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course examines the social, political, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in Eastern Europe. Since Eastern Europe was home to a majority of world Jewry until the Holocaust, it is important to analyze what was distinctive about the East European Jewish experience and what impact it had on contemporary Jewish life. Topics covered include: Hasidism; the Haskalah; Yiddish literature and language; Polish Jewish politics; anti Semitism; the world of the Yeshiva; Zionism and Socialism; and the Russian Revolution and the creation of Soviet Jewry. (Dobkowski, offered every three years)
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This course examines Jewish life, thought, and cultural development from 1760 to the present. Among the topics discussed are: the rise of Hasidism and reaction to it; the Enlightenment and modern varieties of Judaism; Zionist thought; and revolution and Jewish emancipation. The course also focuses on major Jewish thinkers and actors who have had a profound impact on shaping, defining, and transforming Jewish thought and praxis. This includes thinkers like the Baal Shem Tov, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mordecai Kaplan, and Blu Greenberg. (Dobkowski, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
How do we read sacred texts How can they say anything to us today This course introduces students to central texts of the Jewish and Christian traditions and key methods of reading/interpreting those texts. Through close readings of selected representative texts, we cover themes that may range from origins and cosmologies to liberation, freedom, law and morality. (Dobkowski, Salter, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
When theorists describe the lives of religious people and the meaning of religion, they often speak of homo religious, religious man. What happens when we move beyond a focus upon men to examine the religious lives of women This course focuses exclusively upon women, located within and enacting a variety of cultures and religions. In doing so, it considers women's agency and oppression, the significance of female (or feminine) religious imagery, and the interweaving of women's religious lives with such imagery. (Henking , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
What do religion and sexuality have to do with each other This course considers a variety of religious traditions with a focus on same sex eroticism. In the process, students are introduced to the fundamental concerns of the academic study of religion and lesbian/gay/queer studies. Among the topics considered are the place of ritual and performance in religion and sexuality, the construction of religious and sexual ideals, and the role of religious formulations in enforcing compulsory heterosexuality. Prerequisites: Any 100 level religious studies course or permission of instructor. (Henking, offered alternate years)
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This course approaches the Middle Ages through its representation of love in an array of texts, manuscript illuminations, music and other artistic expressions. It investigates the cultural and social conditions that led to the 12th century "invention of love" and to the birth of a new literary genre: the "romance." This course also evaluates the gender politics and the ideal of "courtly love" as the unifying principle between emotional and physical desires, spiritual aspirations, military prowess and virtue. This is not an historical survey but it respects the chronology starting around 1150, the time the troubadour Bernard de Ventadorn, and ending with the popular romances of the 15th century. The hinge of the course is the study of the 13th century Romance of the Rose, the most influential and famous work of the Middle Ages. Other texts include romances by Chretien de Troyes and Chaucer's dream visi
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3.00 Credits
The Pentecostal movement is characterized by the "descent of the Spirit" and manifested through such practices as speaking in tongues, spontaneous healing, and spontaneous prayer. This movement has been one of the fastest growing forms of Christianity worldwide over the past three decades; two Pentecostal denominations were recently ranked as the first and second fastest growing religious denominations in the U.S. What is this movement and how do we make sense of it Why has it spread so rapidly To whom does it appeal And what has been its effect where it spreads (Salter , offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
This course compares religious movements that arise during times of rapid social change, cultural crisis, or oppression and often, under the guidance of a prophet, foresee the dramatic end of an age and a beginning of a period of redemption. It begins with religious movements among primitive cultures which have been overwhelmed or severely shaken by contacts with the West, then turns to the pursuit of the Millennium in the Middle Ages, Mother Anne and the Shakers, the Rastafarians of Jamaica; and ends with a study of a flying saucer cult in Chicago. Audiovisual aids are used extensively. (Bloss, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nature and function of religious language. The key questions asked are: What is a "sacred" symbol, text, or discourse How is religious language different from everyday language or scientific language, if at all Does religious language enable us to be in touch with ultimate or divine reality, as it claims In order to answer these questions, this course examines some of the literature on philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and various philosophical and theological theories of religious symbols, texts, and discourses. Central to this examination is the question whether and in what sense religious language can be interpreted as embodying and conveying a surplus of meaning, given the presence of other conflicting interpretations (poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, postcolonial, etc.). (TBA , offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
Japan provides a wonderful opportunity to apply the discipline of the history of religions. This field of study traces the rise, development, and changes of religious traditions over time, as well as comparing types of religions. Japanese history begins with the indigenous shamanistic Shinto tradition, which interacts with a number of Buddhist traditions, filtered before their arrival through India, Tibet, and China. This mix is then challenged by Christianity and most recently has been transformed by the growth of "new" religions in sublime and terrifying forms. This course uses a range of sources in the study of Japanese religions and culture. Selections of poetry, drama, novels, and biographies, as well as rituals and art provide glimpses of the richness of Japan. Prerequisites: An introductory course in religious studies or permission of instructor. (Bloss , offered alternate years)
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