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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the religions of native peoples and tribes in Africa and the Americas. Centers on the nature and definition of religion in themyths, rituals, social roles and political traditions of the tribes. Offered in alternate years.
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An investigation of the interrelationship among textual and non-textual forms of religious expression in South Asian religion. Readings fromHindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions will be correlated with images and symbols drawn from sculpture, painting, dance, and film. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
In our society, "myth" is oftenperceived as "storytelling" that has an element of falsehood built into it. For archaic Greeksociety, likemany traditional societies that operate on ancestral principles,myths are the ultimate way of encoding truth values. Storytelling, therefore, is not just entertainment; it is a set of patterns set up by a specific society that gives themembers of that culture a sense of their own identity. In this course we will begin to understand how the storytelling traditions of Greece establish social order and define what it means to be truly civilized. Offered annually.
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Analyzes literature fromthe Tanakh/Old Testament and archaeology to explore the complexities of the origins and development of ancient Israel's religious ideologies, and to examine the process by which its sacred texts were written to represent an idealized past and to shape its future. Offered in alternate years.
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Studies Judaism from the exile by the Babylonians to the JewishWar. Focuses on the Jewish reaction to three historical events: the destruction of Solomon's Temple, the desecration of the Second Temple, and its ultimate destruction. Reconstructs the religious and political climates which resulted fromthese historical struggles and which provided the ground for the beginning of Christianity. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the growth of Christianity from its origins as a Jewish group to a religion in the second century, which distinguished itself from Judaism. The focus will be on the emergence of three Christian groups by the middle of the second century: the Jewish Christians, the Pauline Christians, and the Johannine Christians. Offered in alternate years.
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This course focuses on the diverse forms of popular religion in East Asian societies, such as cult, pilgrimage, divination, folk ecology and ancestral worship.While without systematic formulation of doctrines and practices, popular religions are as vibrant as those institutionalized religions, if not more. Thus this course aims to introduce students to the richness of the East Asian culture through a close examination of such popular expressions of religiosity, and the complex and sometimes fluid relationship among these popular religions. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history and theology of Hindu-Christian encounter, with special attention given to colonial rule and missionary ideology in India, strategies of Hindu reform, and the current status of Hindu-Christian dialogue. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
An intellectual history of 19th and 20th century Christian and Judaic thought, this course is organized around major themes in religious thought (e.g., the idea "God," the relationship between reason and faith, and thenature of history). Representative works by major thinkers in Christian and Judaic theology and philosophy are read to see how these thinkers have dealt with such themes over time and in relation to wider currents in intellectual thought. Offered in alternate years.
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Philosophers have long been avid readers of the Bible, frequently debating questions of authority andmeaning regarding text. In this class, we will grapple with philosophical debates over themeanings of specific passages of the Bible as well as explore disputes over such topics as revelation and prophecy. Offered annually.
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