Undergraduate Religious Studies
Undergraduate Religious Studies
2011 Spring Term
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INTRODUCTION TO EASTERN RELIGIONS
RELIGST 211
An introduction to the major religious traditions in the cultural areas of South, Southeast, and East Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto.
INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN RELIGIONS
RELIGST 212
An introduction to the major religious traditions that have shaped Near Eastern and Western culture; especially Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (GH)
RELIGST 252
This course will survey the Bible and some other related Near Eastern literature, focusing on the development of genres, motifs, and other literary forms that have influenced the form and content of Western literature, including the parable, the proverb, the loss of Eden, exile and return, origin stories, and hero stories. (Offered jointly with English).
CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND PRACTICE
RELIGST 304
This course will explore - thematically rather than cronologically - major trends in contemporary Islamic thought and practice through a study of key thinkers and a close reading of their works. Such trends include modernism, reformism, fundamentalism, nationalism, centrism, liberalism and feminism.
WOMEN AND RELIGION
RELIGST 330
This course will trace changing conceptions of gender roles and the functions of women in various religious traditions. Feminine and masculine images of divinity will be compared and recent scholarship in feminist theology on questions such as the nature of divinity, immortality, and religious devotion will be examined.
SPECIAL STUDIES
RELIGST 496
Variable topics. Group activity. Not offered regularly in the curriculum but offered on topics selected on the basis of timeliness, need, and interest, and generally in the format of regularly scheduled Catalog offerings. Repeatable
INDEPENDENT STUDY
RELIGST 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable