RELIGST 103: Religion and Global Conflict
A weekly lecture series - drawing upon experts in various disciplines, departments, and centers on campus and beyond - which seeks to understand and explain religion's renewed, and often violent, public and political relevance for global affairs at the beginning of the 21st century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Sockness, B. (PI)
RELIGST 104: Views of the Human Body in Daoism
The human body as seen in Daoist traditions and related areas, particularly cosmol-nnogy and medicine. Major sources including images and charts, and the views of the human being that they reflect.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
RELIGST 107: Hindus and Muslims in South Asia
The history of Hindus and Muslims living together in S. Asia for over 1,000 years. Peace and conflict, composite cultures, and interdependent social worlds. Partition in 1947 and the creation of separate nations. Religion, arts, society, and politics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Hess, L. (PI)
RELIGST 108A: Religious Epics of India: The Ramayana
The much-loved Ramayana story, from the ancient Sanskrit epic poem of Valmiki to other avatars through the ages--vernacular and Sanskrit poetry, theater, the chart-busting television serial of the late 1980s, classic comics, animated film. Religion, politics, cultural ideals, gender, media,. Recent battles over "Ram's birthplace" in Ayodhya and their effects on Hindu-Muslim relations and political power.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hess, L. (PI)
RELIGST 113B: Japanese Religion Through Film
Themes in premodern and modern Japanese religion though animations, movies and documentaries
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Lin, I. (PI)
RELIGST 11N: The Meaning of Life; Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Religious Perspectives
What can we know about Jesus by historical means rather than by faith? What words in the Gospels can we be sure are authentically historical? What deeds are authentically historical? Who did he think himself to be? Did he rise from the dead and ascend into heaven?
RELIGST 12: Introduction to Hinduism
Historical study from earliest period to the present, including religious poetry, narrative, performance, concepts of self and liberation, yoga, ritual, God and gods, views of religion through history, region, class, caste, and gender.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
RELIGST 124: Sufi Islam
The complex of Islamic intellectual and social perspectives subsumed under the term Sufism. Sufi mystical philosophies and historical and social evolution. Major examples include: Qushayrî, Râbi'a, Junayd, Hallâj, Sulamî, Ibn al-'Arabî, Rûmî, Nizâm al-Dîn Awliyâ'. Social and political roles of Sufi saints and communities. Readings include original prose and poetry in translation, secondary discussions, and ethnography.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
RELIGST 126: Protestant Reformation
16th-century evangelical reformers (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli) and reform movements (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist) in their medieval context.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
RELIGST 129: Modern Jewish Thought
From the early Enlightenment to the present. Universalism, subjectivity, and redemption within Judaism's encounter with modernity as reflected on by Jewish intellectuals within the Western philosophical tradition; how modern Jewish intellectuals have shaped and been shaped by current debates. Challenges to religious identity by secularism, capitalism, and the nation state. Messianism, mysticism, reactionary romanticism, critical theory, post-Holocaust philosophy, spirituality, and feminism. Thinkers include Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Buber, Strauss, the Frankfurt school, Benjamin, Arendt, and Levinas.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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