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RELIGST 313X: The Education of American Jews (EDUC 313, JEWISHST 393X)

This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how American Jews negotiate the desire to retain a unique ethnic sensibility without excluding themselves from American culture more broadly. Students will examine the various ways in which people debate, deliberate, and determine what it means to be an "American Jew". This includes an investigation of how American Jewish relationships to formal and informal educational encounters through school, popular culture, religious ritual, and politics.
Last offered: Autumn 2013

RELIGST 314: Seminar in Buddhist Historiography

The focus of this course is on approaches to the past from within Buddhist traditions rather than modern academic writing on Buddhist history. We will briefly examine research on religious conceptions of the past in other religions before turning to the full range of Buddhist historiography, including writings from India, Ceylon, China, Tibet and Japan. The first half of the class will be dedicated to reading and discussing scholarship as well as some primary sources in translation. In the second half of the course, students will develop projects based on their interests, culminating in presentations and a research paper.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5

RELIGST 315: Third Bhavanakrama & the Writings of Héshang Moheyan: Scripture in Buddhist Scholastic Polemics

Readings in the original languages (Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese) of materials from the debates of late 8th Century Tibet (so-called debate at Bsam-yas). The course focuses on the use of scriptural quotations in those passages where the arguments of Kamalasila, the leading Indian representative at the debates, best map on to the arguments of his Chinese rival, Héshang Moheyan.
Last offered: Spring 2013

RELIGST 315A: Chinese Buddhism

This course provides an overview of the major themes and historical developments in 2000 years of Buddhist history in China, from its early transmission from India to contemporary developments in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Themes include monasticism, doctrine, popular devotion, state policy and the encounter with modernity.
Last offered: Spring 2014

RELIGST 317: Japanese Studies of Religion in China (RELIGST 217)

(Graduate students register for 317.) Readings in Japanese secondary sources on Chinese religions.
Last offered: Autumn 2007

RELIGST 320: Religion and Literature

grad seminar in religion and literature-description to follow.
Last offered: Spring 2015

RELIGST 321: The Talmud (RELIGST 221)

Strategies of interpretation, debate, and law making. Historical contexts. Prerequisite: Hebrew.
Last offered: Spring 2008

RELIGST 321B: What is Talmud? (RELIGST 221B)

In what sense can Talmud be studied as literature? Which voices can be identified? Concepts of author, editor, or redactor. The basic textual units of Talmud: sugya, chapter, and tractate. The sugya as literary genre. The aesthetic of talmudic dialectics.nnPrerequisite: reading Hebrew with some understanding of biblical Hebrew
Last offered: Spring 2013

RELIGST 321D: Readings in Syriac Literature (JEWISHST 221D, JEWISHST 321D, RELIGST 221D)

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the works of Syriac speaking Christians in antiquity and beyond. This course offers an introduction to the Syriac language, including its script, vocabulary and grammar, and a chance to read from a selection of foundational Syriac Christian texts.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5
Instructors: Gross, S. (PI)

RELIGST 322B: Sufism Seminar (RELIGST 222B)

Sufism through original texts and specialized scholarship. Prerequisite: ability to read at least one major language of Islamic religious literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu).
Last offered: Autumn 2009
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