printer friendly pageRELIGST 226: Philosophy and Kabbalah in Jewish Society: Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (RELIGST 326)
Characteristics of religious philosophy from Saadia Gaon to Maimonides, Jewish opposition to and support of philosophy in the medieval Christian and Muslim world, texts from the early development of Kabbalah, the relationship between philosophy and Kabbalah, and conflicting views of Kabbalah from the 16th through 18th centuries.
RELIGST 227: The Qur'an (RELIGST 327)
Early history, themes, structure, chronology, and premodern interpretation. Relative chronology of passages.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 238: Christian Neo-Platonism, East and West (RELIGST 338)
Christianity's shift to neo-Platonic Greek philosophical categories and its significance for contemporary spirituality. Readings from Plotinus, Proclus, Greek fathers such as Pseudo-Dionysus, and from Ambrose and Augustine.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 239: Luther and the Reform of Western Christianity (RELIGST 339)
Luther's theology, ethics, biblical interpretation, and social reforms and their significance for the remaking of Western Christianity. Readings include Luther's own writings and secondary sources about Luther and his world.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 245: Religion, Reason, and Romanticism
The late 18th-century European cultural shift from rationalist to romantic modes of thought and sensibility. Debates about religion as catalysts for the new
Zeitgeist. Readings include: the Jewish metaphysician, Mendelssohn; the dramatist, Lessing; the philosopher of language and history, Herder; the critical idealist, Kant; and the transcendental idealist, Fichte.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 248: Chinese Buddhism in World Historical Perspective (RELIGST 348)
Shared cosmologies, trade routes, and political systems. Prerequisite: background in Chinese or Japanese.
RELIGST 250: Classics of Indian Buddhism
Texts in English translation includING discourses (sutras), philosophical treatises, commentaries, didactic epistles, hymns, biographies, and narratives.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 251: Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts (RELIGST 351)
(Graduate students register for 351.) Introduction to Buddhist literature through reading original texts in Sanskrit. Prerequisite: Sanskrit.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 25 units total)
RELIGST 253: Mountains, Buddhist Practice, and Religious Studies (RELIGST 353)
The notion of the sacred mountain. Readings from ethnographic and theoretical works, and primary sources.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 254: Recent Contributions to Buddhist Studies
May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
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