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3.00 Credits
Supervised field work in the community in cooperation with the field work office. The department. By permission, with any unit in religion as prerequisite and work in other social sciences recommended.
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3.00 Credits
The department. Prerequisite: One semester of appropriate intermediate work in the field of study proposed. Permission of instructor required.
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1.00 Credits
An essay or other project in religion written under the supervision of a member of the department. Normally taken in the second semester, and in the first only under special circumstances. Permission required.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Africana Studies 310b) An examination of the central problem facing all Third-World and developing countries, the confrontation between the process of modernization and religious tradition and custom. Along with social, economic, and political aspects, the course focuses on the problems of cultural identity and crises of meaning raised by the modernization process. Selected case studies are drawn from Africa and Asia. Mr. Mamiya. Prerequisite: Sociology/Religion 261 or Africana Studies 268, or 2 units in Religion or Africana Studies at the 200-level, or by permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Advanced study in selected aspects of the history of religions in the United States. May be taken more than once for credit when the content changes. Topic for 2008/09a: Spiritual Seekers in American History and Culture 1880-2008. This seminar will examine the last 120 years of spiritual seeking in America. It will look in particular at the rise of unchurched religious believers in the U.S., how these believers have relocated "the religious" to different aspects of culture (such as art), what it means to be "spiritual but not religious" today, and the different ways Americans borrow from or embrace religions such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The course will look in detail at Americans traveling to foreign cultures to find new forms of religious wisdom, comfort or truth. Mr. Christopher White.
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1.00 Credits
Examination of selected themes and texts in sacred literature. May be taken more than once when content changes. Prerequisites: I unit at the 200 level or permission by the instructor. Not offered in 2008/09.
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1.00 Credits
Advanced study in selected aspects of religion and contemporary philosophical and political theory. May be taken more than once for credit when content changes. Topic for 2008/09a: Religion, Race, and Democracy in American Pragmatism. How can religion be salvaged when we can no longer rely on supernatural certainty In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a group of American thinkers, the Pragmatists, were seized by this crisis of religious uncertainty, a dilemma with which a set of African American thinkers also grapple. Their answers, classical and contemporary, give rise to a variety of frameworks for thinking about the morals of both democratic participation and of race. This class asks how Pragmatism's discourse on religion makes it especially good terrain for articulating these concerns, and how pragmatic conceptions of religion influence the identity labels we use to create political community. Readings include William James, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Cornel West. Mr. Kahn.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Asian Studies 345) What is the relationship between religion and colonialism and how has this relationship shaped the contemporary world During the nineteenth century the concept of religion was imagined and applied in different ways around the globe. When colonialists undertook to 'civilize' a people, specific understandings of religion were at the core of their violent undertakings. By the mid-nineteenth century, Europe's territorial energy was focused on Asia and Africa, two vast regions where religious and colonial practices collided and often colluded in fascinating ways. This seminar explores some of the ways religion was construed in the nineteenth century-and how this impacted the way in which we think with and use the term today,as well as looking at specific case studies of religious-colonial interactions in China and Southern Africa. Themes for discussion include among others various nineteenth-century interpretations of religion, the relationship between economic and capitalist ideologies, the notion of frontier religion, and the imagination and production of society. Mr. Wals
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Jewish Studies 346) Advanced study in selected aspects of Jewish thought and history. May be taken more than once for credit when the content changes. Prerequisites: 1 unit at the 200 level or permission of instructor. Not offered in 2008/09.
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1.00 Credits
An examination of selected themes, issues, or approaches used in illuminating the religious dimensions and dynamics within particular cultures and societies, with attention to the benefits and limits of the comparative method. Past seminars have focused on such topics as myth, ritual, mysticism, and iconography. May be taken more than once for credit when content changes. Topic for 2008/09b: Dreams, Myths, and Visions in the Religious Imagination. This seminar focuses on the understanding and utilization of dreams and myths in Eastern and Western religious traditions. It explores dream and visionary passages in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic works as well as traditional interpretations of dreams, and their attendant myths in India and Tibet. In addition to working with traditional commentaries and interpretations, the course considers contemporary theoretical approaches from structuralist and post-structuralist sources, depth psychology, and cognitive science. Readings include passages from the Hebrew Scriptures, the Book of Revelation, the Qur'an, the Bhagvata-Purana, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Critical materials include the works of Tsong Kha Pa, Freud, Jung, Laberge, and others. Mr. Jarow.
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