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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies. Meaning, origin, and development of mysticism. Purgation, illumination, annihilation, separation, covenant, and union of soul with the Divine as found in world scriptures, writings of prominent mystics, and mystical movements such as Kabbalists, Sufis, and yogic traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Life and teachings of Buddha, foundational concepts of Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism. Buddhist psychology and soteriology, meditative techniques, ethical issues; contemporary Buddhism, particularly in America.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Religious pluralism of Indian sub-continent. Influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Sikhism upon each other and social structures of gender, race, and caste. Karma and rebirth, liberation theories and practices, the interaction of mainstream religions with minority and indigenous tribal rituals and beliefs.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three units of religious studies. Daoist tradition in context of Chinese popular religions. Early Daoist communities, texts, practices covered. Themes include body and cosmos, magical medicine, immortality practice, ritual, and relationship between classical and popular religious traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies. Historical development of Hinduism from its Harappan and Vedic origins to contemporary times. Hindu myths and rituals, gods and goddesses, art, architecture and sacred geographies; Hindu philosophies and ascetic traditions, yogas and tantras; modern Hinduism, diaspora Hinduism and Indian nationalism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies. Recommended: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in broad historical and cultural context. Focus on Chan (Zen) school of Buddhism, Confucius, neo-Confucianism of Ju Xi, and Taoist masters Lao Ze and Chuang Ze.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities. Nature and scope of religious experience; transformations of consciousness and self through altered modes of human awareness and mind-body relationships. Yogic and ascetic experience, Shamanic trance and spirit possession, ecstatic experience and mysticism. Techniques of compassion.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities. Religious dimensions of psyche using insights from academic and transpersonal psychology. Construction of religious identities through spiritual practice and transformation. May be repeated with new content. See Class Schedule for specific content. Maximum credit six units of which three units may be applicable to General Education.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities. Diverse ways religions deal with process of dying and rituals involved in transition of life to death. Grieving, end-of-life decisions, views on afterlife.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities. Views of science and religion as separate, conflicting, complementary, and overlapping. Galileo and the Church, the Scopes Trial, and twentieth century physics provide historical examples for study of assumptions about science and religion.
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