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RELIGST 357X: Female Divinities in China (HISTORY 293E, HISTORY 393E, RELIGST 257X)

This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this is related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them a dominant place, in the religious sphere. It is based entirely on readings in English.

RELIGST 358: Japanese Buddhist Texts (RELIGST 258)

Readings in medieval Japanese Buddhist materials. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: background in Japanese or Chinese.
Last offered: Winter 2013 | Repeatable for credit

RELIGST 359: Readings in Buddhist Studies

Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)
Instructors: Harrison, P. (PI)

RELIGST 360: Buddhism & Modernity (RELIGST 260)

Is Buddhism a philosophy? A mind science? An ancient mystical path? A modern construct? This seminar will evaluate a variety of answers to these questions by exploring how Buddhism has been understood in the modern era. Our primary source materials will range from Orientalist poetry to Zen essays to Insight Meditation manuals to 21st-century films. We will examine how these works shape Buddhism, consider their pre-modern influences, and turn to recent scholarship to discuss how romantic, imperialist, anti-modern, nationalist, therapeutic, and scientific frames depict one of today's most popular religions.nnThis course is cross-listed as RELIGST 260/360. Undergraduates must enroll in RELIGST 260 for 5 units. Graduate students must enroll RELIGST 360 for 3-5 units.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

RELIGST 361: Precepts and Ordinations in East Asia

Japanese Buddhism is well-known for its very loose interpretation of monastic precepts and ordinations. Although some may think that these subjects are nothing more than out-of-date lists of rules, the study of the precepts involves social history, doctrine, and religious practice. In this course, we examine the origins and the development of the bodhisattva precepts, beginning with a brief outline of the vinaya, and then progressing to Indian and Chinese views of the bodhisattva precepts. The last half of the course focuses on how Japanese Tendai¿s unique interpretation of the precepts was based on Chinese apocryphal texts and Chinese Tiantai doctrines. We conclude with reading Japanese Tendai texts written in Chinese. Because the Tendai tradition had a loose administrative structure, a variety of interpretations developed.nThe course is composed of reading texts written in Chinese by East Asian monks. Although I will lecture for approximately 30 minutes of each class, the focus of the class will be on reading and translating short sections of primary sources together. We will also pay attention to the use of such tools as dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, and data bases of texts. Students are expected to participate in discussions and to come to class prepared to read the primary sources in class.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4
Instructors: Groner, P. (PI)

RELIGST 370: Comparative Religious Ethics

The difference that the word religious makes in religious ethics and how it affects issues of genre. Theoretical analyses with examples from W. and E. Asia. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2010

RELIGST 372: Kant on Religion (RELIGST 272)

Critical examination of Kant¿s principle writings on religion against the background of his general theoretical and practical philosophy and guided by the hypothesis that his philosophy of religion continues to offer significant insights and resources to contemporary theories of religion. Recent reassessments of Kant on religion in the secondary literature will also be read and discussed

RELIGST 373: Historicism and Its Problems: Ernst Troeltsch, the Study of Religion, and the Crisis of Historicism (RELIGST 273)

Examination of the early twentieth-century historian of religion, philosopher of culture, sociologist of religion, Christian theologian, and philosopher of history, Ernst Troeltsch, within the context of the late nineteenth-century "crisis of historicism," i.e., the historicization and relativization of religious, ethical, social, and political norms. Attention to seminal theorists of history (Herder, Kant, Ranke, Hegel, Nietzsche) in the post-Enlightenment German intellectual tradition and the attempts of Christian and Jewish thinkers in the Weimar era (Barth, Gogarten, Rosenzweig, L. Strauss) to "overcome" the crisis wrought by a radically historical approach to human culture.
Last offered: Autumn 2013

RELIGST 374: From Kant to Kierkegaard (RELIGST 274)

(Graduate students register for 374. Undergrads register for 274 for 5 units.) The philosophy of religion emerged from the European Enlightenment as a new genre of reflection on religion distinct from both dogmatic theology and rationalist dreams of a "natural" religion of reason. Neither beholden to pre-critical tradition, nor dismissive of what Thomas Nagel has termed "the religious attitude," this new, ostensibly secular, genre of religious thought sought to rethink the meaning of Christianity at a time of immense philosophical ferment. The main currents of religious thought in Germany from Kant's critical philosophy to Kierkegaard's revolt against Hegelianism. Emphasis on the theories of religion, the epistemological status of religious discourse, the role of history (especially the figure of Jesus), and the problem of alienation/reconciliation in seminal modern thinkers: Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard.
Last offered: Autumn 2014

RELIGST 375: Kierkegaard (RELIGST 275)

(Graduate students register for 375.) Close reading of Kierkegaard's magnum opus, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, in its early 19th-century context.
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