printer friendly pageRELIGST 279: After God: Why religion at all? (RELIGST 379)
God is dead, but where does religion come from? The end of the quest for God in twentieth century philosophy. Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution plus seminal works of Heidegger, including Being and Time, 'What Is Metaphysics?' 'Nietzsche's Saying `God is Dead.' 'N.B.: Class size limited. Apply early at tsheehan@stanford.edu.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Sheehan, T. (PI)
RELIGST 279X: American Jewish History: Learning to be Jewish in America (AMSTUD 279X, EDUC 279X, HISTORY 288D, JEWISHST 297X)
This course will be a seminar in American Jewish History through the lens of education. It will address both the relationship between Jews and American educational systems, as well as the history of Jewish education in America. Plotting the course along these two axes will provide a productive matrix for a focused examination of the American Jewish experience. History students must take course for at least 3 units.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Kelman, A. (PI)
RELIGST 28: Religion and Science in Dialogue: Possibilities and Future Directions
Religion and science are widely seen to be in conflict with each other, particularly in the West where science was under the aegis of the Church for centuries, until the advent of an independent scientific community and the tragedy of the Galileo affair. This course explores the historical and philosophical grounds for the conflictual view, areas where the two domains remain distinct, and contemporary and future strategies for dialogue on the basis of overlapping understandings of how we go about knowing anything at all. Features guest speakers from Stanford and elsewhere in the scientific, philosophical, historical and theological fields.
RELIGST 281: Asian Religions in America; Asian American Religions (AMSTUD 281, ASNAMST 281, RELIGST 381)
This course will analyze both the reception in America of Asian religions (i.e. of Buddhism in the 19th century), and the development in America of Asian American religious traditions.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
RELIGST 283A: Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Gods (RELIGST 383A)
The radical transformations in Western notions of God between the death of Hegel and the birth of historical materialism, arguing that questions about theism and atheism, humanism, and history formulated in the period 1831-50 are still pertinent. Texts from Hegel, the young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx on issues of God, history, and the social dimensions of human nature.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 290: Majors Seminar
Required of all majors and joint majors. The study of religion reflects upon itself. Representative modern and contemporary attempts to "theorize," and thereby understand, the phenomena of religion in anthropology, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and philosophy. WIM.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Sockness, B. (PI)
RELIGST 297: Senior Essay/Honors Essay Research
Guided by faculty adviser. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bashir, S. (PI)
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Bielefeldt, C. (PI)
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Blair, H. (PI)
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Bielefeldt, C. (PI)
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Blair, H. (PI)
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Brose, B. (PI)
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Carrasco, D. (PI)
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Fonrobert, C. (PI)
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Gelber, H. (PI)
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Gleason, M. (PI)
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Gonnerman, M. (PI)
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Gregg, R. (PI)
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Harrison, P. (PI)
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Hess, L. (PI)
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Kieschnick, J. (PI)
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Lerner, A. (PI)
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Lum, K. (PI)
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Lyman, R. (PI)
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Nanji, A. (PI)
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Pitkin, B. (PI)
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Radwin, A. (PI)
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Rapp, J. (PI)
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Rose, J. (PI)
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Sadeghi, B. (PI)
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Sheehan, T. (PI)
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Sockness, B. (PI)
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Weitzman, S. (PI)
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Yearley, L. (PI)
RELIGST 298: Senior Colloquium
For Religious Studies majors writing the senior essay or honors thesis. Students present work in progress, and read and respond to others. Approaches to research and writing in the humanities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Pitkin, B. (PI)
RELIGST 301: Islamic Law (RELIGST 201)
(This course is combined with
LAW 586) Topics include marriage, divorce, inheritance, ritual, war, rebellion, abortion, and relations with non-Muslims. The course begins with the premodern period, in which jurists were organized in legal traditions called ¿schools of law.¿ After examining the nature and functions of these institutions, we turn to the present era to study the relationship between customary law, state law, and the Islamic legal heritage in Egypt and Indonesia. The course explores Muslim laws and legal institutions and the factors that have shaped them, including social values and customs, politics, legal precedents, and textual interpretation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Sadeghi, B. (PI)
RELIGST 304B: Theories and Methods
Required of graduate students in Religious Studies. Approaches to the study of religion. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bashir, S. (PI)
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