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CLAS 145 Ancient Greek Religion 6 credits
Greek religion played a crucial role in how the ancient Greeks understood the world around them. Mythology and cosmology shaped their understanding of how the world worked, while the ritual of sacrifice formed the basis of the social fabric underpinning all aspects of Greek society. In this course we will learn about Greece’s polytheistic belief system–its gods and religious rites–as well as examining how religion shaped the daily lives of ordinary Greeks, often in surprising ways. We will read the works of ancient authors such as Homer and Hesiod, study the archaeological remains of sacred sites, inscriptions, and curse tablets, as well as engage with experimental archaeology.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 145.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 145.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 202 The Bible as Literature 6 credits
We will approach the Bible not as an archaeological relic, nor as the Word of God, but “as a work of great literary force and authority [that has] shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia and more.” As one place to investigate such shaping, we will sample how the Bible (especially in the “Authorized” or King James version) has drawn British and American poets and prose writers to borrow and deploy its language and respond creatively to its narratives, images, and visions.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2020, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENTS 249 Troubled Waters 6 credits
This course considers the contrast between the ways various religions conceive of water as sacred, and the fact that today’s intersecting environmental crises mean that drought, flooding, sea level rise, and lack of access to clean water and safe sanitation have made the human relationship with water more fraught and complex than ever before. We will look at specific situations of environmental injustice (including Flint, Michigan; Jackson, Mississippi; and the protests at Standing Rock) as well as reading more theoretical and theological takes on water, water justice, and water activism.
- Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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ENTS 249.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 249.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 131 Saints, Sinners, and Philosophers in Late Antiquity 6 credits
In Late Antiquity, Christians and pagans asked with particular intensity: How should I live? What should be my relationship to wealth, family, power, and the world? How are mind and body related in the good life and how can this relationship be controlled and directed? What place had education in the pursuit of the good life? Was the best life to be achieved through material renunciation, psychological transformation, or both? We will ask these and many other questions of a wide array of primary sources written originally in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian while employing the insights of modern scholarship.
Extra time
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 131.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 201 Rome Program: Community and Communication in Medieval Italy, CE 300-1250 6 credits
Through site visits, on-site projects, and readings, this course explores the ways in which people in Italy from late antiquity through the thirteenth century sought to communicate political, religious, and civic messages through combinations of words, images, objects, and structures. What are the “arts of power and piety” and when and why are they used? How do people use spaces and images to educate, to challenge, to honor, to remember, or to forget? How can materials create and transmit meaning and order? How do people combine creativity and tradition to maintain and enrich the worlds they inhabit?
OCS Rome Program
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance to Carleton Rome Program
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HIST 235 Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life 6 credits
This course will explore the history of England from the time of the Tudors through the Industrial Revolution, with a particular focus on the history of poverty and social welfare. We will use new technologies to develop innovative ways to teach and learn about the past. Using a specially designed digital archive, students will construct life stories of paupers, politicians and intellectuals. One day per week, the class will work in a computer lab constructing 3-Dimensional, virtual institutions and designing computer game scenarios that utilize their research to recreate the lived experience of the poor.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 235.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 235.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 236 The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen 6 credits
Author, composer, artist, abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) used words, images and sound to share unique mystical experiences with her community and the broader world. At the same time, developments in Christian-Jewish relations, church-state relations, and the arts made the Holy Roman Empire a dynamic environment for religious, cultural, and political innovation. Through close examination of Hildegard’s works (writings, images, and music) and her contemporaries informed by current scholarship, we will investigate this period of creativity, conflict, and possibility, especially for women. Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections.
Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections
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HIST 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 269 Religion, Race & Caste in Modern India 6 credits
This course will examine the history of religious beliefs, practices, and community, European imperialist and Orientalist ideologies, and the socio-political implications of anti-colonial nationalist movements in India. We will address questions including: How did the European powers justify their imperial undertaking through specific concepts of race, religion, science and technology? How did the imperial experience impact Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, and caste, race, and gender in India? In the post-colonial period we will examine the powerful growth of low-caste and anti-caste social movements and political parties, as well as religious nationalist, pluralist, and secular mass-movements.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 269.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 332 Image Makers and Breakers in the Premodern World 6 credits
What roles do images play in premodern societies? What are these images thought to be and to do? Why, at particular moments, have certain groups attempted to do away with images either completely or in specific settings? How do images create and threaten communities and how is the management of the visual integrated with and shaped by other values, structures, and objectives? This course will examine these and related questions by looking in depth at image-making and veneration and their opponents in a range of case studies (from the medieval west, Byzantium, Muslim lands, and Protestant Europe) and by examining theoretical discussions of images, vision, and cognition from the fourth through sixteenth centuries. This course is discussion intensive and each student will develop a research project on a topic of their own design.
- Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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Previous history course or instructor consent
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HIST 332.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits
Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
Not open to first year students. First year students should register in HIST 267.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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At least one prior course in the history of the Middle East or Central Asia or Islam
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HIST 360.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory 6 credits
Judaism emphasizes transmitting memory from one generation to the next. How have pivotal events and experiences in Jewish history lived on in Jewish collective memory? How do they continue to speak through artistic/literary composition and museum/memorial design? How does Jewish collective memory compare with recorded Jewish history? We will study turning points in Jewish history including the Exodus from Egypt, Jewish expulsion from medieval Spain, the Holocaust, and Israeli independence, as Jews in different times and places have interpreted them with lasting influence. Research includes work with print, film, and other visual/ performative media.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MELA 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 110 Understanding Religion 6 credits
How can we best understand the role of religion in the world today, and how should we interpret the meaning of religious traditions — their texts and practices — in history and culture? This class takes an exciting tour through selected themes and puzzles related to the fascinating and diverse expressions of religion throughout the world. From politics and pop culture, to religious philosophies and spiritual practices, to rituals, scriptures, gender, religious authority, and more, students will explore how these issues emerge in a variety of religions, places, and historical moments in the U.S. and across the globe.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Shana Sippy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.02 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLeighton 304 11:20am-12:20pm
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WOlin 141 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THLeighton 304 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 111 Introduction to the Qu’ran 6 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the Qur’an as the sacred text of Islam. It assumes no background in Islamic Studies nor does it introduce students to the religion of Islam. Rather it familiarizes students with one of the most widely read, dynamic, and influential texts in human history. Topics in the course include the history of the Qur’an and its codex, the Qur’an’s literary style and structure, its references to other religions, its commentarial tradition, and its roles and significance in Muslims’ devotional, social, and political lives.
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RELG 111.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 120 Introduction to Judaism 6 credits
This course provides an overview of Judaism as a religion, exploring its history, modes of expression, and characteristic polarities as they have emerged in various times and places. The contours of classical Jewish life and thought are explored, as well as the crises, challenges, and choices confronting Jews and Judaism today. Our uniting theme will be the question of defining Jewishness: who gets to claim an identity as a Jew, and who has (and has had) the authority to decide who is and is not Jewish?
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 120.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 120.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 120.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 121 Introduction to Christianity 6 credits
This course will trace the history of Christianity from its origins in the villages of Palestine, to its emergence as the official religion of the Roman Empire, and through its evolution and expansion as the world’s largest religion. The course will focus on events, persons, and ideas that have had the greatest impact on the history of Christianity, and examine how this tradition has evolved in different ways in response to different needs, cultures, and tensions–political and otherwise–around the world. This is an introductory course. No familiarity with the Bible, Christianity, or the academic study of religion is presupposed.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 121.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 161 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 161 9:50am-10:50am
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 121.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122 Introduction to Islam 6 credits
This course provides a general introduction to Islam, as a textual and lived tradition. Students will read from the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, engaging them both as historical resources and as dynamic and contested objects that have informed Muslim life in diverse ways throughout the centuries. Through following a thread from scripture, through the interpretive sciences (chiefly law and theology), and into an analysis of Muslim life in the contemporary world, students will explore answers Muslim thinkers have given to major questions of our shared existence, with both fidelity to the texts and flexibility to present demands. Though the focus of this course is not on Islam’s role in current events, through attaining a solid introduction to the tradition–its sociology, its history, and its modes of reasoning–students will attain the knowledge necessary to begin to engage those events with a critical and informed mind.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 130 Native American Religions 6 credits
This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance. While surveying a broad variety of ways that Native American traditions imagine land, community, and the sacred, the course focuses on the local traditions of the Ojibwe and Lakota communities. Materials include traditional beliefs and practices, the history of missions, intertribal new religious movements, and contemporary issues of treaty rights, religious freedom, and the revitalization of language and culture.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 130.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 130.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THBoliou 104 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THLeighton 304 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 130.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 140 Religion and American Culture 6 credits
This course explores the colorful, contested history of religion in American culture. While surveying the main contours of religion in the United States from the colonial era to the present, the course concentrates on a series of historical moments that reveal tensions between a quest for a (Protestant) American consensus and an abiding religious and cultural pluralism.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 140.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 140.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 140.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 152 Religions in Japanese Culture 6 credits
An introduction to the major religious traditions of Japan, from earliest times to the present. Combining thematic and historical approaches, this course will scrutinize both defining characteristics of, and interactions among, various religious traditions, including worship of the kami (local deities), Buddhism, shamanistic practices, Christianity, and new religious movements. We also will discuss issues crucial in the study of religion, such as the relation between religion and violence, gender, modernity, nationalism and war.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 152.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 152.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153 Introduction to Buddhism 6 credits
This course offers a survey of Buddhism from its inception in India some 2500 years ago to the present. We first address fundamental Buddhist ideas and practices, then their elaboration in the Mahayana and tantric movements, which emerged in the first millennium CE in India. We also consider the diffusion of Buddhism throughout Asia and to the West. Attention will be given to both continuity and diversity within Buddhism–to its commonalities and transformations in specific historical and cultural settings. We also will address philosophical, social, political, and ethical problems that are debated among Buddhists and scholars of Buddhism today.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 155 Hinduism: An Introduction 6 credits
Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion (or, as some prefer, “way of life”), with about 1.2 billion followers. It is also one of its oldest, with roots dating back at least 3500 years. “Hinduism,” however, is a loosely defined, even contested term, designating the wide variety of beliefs and practices of the majority of the people of South Asia. This survey course introduces students to this great variety, including social structures (such as the caste system), rituals and scriptures, mythologies and epics, philosophies, life practices, politics, poetry, sex, gender, Bollywood, and—lest we forget—some 330 million gods and goddesses.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 155.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 162 Jesus, the Bible, and Christian Beginnings 6 credits
This course introduces students to the diverse literature and theologies of the New Testament and to the origins and social worlds of early Christianity. Possible topics include: Jesus and his message; Paul and women’s spiritual authority; non-canonical gospels (Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc.); relations between Christians and Jews in the first century; and conflict with empire. Attention is given to the interpretation of New Testament texts in their ancient historical setting, and to the various ways contemporary scholars and groups interpret the New Testament as a source for theological reflection.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 212 Black Religious Thought 6 credits
Although Black thinkers are well-known for discussing religion, the relationship between Blackness and religious thought is ambiguous. Much like religion can be understood in numerous ways, so does “Black” carry several meanings. In this course, we will investigate this ambiguity by unpacking how Black thinkers have expanded upon, reimagined, and rejected various forms of religious practices, beliefs, and institutions. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which these engagements are shaped by thinkers’ identification with, definition of, and politics surrounding Blackness and the African diaspora. The syllabus may include Baldwin, Hurston, Malcolm X, and Cone.
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RELG 212.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 213 Religion, Medicine, and Healing 6 credits
How do religion and medicine approach the healing of disease and distress? Are religion and medicine complementary or do they conflict? Is medicine a more evolved form of religion, shorn of superstition and pseudoscience? This course explores religious and cultural models of health and techniques for achieving it, from ancient Greece to Christian monasteries to modern mindfulness and self-care programs. We will consider ethical quandaries about death, bodily suffering, mental illness, miraculous cures, and individual agency, all the while seeking to avoid simplistic narratives of rationality and irrationality.
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 213.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 213.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 214 Irish Studies In Ireland Program: Sacred Place & Pilgrimage in Ireland 6 credits
Encounters with the sacred on the landscape present a through line of Irish religion: pre-Christian, Christian, and post-Christian. Holy mountains, islands, stones, and wells materialize the sacred and organize the practices of lived religion. Such places are also charged sites of historical memory, colonization, and resistance. Long wellsprings of Irish cultural nationalism, they now capture spiritual imaginations of global seekers of earth-based spirituality. Through readings, field visits, and walking several pilgrimage routes, this course explores narratives and practices of sacred places, engages the blurry boundary between the sacred/secular entailed in pilgrimage, and queries the modern romance with “Celtic Spirituality.”
Pariticipation in Ireland Program
- Summer 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Participation in Ireland Program
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RELG 216 Irish Studies in Ireland Program: Becoming Ireland: Nature, Culture, and Religion in Irish History 3 credits
The past is a strong presence in Ireland. People live with Iron Age tombs and medieval sculptures in their backyards. Modern identities are negotiated through memories of Ireland becoming Celtic, or Christian, or colonized. Understanding modern traditions about these changes requires investigation of how such features of “being Irish” played out long ago. This course explores foundations of modern Ireland though an archaeological tour of key moments in ancient Ireland, with emphasis on changes in sacred landscapes from period to period. The course involves readings, material culture studies, and experience at archaeological sites, including active excavations.
Participation in OCS Ireland Program
- Summer 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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RELG 218 The Body in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 6 credits
Mind and body are often considered separate but not equal; the mind gives commands to the body and the body complies. Exploring the ways the three religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam think about the body will deepen our understanding of the mind-body relationship. We will ask questions such as: How does the body direct the mind? How do religious practices discipline the body and the mind, and how do habits of body and mind change the forms and meanings of these practices? Gender, sexuality, sensuality, and bodily function will be major axes of analysis.
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RELG 218.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 219 Religious Law, Il/Legal Religions 6 credits
The concept of law plays a central role in religion, and the concept of religion plays a central role in law. We often use the word ‘law’ to describe obligatory religious practices. But is that ‘law,’ as compared with state law? Legal systems in the U.S. and Europe make laws that protect religious people, and that protect governments from religion. But what does ‘religion’ mean in a legal context? And how do implicit notions of religious law affect how judges deal with religion? We will explore these questions using sources drawn from contemporary religions and recent legal disputes.
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RELG 219.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 221 Judaism and Gender 6 credits
Questions raised by feminism and gender studies have transformed religious traditions and dramatically changed the way scholars approach the study of religion. In this course, we will consider how reading Jewish tradition with attention to gender opens up new ways of understanding Jewish history, texts, theology and ritual. We will also consider how women and feminism have continually and newly envisioned Jewish life. We will interrogate how Jewish masculinity and femininity have been constituted through, reinforced by, and reclaimed/transformed in Jewish texts, law, prayer, theology, ethics and ritual, in communal as well as domestic contexts.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Shana Sippy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 221.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WGoodsell 03 9:50am-11:00am
- FGoodsell 03 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 222 Trauma, Loss, Memory: Holocaust and Genocide 6 credits
Building on the legacy of Holocaust memory and commemoration, this course considers how different losses touch and, in the process, illuminate each other in their similarities and in their differences. It asks questions about what it means to do justice to these legacies. Students will read works by James Young on monuments and memorials, Marianne Hirsch on postmemory, Michael Rothberg on multidirectional memory, and Svetlana Boym on diasporic intimacy and the possibility of connection after traumatic loss. Students will be encouraged to consider a range of texts and legacies of trauma and loss placing them in conversation with course readings.
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RELG 222.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 227 Liberation Theologies 6 credits
An introduction to liberationist thought, including black theology, Latin American liberation theology, and feminist theology through writings of various contemporary thinkers. Attention will be directed to theories of justice, power, and freedom. We will also examine the social settings out of which these thinkers have emerged, their critiques of “traditional” theologies, and the new vision of Christian life they have developed in recent decades. Previous study of Christianity is recommended but not required.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 227.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 231 From Luther to Kierkegaard 6 credits
Martin Luther and the Reformation have often been understood as crucial factors in the rise of “modernity.” Yet, the Reformation was also a medieval event, and Luther was certainly a product of the late Middle Ages. This class focuses on the theology of the Protestant Reformation, and traces its legacy in the modern world. We read Luther, Calvin, and Anabaptists, exploring debates over politics, church authority, scripture, faith, and salvation. We then trace the appropriation of these ideas by modern thinkers, who draw upon the perceived individualism of the Reformers in their interpretations of religious experience, despair, freedom, and secularization.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLibrary 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 233 Gender and Power in the Catholic Church 6 credits
This course introduces students to the structure, history, and theology of the Catholic Church through the lens of gender and power. Through a combination of readings and conversations with living figures, students will develop the ability to critically and empathetically interpret Catholicism in its various manifestations. Topics include: God, rituals, salvation, the body, women, materiality, sex; the authority of persons, texts, and tradition; conflicts and anxieties involving masculinity, feminist theologies, the ordination of women as priests, the censuring of heretical theologians, and the clerical sex abuse crisis. Conditions permitting, this course will include trips to local Catholic sites.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil 6 credits
Besides humans, animals, and gods, what other beings populate the cosmos? Where do evil, sin, and suffering come from? What can be done about them, and can their existence be justified philosophically? This course explores the problem of evil through an exploration of angels and demons in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman traditions from antiquity to the present, with a focus on late antiquity. Special attention will be given to the bodies of angels and demons: Are they gendered? Where do they dwell? What do they know, and what can they do to humans? This course will also consider modern articulations of systemic, historical injustice.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 234.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 235 Religion and Identity in the Medieval Middle East 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and formation of Islam as a faith in the medieval Middle East (sixth-eleventh centuries) and its impact on social relations and identities in the complex and evolving cultural and religious communities that populated this multifaceted region. Through close reading and discussion of primary sources (in translation) (Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Persian, Greek, and Latin) and scholarship, we will situate the development of Islam in the context of religious and social change in this period and to understand Islam’s role in the transformation of life in the region.
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RELG 235.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤 · William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 236 Black Love: Religious, Political, and Cultural Discussions 6 credits
In 2021, the passing of Black feminist bell hooks led the scholarly journal Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) to publish a special issue on Black love: hooks’ expertise. As is often the case in discussions of Blackness and love, the issue included many allusions to the divine and suggested some ties between race, love, and religion. Drawing inspiration from WSQ, this class will investigate the role religion, spirituality, and belief play in conversations about Blackness, love, and their intersection. The syllabus will include an array of academic essays, personal reflections, and creative works, including those by Lorde, Hartman, and Wonder.
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RELG 236.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 237 Yoga: Religion, History, Practice 6 credits
This class will immerse students in the study of yoga from its first textual representations to its current practice around the world. Transnationally, yoga has been unyoked from religion. But the Sanskrit root yuj means to “add,” “join,” or “unite”—and in Indian philosophy and practice it was: a method of devotion; a way to “yoke” the body/mind; a means to unite with Ultimate Reality; a form of concentration and meditation. We will concentrate on texts dating back thousands of years, from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to the Bhagavad Gita—and popular texts of today. Come prepared to wear loose clothing.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THCowling DANC 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 239 Religion & American Landscape 6 credits
The American landscape is rich in sacred places. The religious imaginations, practices, and beliefs of its diverse inhabitants have shaped that landscape and been shaped by it. This course explores ways of imagining relationships between land, community, and the sacred, the mapping of religious traditions onto American land and cityscapes, and theories of sacred space and spatial practices. Topics include religious place-making practices of Indigenous, Latinx, and African Americans, as well as those of Euro-American communities from Puritans, Mormons, immigrant farmers.
- Winter 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 239.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 239.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom 6 credits
This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the United States. Making reference to the cultural background of Native traditions, and the history of First Amendment law, the course explores landmark court cases in Sacred Lands, Peyotism, free exercise in prisons, and sacralized traditional practices (whaling, fishing, hunting) and critically examines the conceptual framework of “religion” as it has been applied to the practice of Native American traditions. Service projects will integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of particular concern to contemporary native communities.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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RELG 243.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 243.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 266 Modern Islamic Thought 6 credits
Through close reading of primary sources, this course examines how some of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Middle East and South Asia conceptualized God and the ideal God-human relationship to address such pressing questions as: How should religion relate to modern technological and scientific advancements? Can Islam serve as an ideology to counter European colonialism? Can Islam become the basis for the formation of social and political life under a nation-state, or does it demand a transnational political collectivity of its own? What would a modern Islamic economy look like?
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RELG 267 Black Testimony: Art, Literature, Philosophy 6 credits
Throughout Black history, testimony–a discourse in which an individual uses personal stories to convey ideas of broader meaning–has played an essential role in Black religion, politics, and daily life. In this course, we will identify the significance, history, and particularities of Black people’s testimonies, and outline their presence and potential today. Remaining mindful of testimony’s religious dimensions will include particular attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the assigned materials. The syllabus may include testimonial art by Romare Bearden and Kenrick Lamar, writings by Angela Davis and Frederick Douglass, and films by Barry Jenkins.
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RELG 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 270 Philosophy of Religion 6 credits
A study of classic issues in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. Possible topics include: the existence and nature of God; the status and nature of religious experience; the problem of evil; the meaning of faith, belief, and truth; definitions of the self and salvation; and the significance of religious pluralism for claims about truth and God. Readings are drawn from the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and theologians. Prerequisites: Previous work in religion or philosophy will be helpful but is not required.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 270.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 270.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 273 Religious Approaches to Death 6 credits
As the inevitable conclusion of every human existence, our lives are profoundly shaped by death. Consequently, we are all in the process of approaching death—both our own and that of others. This course examines the stunning variety of ways in which humans have approached death and mortality throughout history and across the globe. We will (1) develop a vocabulary of human mortality and death that will allow us to (2) illuminate the structural and functional continuities/discontinuities present across human approaches to death and (3) think critically about mortality and death as we approach them in our own lives.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 273.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 273.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 274 Religion and Bioethics 6 credits
This class examines the ethical principles that often guide decision-making in health care. It focuses on principles espoused by many religious and humanistic traditions, within the context of a modern, pluralistic society. Using plentiful case studies, we consider a number of issues in bioethics, including assisted suicide; maternal-fetal relations; artificial reproduction, including human cloning; the use of human subjects in research; health care justice and reform; triage and allocation of sparse medical resources; and public health issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Spring 2021, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 274.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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RELG 274.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Death and Loyalty 6 credits
This course explores the history of samurai since the emergence of warrior class in medieval times, to the modern developments of samurai ethics as the icon of Japanese national identity. Focusing on its connection with Japanese religion and culture, we will investigate the origins of the purported samurai ideals of loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, and death. In addition to regular class sessions, there will be a weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm), which will enable students to study samurai history in context through gaining first-hand experience in the ritualized practice of kyudo.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 282.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
- WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-9:00pm
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RELG 282.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 285 Islam in America: Race, Religion and Politics 6 credits
This course examines the history of Islam in America from the colonial period to the present. It contextualizes American Islam at the cross section of American religious history and modern Islamic history. While primarily focused on the politics of race and religion in America, the course also explores the influence of comparative theology and religious studies on conceptions of religious diversity; the relationship between race, religion and ideas of progress; the role of Islam in the civil rights movement and in nationalist movements in Muslim-majority societies; and the rise of militant Islam as a matter of global concern.
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RELG 285.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 300 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion 6 credits
What, exactly, is religion and what conditions of modernity have made it urgent to articulate such a question in the first place? Why does religion exert such force in human society and history? Is it an opiate of the masses or an illusion laden with human wish-fulfillment? Is it a social glue? A subjective experience of the sacred? Is it simply a universalized Protestant Christianity in disguise, useful in understanding, and colonizing, the non-Christian world? This seminar, for junior majors and advanced majors from related fields, explores generative theories from anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary studies, and the history of religions.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 300.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 322 Apocalypse How? 6 credits
When will the world end, and how? What’s wrong with the world—morally, politically, naturally—such that people have seen its destruction as necessary or inevitable? Are visions of “The End” a form of sophisticated resistance literature, aimed at oppressive systems of power? Or are they evidence of a disturbed mind disconnected from reality? This seminar takes a deep dive into the contours of apocalyptic thought, which in its most basic form is about unmasking the deceptions of the given world by revealing the secret workings of the universe. We will begin with the earliest apocalypses, found in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, and move into modern religious and “secular” visions of cosmic collapse. Our approach will be historical and comparative, and we will explore topics ranging from doomsday cults to climate catastrophe, visions of heaven to tours of hell, malevolent angels to meddling UFOs, all the while asking how the apocalyptic imagination creates, as one thinker put it, “another world to live in.”
- Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 322.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 329 Modernity and Tradition 6 credits
How do we define traditions if they change over time and are marked by internal conflict? Is there anything stable about a religious tradition—an essence, or a set of practices or beliefs that abide amidst diversity and mark it off from a surrounding culture or religion? How do people live out or re-invent their traditions in the modern world? In this seminar we explore questions about pluralism, identity, authority, and truth, and we examine the creative ways beliefs and practices change in relation to culture. We consider how traditions grapple with difference, especially regarding theology, ethics, law, and gender.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 329.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 329.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 344 Lived Religion in America 6 credits
The practices of popular, or local, or lived religion in American culture often blur the distinction between the sacred and profane and elude religious studies frameworks based on the narrative, theological, or institutional foundations of “official” religion. This course explores American religion primarily through the lens of the practices of lived religion with respect to ritual, the body, the life cycle, the market, leisure, and popular culture. Consideration of a wide range of topics, including ritual healing, Christmas, cremation, and Elvis, will nourish an ongoing discussion about how to make sense of lived religion.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 344.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 344.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 344.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 359 Buddhist Studies India Program: Buddhist Meditation Traditions 7-8 credits
Students will complement their understanding of Buddhist thought and culture through the study and practice of traditional meditation disciplines. This course emphasizes the history, characteristics, and approach of three distinct meditation traditions within Buddhism: Vipassana, Zazen, and Dzogchen. Meditation practice and instruction is led in the morning and evening six days a week by representatives of these traditions who possess a theoretical as well as practical understanding of their discipline. Lectures and discussions led by the program director complement and contextualize the three meditation traditions being studied.
OCP GEP Buddhist Studies India
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Acceptance into the Carleton-Antioch Program required
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RELG 362 Spirit Possession 6 credits
This course considers spirit possession in relation to religion, gender, and agency. Through surveying a number of works on spirit possession–recent and past, theoretical and ethnographic–we will analyze representations of the female subject in particular and arguments about agency that attend these representations. This class will explicitly look at post-colonial accounts of spirit possession and compare them to Euro-American Christian conceptions of personhood. We will consider how these Euro-Christian conceptions might undergird secular-liberal constructions of agency, and contribute to feminist ideas about the proper female subject.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 379 Material Religion 6 credits
While many people associate religions with spirituality and transcendence, religious beliefs and practices have always been mediated through objects, sensory experiences, bodies, and spaces. Broadly speaking these constitute the material dimensions of religion. This course will first introduce students to the major theoretical and methodological issues involved in the study of material religion. Students will then be asked to put what they have learned to practice by developing a research project around a religious thing or some other material aspect of religion.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 379.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399 Senior Research Seminar 6 credits
This seminar will acquaint students with research tools in various fields of religious studies, provide an opportunity to present and discuss research work in progress, hone writing skills, and improve oral presentation techniques.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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Religion 300 and acceptance of proposal for senior integrative exercise and instructor permission.
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 399.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 400 Integrative Exercise 3 credits
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
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SOAN 228 Sociology of Religion 6 credits
From its earliest days, sociology has found religion to be a fascinating and perplexing object of study. A powerful social force, sociologists have argued over religion’s place in the development of collective emotions, social inequality, social order, social movements, political oppression, political revolution, capitalism, and democracy. Other work has focused on secularization and post-secularism, race and religion, religious conversion, and lived religion. How do religion and society interact? How do we think about religion and politics in America? We will explore these themes through the writings of Weber, Durkheim, Berger, Habermas, Nancy Ammerman, James Hunter, and Christian Smith, among others.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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The department recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses number 200 or above
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SOAN 228.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 228.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 228.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 228.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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SOAN 228.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SOAN 228.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 202 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 228.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm