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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The students will be introduced to the rise of Christianity. Biographical material relating to important figures, major themes, defining moments, and ideas will be identified. The theological debates and subsequent schisms will be examined; the growth of Christian institutions, popular piety, sects and heterodox groups will also be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey of the major Western religious traditions, from the Nineteenth Century to the present, with special emphasis on science and religion, theology and culture, theology of liberation, and Black theology.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with not only the classical but also the current state of the debate in philosophy of religion. The course is intended to familiarize students with philosophical issues in religion-both non-Western and Western religions presuppose respective basic philosophies, which this course analyzes. Also, the course deals with not only theistic religions but also the entire breadth of religions, covering non-theistic, Western, African and Eastern. Other themes include metaphysics, ethics and existence.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies of the relation of religion to culture in American life both in its institutional and non-institutional forms. Special attention will be given to the religious significance of symbols and myths which have developed in American culture. It will also deal with the role of the major religious traditions: Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Judaism, in terms of their historical development and contemporary significance.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies of the role that religion has played in the struggle of the Afro-American to survive in a hostile environment. Special attention will be given to its folk expression in sermon and song, its leading personalities, its institutionalization, and its function in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies of the relation of religion to culture in American life both in its institutional and non-institutional forms. Special attention will be given to the religious significance of symbols and myths which have developed in American culture. It will also deal with the role of the major religious traditions: Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Judaism, in terms of their historical development and contemporary significance.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies of the life and thought of America's greatest proponent of the Theology of Social Action, in relation to his religious heritage, socioeconomic milieu, and the Black (Afro-American) revolt of the mid-Twentieth Century and 1960s.
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3.00 Credits
The course studies a variety of liberation theories and theologies that have been developed by people of African descent in Diaspora. Special attention will be given to political, economic, social, racial and spiritual approaches to the problems of oppression, racism, marginalization and poverty, which are experienced by people of African descent only because of the color of their skin. Additionally, the course also teaches methods and ideologies of black liberation in order to develop and strengthen the student's consciousness of diverse oppressive forces and dynamics among people of African descent.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course designed to acquaint students with not only the classical but also the current state of systematic theology. The course is intended to familiarize students with theological issues. Also, the course deals with a variety of theology covering Western, African, Asian and Eastern perspectives in theology. Other themes include metaphysics, existence ad ontology.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of selected scriptures from various religious traditions including such topics as history, doctrinal teachings, ethical systems, methods of organization, worship, devotion, ritual and meditation. The study pays special attention to the meaning of holiness, authority, inspiration and life.
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