printer friendly pageRELIGST 224B: Unveiling the Sacred: Explorations in Islamic Religious Imagination (RELIGST 324B)
Poetry and prose in translation as well as historical studies. Islamic movements invested in the idea that the sensory world has a hidden or esoteric counterpart that can be understood or experienced through following particular religious programs. Various forms of Shi'ism and Sufism, millenarian and apocalyptic movements, the Nation of Islam and its offshoots. Philosophical propositions, historical contexts, and the role of ritual in the construction of religious systems.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Bashir, S. (PI)
RELIGST 226A: Judaism and Hellenism (RELIGST 326A)
interactions and conflicts between Jews and Greeks in the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great and the cultural/religious repercussions of their encounter. In what ways were Jews influenced by Greek culture? In what ways, and for what reasons, did they resist it? And how the interaction of these cultures shape the subsequent development of Judaism and Christianity? Jewish texts in the Greco-Roman period, including Jewish-Greek writers like Philo of Alexandria, the Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, selected writings from the New Testament, and the Passover Haggadah.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Weitzman, S. (PI)
RELIGST 237: Jewish and Christian Rome, 1st to 6th Centuries
To what extent are Judaism and Christianity products of the Roman Empire, and shaped by its politics? Literature concerning Jewish and Christian perceptions of power, and archaeological and artistic traces of both religions in the imperial city of Rome. What roles did strategies of resistance and accommodation play in the formation of these religious communities¿ emerging identities? Possible optional field trip to Rome over Spring break.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 247: Chinese Buddhist Texts (RELIGST 347)
Readings in Chinese Buddhist texts, including selections from s¿tras, ¿¿stras, Vinaya texts, indigenous monastic rules (qingui), and Chan texts (yulu, gongan). Prerequisite: background in classical Chinese
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 25 units total)
Instructors:
Harrison, P. (PI)
RELIGST 248A: Chinese Buddhism Beyond the Great Wall (RELIGST 348A)
The thought, practice, and cultural resonance of the sorts of originally Chinese Buddhism that flourished to the north and northwest of China proper during the two to three centuries following the fall of the Tang - i.e., under the Khitan Liao (907-1125) and the Tangut Xixia (1032-1227) dynasties - with special emphasis on the later fortunes of the Huayan, Chan, and Mijiao (Esoteric) traditions. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Chinese.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Gimello, R. (PI)
RELIGST 250B: Depictions of the Buddha (RELIGST 350B)
The image of the Buddha changes relatively little from its earliest conceptions. The role of the image and the notion of the Buddha do change fundamentally with time and place. South Asian depictions of the Buddha from the earliest symbolic representations to the wrathful and peaceful forms found in the esoteric Buddhism of India and the Himalayas, as well as the changing conceptions of the Buddha to which these depictions are related.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Luczanits, C. (PI)
RELIGST 251A: Buddhist Visions of Paradise (RELIGST 351A)
Textual and art-historical evidence for the early development in the greater Indian cultural area of the cult of the Buddhas of the present and their paradise worlds ("Pure Land Buddhism").
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Harrison, P. (PI)
RELIGST 258: Japanese Buddhist Texts (RELIGST 358)
Readings in medieval Japanese Buddhist materials. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: background in Japanese or Chinese.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bielefeldt, C. (PI)
RELIGST 271A: Dante's Spiritual Vision
Mysticism, poetry, ethics, and theology in Dante's
Divine Comedy. Supplementary readings from classical authors such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas, and from modern writers. Students may take 271A without B.
Last offered: Autumn 2006
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
RELIGST 273: Historicism and Its Problems (RELIGST 373)
The emergence, varieties, and crises of historicism as a world view and approach to the study of religion in the 19th and 20th centuries. The implications of historical reason and historical consciousness for the philosophy of religion, ethics, and theology.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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