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RELIGST 322C: Debauchery and asceticism (RELIGST 222C)

Arabic texts written by and about early Muslim figures famous either for their limitless self-indulgence or their rigorous self-denial. Language and style of these texts, their implied or explicit dialogue with religious values, and their possible relation to each other. Questions of representation, self-representation, and biographical fallacy. Intended for students with reading knowledge of Arabic.

RELIGST 326: Philosophy and Kabbalah in Jewish Society: Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (RELIGST 226)

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 327: The Qur'an (RELIGST 227)

Early history, themes, structure, chronology, and premodern interpretation. Relative chronology of passages.

RELIGST 328S: The Study of the Midrash

Two-week block seminar; four sessions. Talmudic philology; development and transmission of the Talmudic text and manuscripts. Relationship between Midrash and Mishnah and between Mishnah and Tosefta; development of talmudic sugiot; relationship between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud.

RELIGST 338: Christian Neo-Platonism, East and West (RELIGST 238)

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.

RELIGST 339: Luther and the Reform of Western Christianity (RELIGST 239)

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.

RELIGST 348: Chinese Buddhism in World Historical Perspective (RELIGST 248)

Shared cosmologies, trade routes, and political systems. Prerequisite: background in Chinese or Japanese.

RELIGST 349: Meditation and Mythology in Chinese Buddhism

Readings in Chinese texts and English scholarly literature on issues such as specific techniques and hagiographical imagery in Chinese Buddhist traditions of self-cultivation. Prerequisite: background in Chinese or Japanese.

RELIGST 351: Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts (RELIGST 251)

(Graduate students register for 351.) Introduction to Buddhist literature through reading original texts in Sanskrit. Prerequisite: Sanskrit.
| Repeatable 5 times (up to 25 units total)

RELIGST 353: Mountains, Buddhist Practice, and Religious Studies (RELIGST 253)

The notion of the sacred mountain. Readings from ethnographic and theoretical works, and primary sources.
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