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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Political Science) T.Johnson This course examines the role of Christianity in shaping America s religious identity(ies) and democratic imagination(s). The course will also examine whether, if at all, citizens are justified in retrieving their religious commitments in public debates. The course will include readings from W.E.B. Du Bois, Jeffrey Stout, Richard Rorty, Ronald Thiemann, and Seyla Benhabib
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3.00 Credits
A,B,C] HU Staff An introduction to the history of the study of religion in the modern West. Beginning with Kant's distinction between natural and revealed religion we will follow the curious and contested history of second-order reflection upon religion as it has been carried out in theological, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and sociological spheres. Readings may include: Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, Freud, Tylor, Durkheim, Weber, James, Otto, Benjamin, Eliade, Geertz, Foucault, Douglas, Smith, Haraway, and Derrida.
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3.00 Credits
A] HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) A.McGuire
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) T.Zadeh An exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain. Topics include: literary traditions, translation movements, philosophy, martyrdom, pilgrimage, the Reconquista, the Inquisition, orthodoxy/heterodoxy, religious persecution and intolerance. Prerequisite: Consent.
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3.00 Credits
B] HU K.Koltun-Fromm
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3.00 Credits
C] HU T.Hucks
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) T.Zadeh From contemplating the cosmos to encountering the monstrous, this course explores the place of wonder in Islamic traditions through readings from the Qur'an, exegesis, prophetic traditions, popular literature, travel narratives, descriptive geography, philosophy and theology. Prerequisite: Consent
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) T.Zadeh Overview of the literary expressions of Islamic mysticism through the study of poetry, philosophy, hagiographies, and anecdotes. Topics include: unio mystica; symbol and structure; love and the erotic; body / gender; language and experience.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies) H.Glassman
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3.00 Credits
C] HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies) T.Hucks This seminar will examine the religious history of African American women in the United States. Using primary and secondary texts from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, this course will explore the various religious traditions, denominations, sects, and religious movements in which African American women have historically participated. The course will also analyze the ways in which specific social conditions such as slavery, migration, racial segregation, and class and gender discrimination have historically influenced the religious lives of African American women. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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