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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The first part of the course deals with the life and teachings of the historical Buddha and the early forms of Buddhism in India. The second part traces the spread of Buddhism to Tibet, China and Japan, while the last part focuses on Buddhism in America today. ( Fall 2007)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines various central themes of the New Testament writing through a study of historical, linguistic, theological and sociological formation and findings. ( Spring ‘08)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the influence of religion on sexual ethics, gender roles, and expectations of sexual pleasure. Readings include the Bible, the Kama Sutra, Roman Catholic moral theology (translated from the Latin by the instructor), Taoist marriage manuals, Japanese love poetry, feminist perspectives and the advice literature of Protestant evangelicals. Projects evaluate what the West might learn from the traditions of Asia and Africa and from its own heretics, cultists and critics.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the religious dimensions of Chinese and Japanese politics in the 19th- and 20th- centuries. For China, attention will be given to the 19th- century Taiping Rebellion and Mao's 20th- century Communist Revolution. For Japan, the focus will be on the role of Shinto in Japan's rise as an imperialist power in East Asia between 1880 and 1945 and its controversial legacy in Japan today. ( Fall '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course traces several important themes from their roots in the Bible to results in the later history of the West. Topics include creation, sexual laws and gender roles, national destinies and holy war, work and prosperity, relations between the human and the divine, and the end of the world.
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3.00 Credits
The story of the native nations and the Pilgrims, revolutionaries and missionaries, presidents and cult leaders who have made the United States what George Santayana called "a nation with the soul of a church." After exploring the religious sources of such basic American values as democracy, capitalism and toleration, the course examines how the concept of national destiny has developed in crises from the French and Indian Wars through Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and contemporary culture wars.
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3.00 Credits
Through the use of the Qur'an, traditions of Prophet Muhammad, and other sources, this course examines the Islamic belief system and its impact on the 7th- century Arabian peninsula and the modern world.
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3.00 Credits
Al-Islam, a traditional monotheistic religion, has had a difficult interface with the modern, pluralistic culture of the United States. This course explores how this situation came to be. Particular emphasis will be placed on: early western ideas about Islam; immigration; African American Islam; Middle East politics; the media and the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. United States social and foreign policies toward Muslims and Islamic countries are also examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the ideological journey of the man who was born as Malcolm Little and died as El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz. The course also explores the political and religious context which Malcolm X developed as a way of understanding political and religious life in the United States during the 40s, 50s and 60s.
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3.00 Credits
The ideological journey of a man who was a central figure in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s is the focus of this course. In particular, this course will center on the sociocultural context and the theological underpinning of King's particular form of non-violent direct action.
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