Undergraduate Religious Studies
Undergraduate Religious Studies
2008 Spring Term
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CRITICAL ISSUES IN MODERN RELIGION
RELIGST 201
An introduction to selected critical issues relating to contemporary academic concerns. A variety of religion to modern culture and intellectual positions will be analyzed and discussed.
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).
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.
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
RELIGST 353
A study of the function and forms of religious groups in primitive and contemporary societies; a theoretical examination of religion as a basic social institution. (Offered jointly with sociology).
THE HOLOCAUST: NAZI GERMANY AND THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS
RELIGST 388
This course will examine the origins, implementation, and legacies of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. It is intended to help students gain an appreciation of the importance of the Holocaust to the Jewish experience, while understanding that other groups also were victimized. (Offered jointly with Sociology).
EXCHANGE STUDY
RELIGST 497
Variable topics.