printer friendly pageRELIGST 357: Readings in Daoist Texts (RELIGST 257)
Readings from primary sources. Prerequisite: classical Chinese.
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20 times
(up to 99 units total)
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 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 377: The Later Heidegger: Art, Poetry, Language (PHIL 234B, RELIGST 277)
Lectures and seminar discussions of the problematic of the later Heidegger (1930 - 1976) in the light of his entire project. Readings from "On the Origin of the Work of Art" and Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry.
RELIGST 378: Heidegger: Confronting the Ultimate (RELIGST 278)
Heidegger's work on meaning, the self, and the sacred. Texts include
Being and Time, courses and opuscula up to 1933, the
Letter on Humanism, and
Contributions of Philosophy.
RELIGST 379A: Heidegger on human being and God (RELIGST 279A)
This lecture-seminar first raises the question of essential characteristics of human being, such as temporality, mortality, hermeneutics and the relation to meaning, and then, via readings from Karl Rahner, asks whether human being is open to a possible relation to a supernatural divinity.
RELIGST 380: Schleiermacher: Reconstructing Religion (RELIGST 280)
Idealist philosopher, Moravian pietist, early German Romantic, co-founder of the University of Berlin, head preacher at Trinity Church, translator of Plato's works, Hegel's opponent, pioneer in modern hermeneutics, father of modern theology. Schleiermacher's controversial reconception of religion and theology in its philosophical context.
RELIGST 382: King Solomon and the Search for Wisdom (RELIGST 282)
What is wisdom according to the Bible? The course addresses this question by surveying various biblical and post-biblical texts associated with King Solomon. Other topics include the on-going debate over the historical existence of a Solomonic kingdom, the origins and history of the Jerusalem Temple, and Solomon's role in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition.
RELIGST 391: Teaching Religious Studies
Workshop/seminar for doctoral students in Religious Studies and adjacent fields designed to cultivate methods for teaching Religious Studies in an academic setting.
RELIGST 399: Recent Works in Religious Studies
Readings in secondary literature for Religious Studies doctoral students. May be repeated for credit.
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for credit
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