RELIGST 346: Constructing Race and Religion in America (CSRE 246, HISTORY 256G, HISTORY 356G, RELIGST 246)
This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race, and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? How have ideas about religion and race contributed to notions of what it means to be "American"? We will look at primary and secondary sources, and at the historical development of ideas and practices over time.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Lum, K. (PI)
RELIGST 347: Chinese Buddhist Texts
Chinese Buddhist texts from the Han Dynasty onwards, including sutra translations, prefaces, colophons, story collections and biographies. Prerequisite: reading competence in Chinese.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 25 units total)
Instructors:
Kieschnick, J. (PI)
RELIGST 347B: Readings in Chinese Religious Texts: The Lingbao Scriptures (RELIGST 247B)
A survey of the original Lingbao scriptures. Composed in the late-4th / early 5th century, these texts radically revised Daoist practice, incorporated elements of Buddhist thought and practice, and created liturgies that are still used in Daoist communities today. (Reading knowledge of Literary Chinese ¿¿ required).
Last offered: Autumn 2010
RELIGST 348: Chinese Buddhism in World Historical Perspective (RELIGST 248)
Shared cosmologies, trade routes, and political systems. Prerequisite: background in Chinese or Japanese.
Last offered: Spring 2009
RELIGST 348A: Chinese Buddhism Beyond the Great Wall (RELIGST 248A)
The thought, practice, and cultural resonance of the sorts of originally Chinese Buddhism that flourished to the north and northwest of China proper during the two to three centuries following the fall of the Tang - i.e., under the Khitan Liao (907-1125) and the Tangut Xixia (1032-1227) dynasties - with special emphasis on the later fortunes of the Huayan, Chan, and Mijiao (Esoteric) traditions. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Chinese.
Last offered: Spring 2010
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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
RELIGST 350: Modern Western Religious Thought Proseminar
Selected topics in recent and contemporary religious thought. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 25 units total)
Instructors:
Hartmann, J. (PI)
RELIGST 352A: The Story of a Buddhist Megascripture: Readings in the Avatamsaka (RELIGST 252A)
In this course we will explore the massive Mahayana Buddhist scriptural compilation known as the Avatamsaka Sutra (more correctly: Buddhavatamsaka Sutra). We will investigate the development of the text in India, study its contents, and consider its later reception in East Asia. Since much of the course will be devoted to reading sections of the Buddhavatamsaka, a reading knowledge of Chinese is required.
Last offered: Spring 2014
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
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