| RELG 101-01 |
Religion: What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters
Instructor: Blayne Harcey
Course Description:
The course introduces students to methods in the study of religion and to major world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The approach in the course is comparative and interdisciplinary.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 08 |
| RELG 108-01 |
God in America
Instructor: Jodie Vann
Course Description:
The course chronicles the relationship between religious ideas and cultural context from the founding of the first colonies through the rise of the Religious Right and New Age movements. Our journey will be guided by several key metaphors that have characterized the religious ethos of America: America as "The Promised Land"; America as the "land of opportunity", as the "melting pot." We will use primary sources, including fiction, poetry, and film.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 317 |
| RELG 109-01 |
Religions of Asia
Instructor: Pascal Kim
Course Description:
Topics that compare religions geographically (e.g., Religions of the Middle East; Religions of Asia; Religions of Africa), in terms of elements of religion (e.g., Myth and Ritual; Religious Experiences; Religion and Society), or in the ways that religions respond to contemporary issues (e.g., Religion and Capitalism; Religion and Race; Religion and Gender).
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
STERN 103 |
| RELG 116-01 |
Religion, Nature, and the Environment
Instructor: Jodie Vann
Course Description:
This course explores how various religious and spiritual traditions have understood, conceptualized, and interacted with the natural world. Incorporating from both conventional religions (such as Catholicism, Judaism, and Buddhism) as well as newer spiritual forms (like Contemporary Paganism), the course provides a comparative survey of the relationships between religiosity and nature. Themes under examination include notions of human dominion, stewardship, panentheism, and naturalism. Students will consider how religious ideologies have shaped conceptions of nature, and how changing understandings of the natural world have challenged religious ideas.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 411 |
| RELG 204-01 |
Judaism
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 204-01. A basic course in the history, basic beliefs and practices, and modern manifestations of Judaism as a religion. The course concerns itself with the interactions of Judaism and other world religions, notably Christianity. This course is cross-listed as JDST 204.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| RELG 209-01 |
The Age of Faith: Medieval Europe Between Church and State
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 101-01. This survey course will study the development of European civilization during the period c.400 to 1500 with special attention to the rise of the papacy and religious conflict. It will consider the impact of such events as the decline of the Roman Empire, the Germanic invasions, the development of Christianity and the Church, the emergence of feudalism, the expansion of Islam and the Crusades, and the creation of romantic literature.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| RELG 215-01 |
Jewish Environmental Ethics
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 215-01. Since the 1960's many writers on environmental issues have blamed our contemporary environmental crises in part on a so-called "Judeo-Christian" worldview, rooted in the Hebrew Bible. Such writers assert that the biblical heritage shared by these two religious traditions advocates an unhealthy relationship between humanity and nature, one in which human beings are destined to conquer the earth and master it. In this course we will explore Jewish perspectives on nature and the natural world through close readings of biblical and other classical Jewish theology, history and ritual practice, we will also examine the ways in which this motif is re-conceptualized in modern secular contexts (ie, Zionism, and the kibbutz movement). We will conclude by studying contemporary varieties of Jewish environmental advocacy. In addition to texts focused specifically on Judeo-Christian traditions, the syllabus will include other classic works of Environmental ethics foundational to the field of Environmental studies.Offered every three years in rotation with the offering of ENST 111. This course is cross-listed as JDST 215.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| RELG 222-01 |
Cultivating Compassion: An Introduction to the Practice of Buddhism
Instructor: Blayne Harcey
Course Description:
A study of Asia's most influential religion that focuses on the contemporary "embodiment" of religion in culture. This course will explore ways in which Buddhists have used visual arts, music, drama, asceticism, devotion, etc., to attain spiritual goals and express enlightenment. It will look at both monastic and popular Buddhism, concentrating on South and Southeast Asia but with some reference to East Asia and the West.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| RELG 259-01 |
Islam
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 259-01 and MEST 259-01. An introduction to Islamic beliefs and practices in their classical forms: rituals, law, mysticism, and other topics. The course will consider aspects of Islamic cultures and societies in medieval and modern times. This course is cross-listed as HIST 259 and MEST 259.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 203 |
| RELG 260-01 |
Religious Conflict, Violence, and Peacemaking
Instructor: RELG STAFF
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 216-01 and SOCI 230-01.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| RELG 318-01 |
Keys to Music 2: Sacred Roots
Instructor: Greg Strohman, Robert Pound
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MUAC 125-01. What are the deepest roots of contemporary music, popular and arcane? In this course, we begin by studying the earliest written music in the Western world. We trace its technical developments from the modal music of the secluded monastery to the contrapuntal complexity of Renaissance musical cathedrals. Doing so, we begin assembling a tool kit for musical performance, composition, and analysis, including modes and the incipience of the major-minor key system.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
WEISS 212 |
| RELG 410-01 |
Interpreting Religion
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
An advanced introduction to some fundamental issues of theory and method in the academic study of religion. Selected religious phenomena will be examined using the perspectives such as those of the history of religions, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philology, philosophy, and theology. Emphasis will be placed upon methods of research and styles of writing in the study of religion. Prerequisite: One RELG course.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
EASTC 112 |