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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A survey of some major religious phenomena in the relatively recent histories of selected Native American traditions with emphasis on the tribal religions of North America and the religions of the civilizations of Mexico and Central America.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the dominant religion of south Asia that focuses on the contemporary "embodiment" of religion in culture. This course will explore ways in which religion permeates the Hindu cycle of life, shapes choices such as occupation and marriage partner, and infuses Indian arts. It will ask whether the variation in these patterns over time, among regions of India, in city and country, and among different groups, are diverse "Hinduisms" that nevertheless contain a vital unity.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Asia's most influential religion that focuses on the contemporary "embodiment" of religion in culture. This course will explore ways in which Buddhists have used visual arts, music, drama, asceticism, devotion, etc., to attain spiritual goals and express enlightenment. It will look at both monastic and popular Buddhism, concentrating on South and Southeast Asia but with some reference to East Asia and the West.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the formative role of religious consciousness in the development of the cultures of China and Japan.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in Buddhist philosophy and practice in Tibet.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the impact of Biblical world views, perspectives, and laws upon the generation and resolution of contemporary problems such as environmental abuse, sexism and sexual problems, injustice, and war.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the history of Jewish immigration to America and how the American experience has produced and nurtured new forms of Judaism, notably Reform and Conservative. The course concentrates on the last hundred years of American history and includes such topics as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israel. This course is cross-listed as JDST 206.
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3.00 Credits
The course begins by looking at the variety of approaches to the Holocaust or Shoah. Second, it inquires into the roots of the Holocaust in Christian religious anti-Semitism. Third, the course examines the genocidal events of the Shoah itself and the responses to hose events by a small resistance movement within Germany. Fourth, the course concludes by looking at the various responses to the Holocaust, attempting to understand its impact on the future of religion itself.
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3.00 Credits
The course chronicles the relationship between religious ideas and cultural context from the founding of the first colonies through the rise of the Religious Right and New Age movements. Our journey will be guided by several key metaphors that have characterized the religious ethos of America: America as "The Promised Land"; America as the "land of opportunity", as the "melting pot." We will use primary sources, including fiction, poetry, and film.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the variety of ways that religious themes grace, evil, redemption and genres parable, apocalypse are reflected, transformed in Biblical, classical, and contemporary literary texts.
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