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1.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between notions of spatial and temporal orientation and connects these to the fundamental importance of sacrality in human action and existence. We explore how space is produced, maintained, and made sacred. We begin with two assumptions: first, that expressions of religiosity are principally concerned with an attempt to be a human being, that is, to produce and cultivate a meaningful existence; and, second, that the study of religion is a critical way of thinking about society, the social imagination, and the action of agents within that social. To this end, we may want to understand 'religion' as a scholarly construct. Both these assumptions necessitate a language of the Center that in turn must tend toward a meaningful production of a space within which to live. Some of our questions include: what is sacred space What is a sacred center How are places made sacred through human action To what extent is sacrality a matter of emplacement What role does sacred space play in local and global environments Mr. Walsh.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Asian Studies 385) This seminar offers a comprehensive view of the traditional medical systems and healing modalities of India and China and examines the cultural values they participate in and propound. It also includes a "laboratory" in which hands-on disciplines (such as yoga and qi-gong) are practiced and understood within their traditional contexts. From a study of classical Ayur Vedic texts, Daoist alchemical manuals, shamanic processes and their diverse structural systems, the seminar explores the relationship between healing systems, religious teachings, and social realities. It looks at ways in which the value and practices of traditional medical and healing systems continue in Asia and the West. Mr. Jarow.Prerequisites: Religion 231 or permission of instructor. Not offered in 2008/09.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Asian Studies 388) Since Swami Vivekananda brought the message of "raja yoga" to the Parliament of World Religions on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1893, a number of spiritual teachers from India have achieved notoriety on the world stage and have had a major impact in the formulation of a world and secular "spirituality" in our time. Through phenomenological and historical studies, as well as through close reading and study of primary texts, this course considers the works of these major figures, including Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Ananda Mayi Ma, and Bhagavan Sri Osho Rajneesh. Mr. JarPrerequisites: Religion 152 and/or 231, or permission of instructor.
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5.50 Credits
The essentials of grammar with emphasis on the development of oral-aural proficiency. The department. Open to all classes. Five 50-minute periods plus two hours of oral practice.
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2.00 Credits
Single-semester equivalent of Russian 105-106. Intensive training in fundamental language skills. Designed for beginning students who wish to accelerate their learning of Russian. The department. Open to all classes. Five 75-minute periods, plus four 30-minute drill and conversation sessions.
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1.00 Credits
The great tradition of Russian literature with its emphasis on ultimate existential and moral questions. Selected works by such nineteenth-century masters as Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. Mr. Ungurianu. Open to all classes. Readings and lectures in English. Russian majors see 235a. Two 75-minute periods.
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1.00 Credits
The representation of war in Tolstoy's fiction, centered on a detailed analysis of War and Peace, with this classic novel considered in the context of the writer's earlier and later war narratives, including Sebastopol Tales and "Hadji Murat." Tolstoy is also viewed as a "combatant" in the sense of one who tirelessly challenged accepted notions in aesthetics, ethics, religion, philosophy, history, and politics. Mr. FirtAll readings and discussions in English. Open to all classes. Two 75-minute periods.
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1.00 Credits
Fyodor Dostoevsky was an avid student of the human mind, with particular interest in aberrant and self-destructive behavior. He was steeped in the medical literature of his day, and drew on this knowledge as well as on his four-year-long prison experience to endow his characters with fascinating psychological depth. And after Dostoevsky's death, his works have been cited by Freud and some other psychologists to support theories of their own. This course focuses on a number of works in which Dostoevsky's depiction of psychological issues is particularly crucial to the central message he attempts to convey. Readings include three of the major novels (Crime and Punishment, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov) as well as a number of Dostoevsky's shorter works. A detailed examination of the texts is accompanied by a discussion of the nineteenth century psychological literature which was admired by Dostoevsky, as well as that which was later produced under his influence. Mr. KlimoffAll readings and discussion in English. Two 75-minute periods plus a 50-minute discussion session. Not offered in 2008/09.
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1.00 Credits
Outstanding works of major twentieth-century Russian writers, with emphasis on those who broke with the realist tradition of the nineteenth century. Mr. Firtich. Open to all classes. Readings and lectures in English. Russian majors see 252b. Two 75-minute periods.
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1.00 Credits
A survey of the most striking features of the prerevolutionary cultural tradition within a historical framework. Topics explored include folklore, the religious world of medieval Russia with special emphasis on art and architecturethe challenges of Westernization, and the emergence of national traditions in literature, art, and music. Mr. Klimoff. Open to all classes. All readings and discussion in English. Two 75-minute periods plus occasional film screenings.
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