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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course explores the fundamental principles which have influenced religious thinking about and action for peace and justice. Although the principal focus is on Western Christian thought, peace and justice traditions of other world religions may also be included.
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Special topics are offered in accord with student demand. These courses are assigned the numbers listed above.
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A study of the thirteen New Testament letters associated with Paul. These letters bear witness to a diversity of belief and practice in the earliest Christian communities. This course will examine the following: the first century historical and political context, Paul's Jewish background, authorship of the letters, Jesus according to Paul, Paul and Women, and primitive Christianity as described in his letters.
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A select survey of "women" in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and New Testament. This course examines biblical stories about women, biblical attitudes about femaleness, women's religious and social roles in their respective historical settings, and recent feminist biblical interpretation
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course in historical theology examines religion through the prism of significant events in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. In examining the original inhabitants of the Delaware Valley, the Lenni Lenape, and their relations with William Penn, the course considers the meaning of race in America. Similarly, through study of the origins of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and of abolitionism, the course deals with race in the United States. Feminist strands of American religious history also emerge in the writings of Lucretia Mott and Jarena Lee, and in the watershed ordination of eleven women in the Episcopal Church in 1974. Important contemporary ideas and forces follow from the history of the region. Readings are both primary and secondary, and students visit historical sites as well as at least one contemporary religious service. The premise of the course is that education about the past and experience in the present lead to an understanding of culture and self.
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A study of health care delivery as an American institution, with the tensions caused by ever increasing technology, the pressures of the market, and American culture's extreme emphasis upon individualism, the downgrading of the religious emphasis upon caring for the whole person, as well as the refusal to set limits. After surveying the contemporary plight of the medical profession, the course will examine dilemmas resulting from informed consent, death and dying, defective newborns, reproductive technologies, epidemics and AIDS. It will explore issues involved with stem cell research, abortion, and cloning. The new field of genetics and what it holds for diagnosis will be examined, and the problems and perils of research. No previous background in science is required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course is designed for students who would like to become involved in community outreach activities or who have already demonstrated an ongoing commitment to such activities. This course will integrate community service with issues of justice from the perspective of theology. Its purpose is to provide not only analysis, but also a deeper appreciation and respect for the disadvantaged, and a more long-lasting commitment to enter into solidarity with them in their struggle for justice. Through readings, reflection, a community service project, and discussion, this course will allow students to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the social, political, spiritual, and economic causes of injustice and how their service influences the clause of social justice.
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or A practical and realistic approach to sexuality, marriage, and parenting. Areas to be explored include: the search for closeness, sexual development, intimate relationships, gender differences, divorce, the meanings of love, holistic and holy sexuality, the marriage commitment, effective communication, the challenges and joys of parenting, techniques of positive discipline, managing the difficult child, perspectives on family life, changes in middle age, nurturing and celebrating the creative venture of becoming a family.
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3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or This course explores the foundations of Ireland's religious history from its foundations in Celtic-Druidic religious practices through to its Christianization under Patrick and subsequent influence on Irish Catholicism, political conflicts, and cultural development. Students focus on how the more democratic monastic movement entered into conflict with the hierarchical Roman Church and the role Irish monasteries played as centers of culture and education from the dark ages to the medieval period. The course directs attention to the role a powerful Roman Catholicism played in the periods of persecution following the Reformation and in the struggle for independence from Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, the course examines the decline of Catholic Church influence on politics through contemporary Ireland's emergence as an economic power, its confrontations with the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, and a budding anti-clericalism. As a Travel Study course, students journey to Ireland to see first hand the various sites that illustrate Ireland's impressive and diverse religious history and cultu
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Concentration Option or Patterns 2 or An introduction to scholarly research through the selection, writing, and small-group presentation of formal papers in an area selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. Required of all religion majors; open to others approved by Chair. Prerequisite: 15 hours of religion. May be taken in junior or senior year.
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