printer friendly pageRELIGST 802: TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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| 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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Instructors:
Bashir, S. (PI)
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Bielefeldt, C. (PI)
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Blair, H. (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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Gregg, R. (PI)
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Harrison, P. (PI)
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Hess, L. (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 82: Approaches to the Study of Religion: Christianity
Historical and contemporary Christianity from four viewpoints: ritual and prayer; sacred texts and creeds; ethics and life; and community governance.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 84: Mystics, Pilgrims, Monks, and Scholars: Religious Devotion in Medieval Christianity
The variety and vitality of religious expression in medieval Christian Europe. How Christians sought God through mystical encounter, the structure of monastic life, visits to shrines, devotion to the saints, and the study of scripture and ancient Christian wisdom. Readings focus on primary texts.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 108: The Mahabharata
How the Sanskrit epic and its versions in other languages are interwoven with the history of Hinduism and S. Asian arts, philosophy, and social and political thought. How the text is interpreted through performance, including village ritual dramas, classical dance, and mass market television.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 111: Religions of Mexico
Key issues in the study of religion and religions of Mexico. Sacred cities of the Aztec and Maya, the encounter between Christianity and indigenous religions and contemporary religious performances in Mexico and among Mexican Americans. Theoretical frames of Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and Victor Turner. Emphasis is on the recently recovered indigenous codex known as the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan #2.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 112: Handmaids and Harlots: Biblical Women in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Miraculous births, wandering in the wilderness, encounters with angels: stories of Hagar, Sarah, Hannah, and Mary, and how their tales are read and re-told by later Jews and Christians. Sources include the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Jewish and Christian commentary, and religious iconography.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
RELIGST 115: Hope and Prophetic Politics: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The biblically informed prophetic tradition that has long shaped the history of American religious and political thought and that has often clashed with an impulse towards empire and the desire to accumulate power. Focus is on Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr., 20th-century religious intellectuals whose lives and works draw on this tradition to raise and address questions basic to the role of religion in public life.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 127A: Kabbalah: The Mystical Teachings of Judaism
Jewish mystical literature, especially the Zohar. Mystical concepts of the divine: masculine and feminine aspects of the Godhead, divine sonship; eroticism and sexuality; cosmogony and apocalypse; mystical secrecy and popularization, including the contemporary Kabbalah movement in the U.S. and figures such as Madonna and Roseanne. Guest lectures by scholars of Kabbalah including Moshe Idel from Jerusalem and Daniel Matt, the American translator of the Zohar.
RELIGST 132: Jesus the Christ
How did Jesus of Nazareth, who never claimed to be Christ or divine, become the son of God after his death? Sources include the history of first-century Judaism and Christianity.
RELIGST 133: Inventing Christianity in Late Antiquity
The transformation of an apocalyptic sect into an imperial religion from 200 to 600 C.E. Shifts in structures of authority, worship, and belief mapped against shifts in politics, economics and religion in the larger Roman empire. Cultural visions of this history including Edward Gibbon's
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Dan Brown's conspiracy theory in
The Da Vinci Code, and Elaine Pagels'
The Secret Gospel of Thomas.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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