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4.00 Credits
Religious ideology and rhetoric play a significant role in violent conflict in the modern period, a phenomenon that we are only now coming to appreciate fully. In this course we will examine some of the central religious issues that have been at the forefront of modern conflicts. We will consider some of the ways that religious terminology, symbolism, and myth have been employed as a way of marking difference and setting identity boundaries from the First World War to the current "War on Terror." Meets general academic requirement R.
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4.00 Credits
Gender and sexuality as fundamental aspects of human experience play important roles in all major religious systems whether explicit and positive or suppressed and denigrated. In this course we will explore how the varied understandings of gender and sexuality in different cultures and at different times have influenced religious practice and belief and how, in turn, religions have affected these understandings. We will also consider how this interaction between gender and sexuality and religion has affected the status of men and women in their various roles and orientations. Meets general academic requirement R.
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21.00 Credits
Students will study the distinctive relationship between these two religious traditions in recent decades. Topics will be drawn from the current public discourse of Judaism and Christianity. Among the many factors shaping the selfunderstandings and mutual understandings of the two communities we will consider particularly the legacy of the Holocaust, increased religious diversity in Europe and North America, the State of Israel, and the postmodern critique of religious claims. Both Jews and Christians ground their religious selfunderstandings in biblical revelation - however conceived. Both receive that revelation mediated through an interpretive tradition - however explicit. This opens an avenue to introduce the ideas of revelation, hermeneutics, tradition, social location, and identity politics in relation to significant theological and communal factors in both traditions. Meets general academic requirement R.
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4.00 Credits
Throughout history individuals of many religious and cultural traditions have sought personal, immediate experience of the divine. Such ecstatic communion is recognized as mysticism. Mysticism has generated some of the most remarkable texts in the religious libraries of the world. This course examines mystical traditions across cultures, exploring some of these texts. Symbols of transformation are interpreted as both culturally determined and universal. Meets general academic requirement R.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores major themes in the study of religion using Star Trek as a primary source along with more traditional, written texts. Selected excerpts from the original series, the Next Generation series, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager will be viewed and discussed. Star Trek will be presented as a media forum for public debate on changing attitudes towards the role of religion in our culture over the past thirty years. It has presented constructions of meaning and value across cultures, highlighting themes fundamental to our understanding of religions. These themes include the nature of the divine, the role of myth and ritual, evolution in both the spiritual and biological sense, the role of technology in our understanding of religious systems, attitudes toward "other" religions, and the transformative power of religious experience. Meets general academic requirement R.
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4.00 Credits
This course is required of all Religion Studies majors and is a survey of the various methods used in the study of religion and an examination of several theories about the nature of religion. Prerequisite: Religion Studies major or minor or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the forms and images of religion in the Indian subcontinent, concentrating on Hinduism and Buddhism. The religious spirit, ancient and modern, will be examined through a study of mythological, scriptural, historical, cultural, and artistic phenomena. Meets general academic requirement D or R.
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4.00 Credits
This course will address the origins and development of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism and trace the interactions of these religions as they have shaped the spiritual and ethical environment that exists in China today. The course will also consider material culture, popular forms, and folk traditions and, finally, the unique challenges posed by the modern Chinese political situation. Meets general academic requirement D or R.
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4.00 Credits
Students will study the native Japanese religious tradition, Shinto, as well as the Chinese traditions that have become fundamental to Japanese religion (Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism) as they have been interpreted in Japan. The course will also consider material culture, popular forms, folk traditions, and the "new religions" of modern Japan as well as attitudes toward religion in today's Japan Meets general academic requirement D or R.
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4.00 Credits
From its origins in India to its development throughout East and Southeast Asia and beyond, Buddhism has prospered in a wide variety of cultures and environments. This course will introduce students to the origins, evolution, and manifestations of Buddhism in scripture, practice, and artistic expression. Meets general academic requirement D or R.
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