printer friendly pageRELIGST 277: The Later Heidegger: Art, Poetry, Language (PHIL 234B, RELIGST 377)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 278: Heidegger: Confronting the Ultimate (RELIGST 378)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 279A: Heidegger on human being and God (RELIGST 379A)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 280: Schleiermacher: Reconstructing Religion (RELIGST 380)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
RELIGST 282: King Solomon and the Search for Wisdom (RELIGST 382)
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 293X: Church, State, & Schools: Issues in Education & Religion (EDUC 293X)
This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture, both in the United States and as it manifests in American culture transnationally.
RELIGST 300: Theory in the Study of Religion
This course explores how religious belief, ritual, and tradition, interact with, embed, or respond to aspects of social reality or human nature, such as economics, institutions, law, art, values, and psychology. The course examines a number of approaches to the study of religion, including sociological and anthropological ones. The course is intended for Religious Studies MA students and graduate students from other departments.
RELIGST 301A: Gender in Classical Islamic Law (RELIGST 201A)
The course examines classical Islamic society and law. It covers historical development, the unity and diversity of Muslim legal traditions, and the relationship between laws and values. Constructions of gender in law are examined through rituals, marriage, divorce, birth control, child custody, and sexuality.
RELIGST 302: Islamic Studies Proseminar
Research methods and materials for the study of Islam. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 5 units total)
RELIGST 303: Myth, Place, and Ritual in the Study of Religion (RELIGST 203)
Sources include: ethnographic texts and theoretical writings; the approaches of Charles Long, Jonathan Z. Smith, Victor Turner, Michael D. Jackson, and Wendy Doniger; and lived experiences as recounted in Judith Sherman's
Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry, Jackson's
At Home in the World, Marie Cardinal's
The Words to Say It, and John Phillip Santos¿
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.
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