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RELC 3835 - Christian Art
Among other topics, this course explores the derogation of Jews as ‘the people without art’; the theological implications of Augustine’s renumbering of the commandments; the Protestant backlash against Catholic art in the Counter-Reformation; and the controversy surrounding the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
Credits: 3
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RELC 3890 - Christianity in Africa
Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELA 389. Prerequisite: a course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELC 3910 - Women and the Bible
Surveys passages in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that focus specifically on women or use feminine imagery. Considers various readings of these passages, including traditional Jewish and Christian, historical-critical, and feminist interpretations. Cross-listed as RELJ 391. Prerequisite: Any religious studies course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELC 4044 - Religion and the American Courts
What is the nature of religion and its role in American society? This seminar will explore the limits of spiritual convictions in a liberal democracy which guarantees religious freedom. This course will examine: 1) the First Amendment; 2) legal methodology; and 3) the contemporary debate over whether citizens and public officials have a duty to refrain from making political and legal decisions on the basis of their religious beliefs.
Credits: 3
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RELC 4559 - New Course in Christianity
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Christianity.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELC 4610 - Sex and Morality
A theological overview of Jewish and Christian reflection on proper sexual conduct in the United States, with specific emphasis on pre-marital sex, adoption, abortion, gay marriage, and the teaching of sex education in public schools.
Credits: 3
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RELG 1000 - First-Year Seminar
Introduces a specific topic, research and study techniques, and use of the library.
Credits: 3
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RELG 1005 - World Religions
This course is a comparative study of the world’s enduring religious traditions and their cultural expressions in architecture, art, and music. Among others, the course will examine Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, and their expression in world culture.
Credits: 3
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RELG 1010 - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
Studies the major religious traditions of the Western world; Judaism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam.
Credits: 3
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RELG 1040 - Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions
Introduces various aspects of the religious traditions of India, China, and Japan.
Credits: 3
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RELG 1559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELG 2140 - Archaic Cult and Myth
Surveys scientific and popular interpretations of prehistoric, ancient, and traditional religions.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2150 - Religion in American Life and Thought to 1865
Topics include the influence of Puritanism, the character of American religious freedom, and the interaction between religion and social reform.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2160 - Religion in American Life and Thought from 1865 to the Present
Includes American religious pluralism, religious responses to social issues, and the character of contemporary American religious life.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2190 - Religion and Modern Fiction
Studies religious meanings in modern literature, emphasizing faith and doubt, evil and absurdity, and wholeness and transcendence in both secular fiction and fiction written from traditional religious perspectives.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2245 - Global Christainity
The story of Christianity’s emergence in the Middle East and its migration into Europe and North America is just one aspect of Christian history, which also has a long and rich history in Africa, Asia and other parts of the global South. This course looks at the shape Christianity is taking in non-Western parts of world and how this growth impacts Christianity in the west.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2255 - Religion and Film
This course will introduce students to the relationship between religion and film. We will watch several films in class and, after learning the basics of film analysis, we will be able to perceive and interpret how films portray religions, religious peoples, and religious categories, and even to consider what religion and film have in common as experiences. Viewing of the films will be supplemented by short lectures and class discussion.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2260 - Religion, Race, and Relationship in Film
This course explores themes of religion, race, gender, and relationship to the religious or racial ‘other’ in films from the silent era to the present. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these images can be interpreted. The films selected all ask “How should we treat one another?”
Credits: 3
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RELG 2285 - Religion, Politics, Society
Politics and religion are links to the exploration to culture, history, and current events. This course seeks to understand what is meant by religion and the multiple ways in which it is politically important by examining the world views of various religious traditions and their political implications.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2290 - Business Ethics
Studies contemporary issues in business from a moral perspective, including philosophical and religious, as well as traditional and contemporary, views of business. Topics include international business, whistleblowing, discrimination, the environment, and marketing.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2300 - Religious Ethics and Moral Problems
Examines several contemporary moral problems from the perspective of ethical thought in the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish traditions.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2370 - Religion After Jefferson
This course explores the history of the idea of “religion” as a distinct concept, and introduces students to a crucial topic of modern public life and helps them prepare to grapple with this problem from a global perspective. A Jefferson Public Citizens course.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2380 - Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age
Examines religious skepticism in the modern world.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2390 - Theism and Humanism
Studies contemporary understandings of religious faith in response to the challenge of humanism.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2440 - Human Nature and Its Possibilities
Examines psychological, literary, philosophical, and theological perspectives on human existence with a view to seeing what possibilities are contained in the linguistic, theoretical, practical, poetic, and ecstatic capacities of human beings.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2455 - Christian America?
This course aims to describe the historical development of religious diversity in the United States, and to grapple with its social, political, legal, cultural, and spiritual implications. We will chart the trends that led this nation, once characterized as a triple melting pot of Protestant-Catholic-Jew, to become, by the late twentieth century, one of the most religiously diverse societies in the history of the world.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2475 - God in Abrahamic Traditions
An introduction to the personality of God as portrayed in the sacred literatures, histories, and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (For the religious studies major, or minor, this counts as either RELC, RELI or RELJ)
Credits: 3
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RELG 2559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELG 2605 - Religion and Violence
Our aim in this course is to analyze the ‘religious’ logic of certain acts of violence and terror that have come to dominate popular political discussions. We begin the course by surveying the positions that emphasize the ‘religious’ nature of these actions. We then explore the ambiguous nature of the terms ‘terrorism’ and ‘religion’ in general and through example. Finally we ask about the value of characterizing such violence as religious.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2630 - Business, Ethics, and Society
A study of the philosophical and religious frameworks for interpreting and evaluating human activity in the marketplace. This includes major theoretical perspectives, contemporary issues within the marketplace, and corporate ethics.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2650 - Theology, Ethics, and Medicine
Analyzes various moral problems in science, medicine, and health care (e.g., abortion and euthanasia) as viewed by religious and philosophical traditions.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2700 - Festivals of the Americas
Readings will include contemporary ethnographies of religious festivals in the Caribbean ans South, Central, and North America, and increase their knowledge of the concepts of sacred time and space, ritual theory, and the relationships between religious celebration and changing accounts of ethnicity.
Credits: 3
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RELG 2800 - African American Religious History
This course will explore African American religious traditions in their modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current scholarship, worship and praxis. It will examine the religious life and religious institutions of African Americans from their African antecedents to contemporary figures and movements in the US.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3050 - Religions of Western Antiquity
Studies Greco-Roman religions and religious philosophies of the Hellenistic period, including official cults, mystery religions, gnosticism, astrology, stoicism; emphasizes religious syncretism and interactions with Judaism and Christianity.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3051 - Religion and Society
Critical appraisal of classical and contemporary approaches to the sociological study of religion and society.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3053 - Religion and Psychology
Major religious concepts studied from the perspective of various theories of psychology, including the psychoanalytic tradition and social psychology.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3057 - Existentialism: Its Literary, Philosophical and Religious Expressions
Studies Existentialist thought, its Hebraic-Christian sources, and 19th and 20th century representatives of the movement (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Buber, and Tillich).
Credits: 3
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RELG 3080 - Israeli Fiction in Translation
Israeli Fiction in Translation
Credits: 3
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RELG 3200 - Martin, Malcolm, and America
An analysis of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Credits: 3
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RELG 3210 - Major Themes in American Religious History
Examines a major religious movement or tradition in American history.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3360 - Religions in the New World
A historical examination of the effects of European colonization and the transatlantic slave trade upon the religious practices of indigenous peoples, African captives, creole residents and European settlers in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3370 - God Since Cinema
A survey of films about God and the effect these films (as opposed to books or paintings) have had on the Western understanding of God.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3400 - Women and Religion
Introduces the images of women in the major religious traditions, the past and present roles of women in these traditions, and women’s accounts of their own religious experiences.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3444 - Religious Conflict and Resolution Among the Abrahamic Religions
What are the religions of Abraham? Are they bound for peace or conflict? This course introduces students to the scriptural sources and medieval to modern practices of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism including key historical narratives from the Qur’an, and the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. An examination of the role these scriptures play in people’s lives is followed by focusing on the ‘hot spots’ of inter-Abrahamic conflict today.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3470 - Christianity and Science
Christian Europe gave rise to modern science, yet Christianity and science have long appeared mutual enemies. Does science undermine religious belief? Can human life and striving really be explained in terms of physics and chemistry? In this course we explore the encounter between two powerful cultural forces and study the intellectual struggle to anchor God in the modern world.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELG 3600 - Religion and Modern Theatre
Examines the works of several playwrights, some of whom dramatize explicitly religious themes or subjects, and others who are predominantly concerned with secular situations and contexts that imply religious questions and issues.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3640 - Religion, God, and Evil
Studies the ‘problem of evil,’ using philosophical, literary, and various religious sources.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3650 - Systems of Theological Ethics
Examines one or more contemporary systems of Christian ethics, alternating among such figures as Reinhold Niebuhr, C. S. Lewis, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Maritain.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3660 - Issues in Theological Ethics
Studies a moral problem or set of related problems (e.g., human experimentation, special moral relations, or warfare) in the context of recent work in theological ethics.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3721 - Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Credits: 3
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RELG 3750 - Taoism and Confucianism
Taoism and Confucianism
Credits: 3
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RELG 3795 - Theology, Spirituality and Ethics of Sustainability
Primarily through the readings of theologians from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, this course explores theological, spiritual and ethical perspectives on the environmental issues that are becoming increasingly important across the globe.
Credits: 3
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RELG 3860 - Human Bodies and Parts as Properties
An analysis and assessment of theological, philosophical, and legal interpretations of rights holders and rights held in living and dead human bodies and their parts, in the context of organ and tissue transplantation, assisted reproduction, and research. Prerequisite: RELG 265
Credits: 3
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RELG 3950 - Evil in Modernity: Banal or Demonic
Investigates how modern thinkers have understood the character of evil and the challenge it poses to human existence. Evaluates the proposals made in response to that challenge. Prerequisite: Any course in religious studies.
Credits: 3
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RELG 4023 - Bioethics Internship Seminar
The course enables students to spend time in medical settings as ‘participant-observers,’ in order to gain first-hand experience of the subject matter that is the focus of the theory, teaching, and practice of bioethics. Prerequisites: Bioethcis Major/Minor
Credits: 3
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RELG 4150 - Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Trials
Credits: 3
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RELG 4220 - American Religious Autobiography
Multidisciplinary examination of religious self-perception in relation to the dominant values of American life. Readings represent a variety of spiritual traditions and autobiographical forms.
Credits: 3
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RELG 4450 - Visions of the Apcalypse
The course will introduce apocalypticism in Western religious traditions, but will soon focus on the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explorations will take us from slave revolts to UFO cults to Dr. Strangelove, from Edward Bellamy to genetic engineering, from the space program to Left Behind, and from the Great Disappointment of the 1840s and the Ghost Dance of 1890 to the New Age of the present.
Credits: 3
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RELG 4500 - Majors Seminar
Introduces the study of religion as an interdisciplinary subject, utilizing methods in history of religions, theology, sociology, depth psychology, and literary criticism. The seminars are thematic and topics will vary according to the design of the instructor Limited to twenty religious studies majors.
Credits: 3
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RELG 4559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELG 4810 - Poetry and Theology
This seminar seeks to develop a close reading of major religious poetry by two major religious poets
Credits: 3
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RELH 1559 - New Course in Hinduism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hinduism
Credits: 3
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RELH 2090 - Hinduism
Surveys the Hindu religious heritage from pre-history to the 17th century; includes the Jain and Sikh protestant movements.
Credits: 3
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RELH 2110 - Popular Hinduism
Introduces Hinduism through the examination of the religious lives, practices, and experiences of ordinary Hindus in the modern world.
Credits: 3
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RELH 2559 - New Course in Hinduism
his course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hinduism
Credits: 3
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RELH 3140 - The Jain Tradition
Examines Jain history, belief, and practice. Prerequisite: RELG 104, RELH 209, 211, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELH 3440 - Gandhi to Terrorism: Religion and Violence in Modern India
The purpose of this course is to study the phenomenon of religious violence in one geographic and cultural context. We will examine the roles of religion and violence in Indian political life from the British period until contemporary times, and through the Indian example, we will explore current questions and problems regarding the relationship between religion and politics. Prerequisite: Some knowledge of India/South Asia recommended.
Credits: 3
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RELH 3559 - New Course in Hinduism
his course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hinduism
Credits: 3
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RELH 3710 - Hindu Traditions of Devotion
Examines the history of Hindu devotionalism in three distinct geographical and cultural regions of India, focusing on the rise of vernacular literature and local traditions of worship. Prerequisite: Any course in Asian religions or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELH 3740 - Hinduism Through its Narrative Literatures
Examines a major genre of Hindu religious narrative. Genre varies but may include the epics; the mythology of the Puranas; the ‘didactic’ Kathasaritsagara and Pancatantra; the hagiographies of the great Hindu saints; and the modern novel. Prerequisite: RELG 104, RELH 209, RELH 211, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELH 4559 - New Course in Hinduism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hinduism
Credits: 3
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RELI 1559 - New Course in Islam
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Credits: 3
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RELI 2070 - Classical Islam
Studies the Irano-Semitic background, Arabia, Muhammad and the Qur’an, the Hadith, law and theology, duties and devotional practices, sectarian developments, and Sufism.
Credits: 3
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RELI 2080 - Islam in the Modern Age
Studies the 19th and 20th centuries in the Arab world, Turkey, and the Sub-Continent of India, emphasizing reform movements, secularization, and social and cultural change.
Credits: 3
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RELI 2559 - New Course in Islam
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Credits: 3
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RELI 3110 - Muhammad and the Qur’an
Systematic reading of the Qur’an in English, with an examination of the prophet’s life and work. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELI 3120 - Sufism
Investigates some major figures, themes, and schools of Islamic mysticism. Prerequisite: RELI 207 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELI 3559 - New Course in Islam
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Credits: 3
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RELI 3670 - Religion and Politics in Islam
Historical and topical survey of the roots and genesis of the religion, and political conceptions operating in the Islamic world today.
Credits: 3
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RELI 3900 - Islam in Africa
Historical and topical introduction to Islam in Africa. Cross-listed as RELA 390. Prerequisite: RELA 275, RELI 207, RELI 208, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELI 4559 - New Course in Islam
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam
Credits: 3
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RELJ 1210 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Studies the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel in the light of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Emphasizes methods of contemporary biblical criticism. Cross listed as RELC 121.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 1410 - Elementary Classical Hebrew I
Studies the essentials of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Includes readings of narrative portions of the Hebrew Bible.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 1420 - Elementary Classical Hebrew II
Studies the essentials of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Includes readings of narrative portions of the Hebrew Bible. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 1410 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 1559 - New Course in Judaism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Judaism
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2030 - The Judaic Tradition
Introduces the world view and way of life of classical Rabbinic Judaism.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2040 - American Judaism
Description and explanation of the diverse forms of Jewish religious life in America.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2056 - Classical Sources in the Jewish Tradition
Classical Sources in the Jewish Tradition/Judaism in Antiquity
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2061 - Judaism, Modernity, and Secularization
This course attempts to develop the history and intellectual underpinnings of the Jewish experience of modernity and secularization. It will explore the variety of Jewish responses and adjustments to the modern world and their implications for present day Judaism in its many forms.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2230 - Jewish Spiritual Journeys
Jewish Spiritual Journeys
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2240 - Jewish Ritual
Jewish Ritual
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2300 - Introduction to Israeli Literature in Translation
This course explores Israeli culture and society through the lens of its literature. Beginning with the revival of modern Hebrew and following the formative events of the Israeli experience, we will study a range of fictional works (and poetry) that represent the diverse voices of Israeli self-expression. Readings include S.Y. Agnon, Aharon Appelfeld, Yoel Hoffmann, Etgar Keret, A.B. Yehoshua, Yehudit Hendel, and others.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2350 - Jewish Ethics
Jewish Ethics
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2410 - Intermediate Classical Hebrew I
Readings in the prose narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 1420 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2420 - Intermediate Classical Hebrew II
Readings in the prose narratives and poetry of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 2410 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2521 - Special Topics in Judaism
Special Topics In Judaism.
Credits: 3
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RELJ 2559 - New Course in Judaism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Judaisim.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELJ 3030 - Historical Jesus
Historical Jesus
Credits: 3
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RELJ 3052 - Responses to the Holocaust
Responses to the Holocaust
Credits: 3
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