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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course inquires into the origins and developments of, as well as the current theological issues concerning, Christian rites and symbols. This course also studies some of the problems of contemporary sacramental theology.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A study of the shape and practice of worship, especially in Western Christian Sunday liturgy. The course understands worship as lying between art and life. The course examines both symbol and ritual and surveys the development of Sunday worship and contemporary issues.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course examines the major religious traditions that originated in India and China: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. The topics covered will include basic doctrines and practices of each religion, major figures like Confucius and the Buddha, central scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita and Dao De Jing, and the impact of each religion on society and culture. Secondary attention will be paid to other religious traditions from the Far East, such as Sikhism, Jainism, or Shinto.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course examines Judaism and Islam. The Judaism segment of this course covers the historical origins, roots and developments of Judaism as a religion. The course will evaluate Jewish social and cultural values as well as religious problems faced by Jews today. The Islam segment covers the origins of Islam, the background and development of the Qur'an, Muslim traditions and values as well as the inner tensions, contemporary movement, and interaction with the non-Muslim world. Secondary attention will be paid to Middle Eastern Christianity (Coptic, Syrian, etc.), Zoroastrianism or Ba'hai, or to other aspects of the religious life of Israel, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course offers a critical study of the principal figures who have shaped religious thought in the modern world and exerted influence on societies and their ecclesiastical and political systems. Each phase of the course is structured around a significant religious writer or theme in order to analyze the issues of justice, peace, and responsible leadership in both church and state.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or An examination of the interaction between women and religion in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Readings will attend to the role of women in the origins and development of these traditions, to contemporary women’s efforts to reform the traditions, and to recent diverse women’s spiritualities outside the mainstream tradition.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Patterns 2 or Concentration Option or This course explores contemporary spirituality in relation to the phenomena of sports. Students study how human beings encounter the Holy in the midst of everyday life with emphasis on how experiences associated with sport, either as athlete participant or as identifying with athletes and teams impact on developing a critical assessment of one's personal values system. This assessment, in turn, becomes a focus on the ways in which one relates to the Holy or the Transcendent in the course of one's life.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A study of religion and religious themes in literature. Attention will be paid both to literary critical concern and to religious analysis of the readings. This course is cross listed with ENG 243.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A study of the origins of the American national character, the religious and secular roots which have nourished it, and the myths, especially those of being a chosen people, the myth of Progress, and that of unlimited freedom. The dominant Protestant tradition in its Calvinist, Evangelical and Fundamentalist forms will be examined, well as the the religious "outsiders" who came to be Americans: Catholics, Jews, Native Americans, Blacks, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and East Asians. The secular tradition will be explored as a religion of possessive individualism, and consumerism as new way of being religious. Finally, the apocalyptic strain in American thought will be considered as feeding the desire for American world empire.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course studies and promotes discussion on the variety of moral perspectives on selected current issues: War. Racism. Social Justice, Sexual Conduct. Abortion. Euthanasia. Women's Rights. Capital Punishment, as these relate to diverse faith traditions.
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