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The unique character of contemporary Roman Catholicism will be examined in this course, with particular attention to the personal, institutional, historical, cultural, and social aspects of the tradition within the American context. The belief systems of American Catholics will be given special consideration. Prerequisite: SEM 100. 3 credits
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This course focuses on the African-American religious experience in the United States. Topics include: slave religion, nation of Islam, the rise of African-American churches, racism within institutional religion, and the role of African-American church leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesse Jackson. 3 credits
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No course description available.
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This course traces in rigorous depth the figure of Eve as represented and interpreted for more than three thousand years in Judeo-Christian thought and more broadly in Western culture. It explores with particular intensity Eve's relationship to both hegemonic and subversive portrayals of femininity, as well as the extent to which her passionately contested story continues to influence the way women today imagine and experience themselves as spiritual, intellectual, and sexual subjects. Beyond a focus on religious literacy, a scrutiny of the politics and pleasures of Biblical exegesis will introduce students to critical concepts in the fields of art history, folklore, literary, feminist and popular culture studies. 3 credits
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This course is concerned with the variety of religious groups and movements found in both historical and contemporary American religion, with a focus on their actual teachings, their religious significance for Western culture and Western perceptions of what is religious, the variety of ways civic organizations and churches have responded/are responding to them, and the artistic expressions created by members of these belief systems. Prerequisite: SEM 100. 3 credits
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We will examine the close relationship between literature and religion using novels, scholarly articles, and book-excerpts in Literature, Literary Theory, and Philosophy. These materials will help us to articulate and explore different conceptualizations of the literary and the spiritual. Writers consistently bring their convictions into conflict through creative expression. The characters in their novels struggle with such forces as beliefs--their own and those of others individuals--institutions, identities, and values. In this course's readings, some of these characters reach a fuller understanding of their own religious convictions (C.S. Lewis); experience a brief existential epiphany before a violent end (Flannery O'Conner); or their society's complex and storied belief system is rendered powerless by modern forces (Chinua Achebe).
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The class introduces students to the interface of pyschology and religious studies. It examines the environment in which psychology was first introduced in Europe and America, the influence of various psychoanalytic practices, and the perspective of experimental and cognitive approaches to psycho-religious phenomenon. The course will also address salient contributions to this topic from Eastern religion, specifically Hinduism and Zen Buddhism. 3 credits. Individual & Society
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This course offers an examination of how Christianity of how Christianity is interpreted and lived by non-Western cultures. Topics include the African-American, feminist and Hispanic critiques of Western theology. 3 credits.
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This course will explore the traditional and contemporary schools of Catholic Christian spirituality as proposed by many Church mystics. Prayer experiences and meditation modalities will be included and current trends in feminist, ecological and quantum theories will be surveyed. 3 credits
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No course description available.
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