100. Undergraduate Seminar: Study of Religion. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Limited to 20 students. Interdisciplinary approach to some major topics in study of religion, such as religion and politics, mysticism, ideas of revelation, myth and religion, worship and ritual. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
110. Religion and Violence. Seminar, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of capacity of religion to mobilize and legitimate violence. Materials include theoretical texts by Rene Girard, Walter Burkert, Jonathan Z. Smith, and David Rapoport and case studies dealing with religion and violence in India, Northern Ireland, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the U.S.
Courses marked with an asterisk have readings in foreign languages. See departmental course listings for requisites.
156. Comparative Religion
193A. History of Religions: Myth
193E. Special Topics in History of Religions
175. Topics in Philosophy of Religion
100. Undergraduate Seminar: Study of Religion
110. Religion and Violence
101A. History of World Theater and Drama: Ritual and Religious Drama
130. Ancient Egyptian Religion
114P. Ancient Civilizations of Western Middle America (Nahuatl Sphere)
114Q. Ancient Civilizations of Eastern Middle America (Maya Sphere)
171. Sub-Saharan Africa
174P. Ethnography of South American Indians
177. Cultures of the Pacific
166A. Greek Religion
166B. Roman Religion
168. Comparative Mythology
M122. Celtic Mythology
M126. Baltic and Slavic Folklore and Mythology
M128. Hungarian Folklore and Mythology
M129. Folklore and Mythology of the Ugric Peoples
130. North American Indian Folklore and Mythology Studies
131. Folklore of India
M155. Oral Traditions in Africa
193D. Religions of the Ancient Near East
170. Religion in Ancient Iran
181B. Dance in Southeast Asia
181D. Dance in South Asia
C187. Dance in Native American Cultures
M170. Power and Imagination in Byzantium
*130. Readings in the New Testament
119. The Christian Church, 100 to 1517
120. The Christian Religion, 100 to 1350
125B. History of Modern Europe: Baroque Culture and Absolutist Politics, 1600 to 1715
150C. History of Religion in the U.S.
194A. History of Early Christians
194B. Religious Environment of Early Christians
194C. Jesus of Nazareth in Historical Research
100B. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
107. Topics in Medieval Philosophy
118. Kierkegaard
201. Introduction to Old Church Slavic
*120. Islamic Texts
C104C. Problems in Islamic Art
107A-107B. Islamic Civilization
109A. History of North Africa from the Moslem Conquest: To 1578
110A. Iranian History: Islamic Iran to 1800
110. Introduction to Islam
162. Archaeology and Religion of the Holy Land
170. Introduction to Biblical Studies
M101. Hebrew Literature in English -- Literary Traditions in Ancient Israel: Bible and Apocrypha
*120. Biblical Texts
125. Hebrew Bible with Medieval Commentaries
*130. Rabbinic Texts
111C. History of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1300 to 1923
M191A-M191B. Survey of Jewish History
191G. European Jewry from 1881 to the Present
M192A-M192B. Jewish Intellectual History
130. Modern Jewish Religious Movements and Their Ideologies
M150A-M150B. Hebrew Literature in English
159. Comparative Studies of Jewish Communities in the U.S. and Abroad
114A. Early Art of India
114C. Japanese Art
114D. Later Art of India
114E. Arts of Korea
114F. Arts of Southeast Asia
160. Chinese Buddhism
*165. Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Texts
175. Introduction to Chinese Thought
265A-265B. Seminars: Chinese Buddhist Texts
161. Buddhist Literature in Translation
162. Buddhist Meditation Traditions
186. Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese Folk Religion
188A. Early History of India
193B, 193C. Religions of South and Southeast Asia
175. Introduction to Indic Philosophy
C160. Japanese Buddhism
161. Religious Life in Modern Japan
175. Introduction to Japanese Thought
265A. Seminar: Japanese Buddhist Texts
160. Korean Buddhism
*165. Introduction to Korean Buddhist Texts
175. Introduction to Traditional Korean Thought