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RELIGST 8N: Francis of Assisi: An Exemplary Saint

Preference to freshmen. The making of a new model of saint at a time of cultural change in the Middle Ages. What Francis as a paradigm of the model self reveals about the ethical and religious imagination, past and present. Texts include Francis' writings and primary documents that chronicle the founding of the Franciscan order.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Gelber, H. (PI)

RELIGST 10N: The Problem of God: Aquinas to the New Atheism

Critical inquiry the meaning and credibility of theistic belief through exemplary classic formulations, modern critics, and contemporary defenders. What has the idea of God meant to serious minds in the past? And in the modern or postmodern world?
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Sockness, B. (PI)

RELIGST 11N: The Meaning of Life: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Religious Perspectives

Raise ultimate questions about life. Yes, the unexamined life is not worth living, but also the unlived life is not worth examining. Students and professor examine their own lives in the light of questions that the readings and lectures bring up: 1. The big picture: Is there such a thing as "the" meaning of life? 2. What is entailed in making personal-existential sense of one's own life? 3. What constitutes the good life, lived in society? 4. How can a university education bear upon the search for a meaningful life? 5. What "methods" for or approches to life can one learn from studies in the humanities? After introductory lectures, the seminar studies a series of artworks, poems, diverse texts, and a film, all of which bear on the questions mentioned above -- works such: 1. Plato's Allegory of the Cave, from "The Republic" 2. Manet's "A bar at the Folies Bergere" 3. A comparison/contrast of Monet's early (1862) "Still Life" and van Gogh's late (1889) "Irises" 4. Lyric poetry T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "East Coker"; Edwin Muir: "The Heart Could Never Speak"; Philip Larkin: "Days" 5. Martin Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" 6. Jean-Paul Sartre's novel "Nausea" 7. Marx's Paris Manuscripts of 1844 8. Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: Sheehan, T. (PI)

RELIGST 14: Exploring Buddhism

From its beginnings to the 21st century. Principal teachings and practices, institutional and social forms, and artistic and iconographical expressions.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP

RELIGST 15N: Travels through the Afterlife (JEWISHST 15N)

Since the beginning of civilization, humans have refused to believe that physical death is the end of life and have sought in various ways to travel into the afterlife. We cannot know what lies beyond death, but there are other kinds of insights to be learned from these otherworldly journeys. The first part of the course will explore the origins and history of the afterlife, going back in time to ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, and medieval Europe to survey these cultures' view of death and what lies beyond it. The second part of the course will investigate what has happened to belief in the afterlife in modern American culture. Our ultimate goal is to confront one of the most difficult aspects of life--our fear of death and oblivion--and also to explore the power of thought and imagination to move beyond the confines of mortality.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Weitzman, S. (PI)

RELIGST 16SI: Religion and Spirituality: LGBTQ Perspectives, (JEWISHST 16SI)

Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people today are finding that mainstream religious institutions do not meet their unique spiritual needs, and they are looking elsewhere to create meaningful spiritual lives. Examine various ways that LGBTQ people are creating and practicing religion and spirituality in the United States. Explore the diversity of American LGBTQ religious and spiritual traditions, both within and beyond the boundaries of traditional religions. Religious and spiritual practices created by and for LGBTQ people and communities, rather than the responses of religious institutions towards the reality of LGBTQ people in their midst. Students will be required to attend an LGBTQ worship service in a tradition of their choice. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of, and appreciation for, the diversity of religious and spiritual traditions within LGBTQ communities.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1-2

RELIGST 20: Beyond Good and Evil: A Thematic Introduction to the Zoroastrian Religion

Introduction to Zoroastrianism through a survey of its defining themes, including an examination of the figure of the prophet Zarathustra, modes of transmitting sacred knowledge, the nature of good and evil, and the importance of ritual practice and practitioners. Discuss how Zoroastrianism views the individual with respect to the body, the life cycle, and issues of gender and sexuality. Also discuss the intersection of "religion" and "ethnicity" that has defined Zoroastrianism from its origins in the 2nd millennium BCE in Central Asia up to the present day.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Vevaina, Y. (PI)

RELIGST 24: Exploring Christianity

The historical development of Christian religious thought and practice from Jesus to the present. Emphasis is on the formation of Christianity's major teachings and their transformation and diverse expressions in the medieval, reformation, and modern periods. Readings focus on primary texts.
Last offered: Winter 2010 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

RELIGST 27: Exploring Islam

Introduction to Islam, its core beliefs and practices, through architecture and the arts. Explore the visual language through which these have been expressed across diverse Muslim societies.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom

RELIGST 37: Introduction to Japanese Religions

Major themes in Japanese religious culture, including gods, religious sites, and specialist and popular practices. Films and readings from literary, ethnographic, and historical sources in translation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Horton, S. (PI)
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