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Study of Religion Courses

Upper Division Courses

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.

Course List

Courses marked with an asterisk have readings in foreign languages. See departmental course listings for requisites.

Group I: Methods

Anthropology

156. Comparative Religion

History

193A. History of Religions: Myth

193E. Special Topics in History of Religions

Philosophy

175. Topics in Philosophy of Religion

Study of Religion

100. Undergraduate Seminar: Study of Religion

110. Religion and Violence

Theater

101A. History of World Theater and Drama: Ritual and Religious Drama

Group II: Nonliterate and Ancient Religious Traditions

Ancient Near East (Near Eastern Languages)

130. Ancient Egyptian Religion

Anthropology

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

Classics

166A. Greek Religion

166B. Roman Religion

168. Comparative Mythology

Folklore and 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

History

193D. Religions of the Ancient Near East

Iranian (Near Eastern Languages)

170. Religion in Ancient Iran

World Arts and Cultures

181B. Dance in Southeast Asia

181D. Dance in South Asia

C187. Dance in Native American Cultures

Group III: Western and Near Eastern Religious Traditions

Christianity

Classics

M170. Power and Imagination in Byzantium

Greek (Classics)

*130. Readings in the New Testament

History

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

Philosophy

100B. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

107. Topics in Medieval Philosophy

118. Kierkegaard

Slavic (Slavic Languages)

201. Introduction to Old Church Slavic

Islam

Arabic (Near Eastern Languages)

*120. Islamic Texts

Art History

C104C. Problems in Islamic Art

History

107A-107B. Islamic Civilization

109A. History of North Africa from the Moslem Conquest: To 1578

110A. Iranian History: Islamic Iran to 1800

Islamics (Near Eastern Languages)

110. Introduction to Islam

Judaism

Ancient Near East (Near Eastern Languages)

162. Archaeology and Religion of the Holy Land

170. Introduction to Biblical Studies

Comparative Literature

M101. Hebrew Literature in English -- Literary Traditions in Ancient Israel: Bible and Apocrypha

Hebrew (Near Eastern Languages)

*120. Biblical Texts

125. Hebrew Bible with Medieval Commentaries

*130. Rabbinic Texts

History

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

Jewish Studies (Near Eastern Languages)

130. Modern Jewish Religious Movements and Their Ideologies

M150A-M150B. Hebrew Literature in English

Sociology

159. Comparative Studies of Jewish Communities in the U.S. and Abroad

Group IV: South Asian and East Asian Traditions

Art History

114A. Early Art of India

114C. Japanese Art

114D. Later Art of India

114E. Arts of Korea

114F. Arts of Southeast Asia

Chinese (East Asian Languages)

160. Chinese Buddhism

*165. Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Texts

175. Introduction to Chinese Thought

265A-265B. Seminars: Chinese Buddhist Texts

East Asian Languages and Cultures

161. Buddhist Literature in Translation

162. Buddhist Meditation Traditions

History

186. Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese Folk Religion

188A. Early History of India

193B, 193C. Religions of South and Southeast Asia

Indic (East Asian Languages)

175. Introduction to Indic Philosophy

Japanese (East Asian Languages)

C160. Japanese Buddhism

161. Religious Life in Modern Japan

175. Introduction to Japanese Thought

265A. Seminar: Japanese Buddhist Texts

Korean (East Asian Languages)

160. Korean Buddhism

*165. Introduction to Korean Buddhist Texts

175. Introduction to Traditional Korean Thought


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