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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, and identity. .
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3.00 Credits
This course will use the city to address and investigate a number of central concepts in the study of religion, including ritual, community, worldview, conflict, tradition, and discourse. We will explore together what we can learn about religions by focusing on place, location, and context.
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Critics and defenders of religious belief and practice. Readings include Hume, Mendelssohn, Kant, Schleirermacher, Feuerback, Marx, Kierdegaard and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to classical and contemporary issues, including those raised by the comparative study of religion.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the comparative study of religion focusing on dominant approaches to the conceptualization, interpretation, and explanation of religious phenomena and on key issues relating to the methodologies appropriate to such investigations.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces classical and contemporary theoretical and empirical approaches to the sociological study of religion, including secularization and secularity, religious identity formation, and sociological approaches to religious practice and meaning. Special focus will be on contemporary American topics, including religion and transnationalism, the role of religious actors and discourses in American politics, law and economics, and everyday religious practice. Prior coursework in Religion or Sociology is highly encouraged.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Open to students who have taken one previous ocurse in either Buddhism, Chinese religions, or a history course on China or East Asian. The course examines some central Mahayana Buddhist beliefs and practices through an in-depth study of the Lotus sutra. Schools (Tiantai/Tendai, Nichiren) and cultic practices such as sutra-chanting, meditation, confessional rites, and Guanyin worship based on the scripture. East Asian art and literature inspired by it.
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4.00 Credits
With the Dalai Lama's marked interest in recent advances in neuroscience, the question of the compatibility between Buddhist psychology and neuroscience has been raised in a number of conferences and studies. This course will examine the state of the question, look at claims made on both sides, and discuss whether or not there is a convergence between Buddhist discourse about the mind and scientific discourse about the brain.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of topics in the religious philosophy of Tibet.
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