has been described as a purely individual phenomenon. Yet, religion has also been a powerful institutional and cultural force. The loss of faith has been depicted in similarly contradictory ways-both as the product of individual decision and as a large scale historical process called secularization. This course explores this tension by reading novels and biographies as well as theoretical work which examines the relation of religion to historical and psychological processes. (Henking, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course attempts to trace and describe the developments in Jewish mysticism culminating in the Hasidic movements of the 18th and 19th centuries and neo Hasidic trends in the 20th. These movements are viewed as religious and spiritual, as well as social and economic manifestations. The course operates from the premise that there is a continuing dialectic between an exoteric and subterranean tradition. The true history of a religion lies beneath the surface and often contradicts, energizes, and finally transforms the assumptions of the normative tradition. The course argues the central importance of the Kabbalistic mystical tradition, not as a footnote of Jewish history, but as a motivating force. (Dobkowski, offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
Feminisms have transformed religion. Feminisms emerge from religion. Feminisms criticizes- or rejects - religion. Which is it Why In what ways are feminisms situated-are they western White Womanist Global This course will examine one significant feminist within religious studies, seeking to situate her work within the history and debates characterizing both feminism and religion. By focusing on a single figure, students will develop in depth understanding of the development and scope of an individual's contribution across a life's work. Exemplary figures might include: Mary Daly, Matilda Joselyn Gage, Rosemary Ruether, Judith Plaskow. (Henking, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
It is increasingly obvious that the Holocaust is a watershed event, a phenomenon that changes our perceptions of human nature, religion, morality, and the way we view reality. All that came before must be re-examined and all that follows is shaped by it. Yet, precisely because of its dimensions, the meaning of the Holocaust is impenetrable. Language is inadequate to express the inexpressible. But the moral imperative demands an encounter. This course examines some of the more meaningful "encounters" with the Holocaust found in literature, films, and in theology. It is through the creative and theological mediums that post Holocaust human beings have attempted most sensitively and seriously to come to terms with the universal implications of the Holocaust. (Dobkowski , offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
The course takes a comparative approach in order to explore the meaning, function, and structure of space for religious persons. Topics include: the "wanderings" of the Australian aborigines; habitation modes of American Indians; the Peyote pilgrimage of the Huichol Indians of Mexico; the Hindu Temple; the Buddhist Stupa; and the individual as cosmos in yoga and Chinese alchemical texts. The student is asked to keep a journal reflecting his or her reactions to the readings and reflections on space as experienced in our culture. Prerequisite: One 200 level course in history of religions (210 219), or permission of instructor. (Bloss , offered alternate years)
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