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Religion Current Courses

Spring 2025

Course Code Title/Instructor Meets
RELG 101-01 Religion: What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters
Instructor: Peter Schadler
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.
11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411
RELG 107-01 Jews, Christians and Pagans in the Time of Jesus
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 107-01. A critical examination and attempt to understand the New Testament as the written traditions which articulated the faith, expectations, and actions of the early Christians as they responded within Jewish and Greek culture to the historical events of their day, and especially as they responded to the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. This course is cross-listed as JDST 107.
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104
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).
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
EASTC 411
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.
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 411
RELG 116-02 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.
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 207
RELG 203-01 Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament in Context
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 203-01. A critical examination and attempt to understand the literature and the antecedent traditions remembered and formulated by the ancient Israelites in terms of their own views of God. This literature is interpreted in the context of events and cultures of the ancient Near East. This course is cross-listed as JDST 203.
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 314
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.
12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411
RELG 260-01 Beyond Belief: Jewish Secular Culture from Spinoza to Seinfeld
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 250-01.
11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 314
RELG 490-01 Senior Seminar
Instructor: Jodie Vann
Course Description:
Advanced investigation of methods and critical perspectives for the study of religion with a focus to be determined by the instructor. Writing enriched. Prerequisite: 410 or permission of the instructor.
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, R
STERN 7
RELG 500-01 Religion at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Instructor: Jodie Vann
Course Description:

RELG 500-02 Taoism
Instructor: Jodie Vann
Course Description: