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ASST 130 India Program: Civic Engagement in India 4 credits
This course will facilitate positive, respectful, and reciprocal relationships between Carleton students and people in India. Students will work with community groups that support local visions for an equitable and sustainable society. We will aim to transform ourselves and our place in the world through approaching communities with an informed curiosity, in-depth knowledge about local conditions, and open-minded engagement across various differences. The course will include scholarly readings, instructor and guest lectures, and require student presentations of their work. Students will work together as they engage community groups on topics such as economic development, tourism, gender, sexuality, and political representation.
OCS India Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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ASST 319 Buddhist Studies India Program: History of South Asian Buddhism 8 credits
This course provides students with an introduction to the history of South Asian Buddhism. Using primary and secondary sources and resources available to us in Bodh Gaya, we evaluate competing perspectives on the history of Buddhism and debate significant historical and ethical questions. How did Buddhism relate to other ancient Indian religions? What was the relationship between Buddhism and ancient Indian political, social, and economic structures? How did Buddhism change during its 2000 years in India? What impact did South Asian Buddhism have on the ancient and medieval world? What is the relationship between modern Buddhism and ancient Buddhism?
Participation in GEP India Program
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Participation in GEP India Program
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ASST 391 Buddhist Studies India Program: Independent Study Project 7-8 credits
Students spend three weeks of the program engaged in independent study of a topic related to Buddhist Studies, utilizing the unique resources available in India and neighboring countries. At the completion of the Independent Study period, students return to the Burmese Vihar, where their work is reviewed by their advisor and presented to the group.
Participation in Buddhist Studies India Program, winter break
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Participation in GEP India Program
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HIST 268 India Program: History, Globalization, and Politics in Modern India 6 credits
Indian democracy presents a complicated social and political terrain that is being reshaped and remapped by a wide variety of efforts to bring about economic development, social change, political representation, justice, and equality. In this course we will examine, among other topics, the history of modern India with a focus on political movements centered on issues of colonialism, nationalism, class, gender, and caste. We will also examine changes in contemporary India brought about by globalization, and study how particular groups and communities have reacted and adapted to these developments.
OCS India Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the India OCS Program required
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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 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PHIL 318 Buddhist Studies India Program: Buddhist Philosophy 7-8 credits
This course introduces students to major trends in Buddhist philosophy as it developed in India from the time of the Buddha until the 11th century CE. The course emphasizes the relationships between philosophical reasoning and the meditation practices encountered in the Buddhist Meditation Traditions course. With this in mind, the course is organized into three units covering the Indian philosophical foundations for the Theravāda, Zen, and Tibetan Vajrayāna traditions. While paying attention first and foremost to philosophical arguments and their evolution, we also examine the ways in which metaphysics, epistemology and ethics inform one another in each tradition.
OCP GEP Buddhist Studies India
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Acceptance into the Buddhist Studies program
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RELG 100 Christianity and Colonialism 6 credits
From its beginnings, Christianity has been concerned with the making of new persons and worlds: the creation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It has also maintained a tight relationship to power, empire, and the making of modernity. In this course we will investigate this relationship within the context of colonial projects in the Americas, Africa, India, and the Pacific. We will trace the making of modern selves from Columbus to the abolition (and remainders) of slavery, and from the arrival of Cook in the Sandwich Islands to the journals of missionaries and the contemporary fight for Hawaiian sovereignty.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 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 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 257 Asian Religions and Ecology 6 credits
How “eco-friendly” are Asian religious traditions? What does “eco-friendly” even mean? This course begins with an overview of the major religious traditions of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. From this foundation, we turn to modern and contemporary ecological thinkers, movements, and policies and discuss their indebtedness to, and divergence from, various religious heritages. We will also explore how modernity, capitalism, industrialization, climate collapse, and Western environmental movements have influenced eco-advocacy in contemporary Asia.
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RELG 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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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 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 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