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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to those texts identified as Christian scripture. Particular focus on the social, historical and religious contexts that helped shape this literature and the ways in which these texts witness to the early history of Christianity. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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4.00 Credits
Examines both historical and contemporary aspects of the world's major religions. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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Examines the contemporary personal and social consequences of religiously based values from a multicultural perspective. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the variety of religious expressions and options in the United States, past and present, with some attention to common themes or underlying unity. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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Explores the human phenomenon of religion via the cross-disciplinary perspectives and methods of religious studies. Seeks to gain understanding of a wide range of cross-cultural human religious experiences such as ritual, the sacred, the divine, religious community, religious ethical norms, mysticism, myth and doctrine. Provides a foundation for understanding religious studies as a discipline. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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Examines Judaism as it has been defined and developed as a way of thought and a way of life. The course focuses on central religious concepts, holidays, life-cycle ceremonies, and various forms of religious expression, including prayer and ritual, in order to help students understand what it means, and has meant, to be a Jew. Sponsored in part by the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Same as JWST:113. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Values.
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Explores issues and problems related to the spiritual literature and philosophy of the Jewish people, from the Talmudic period through the present. Topics vary, and may include classical Jewish texts, spiritual traditions, mysticism, religious organization, gender and community, and Judaism in America. The course encourages students to recognize in Jewish texts reflections of Judaism that are diverse and, at times, antithetical to one another. Sponsored in part by the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Same as JWST:115. 4 SH.
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Close reading of both the canonical and non-canonical gospels and their various representations of Jesus. Consideration of the search for the historical Jesus and the nature of the communities from which the gospels derived. 4 SH.
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The life and teachings of Paul in the context of his times. Analysis of the Pauline writings and their treatment of such theological themes as faith, the nature of the church, and the expectations for the future, plus Paul's views on such social issues as marriage and sexuality, slavery, society and the state. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces and analyzes the variety of ways in which women and the feminine are present in biblical texts (Hebrew Bible, Christian Scripture, Apocrypha). Will consider such aspects as feminine imagery used for God, "real" women's roles and status, and ideal or "mythic" feminine images found in the Bible. Same as WMST:207 and JWST:207. 4 SH.
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