RELIG-ST 5500      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Special topics in religious studies. The focus of the course will vary by semester and instructor.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500A      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500B      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500C      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500D      Special Topics in Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500E      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5500F      Special Topics In Religious Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5501A      Religion In America
An in-depth examination of selected aspects of the history of religions in America from the colonial period to the present. Special emphasis will be given to methodological issues in the study of American religious history. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5502      Religion & Colonialism in Latin America
The study of selected aspects of the history of religions in the Americas. Primary focus is on the complex ways that European, Native American Africans religions helped to structure and negotiate the experiences and the significance of cultural contact and colonialism through lived worlds of meaning.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5503      Visions, Dreams, and Prophesies as Religious Phenomena
This course explores the way visions, dreams, and prophesies have acquired religious significance in Western and non-western contexts from the ancient to the present.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5504      Gender and Religion
Cross-cultural and comparative study of how religious groups create and transmit gender roles and expectations.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5506      The History of Christianity to the Middle Ages
This course examines the historical and theological development of Christianity from its origins to the the High Middle Ages The main themes follow the mechanisms and conditions shaping Christianity's expansion into a major social, institutional and intellectual force with a focus on patterns of crisis and reform. This course is based on the study of primary sources ( both texts and objects) and modern scholarship. Cross-listed as HISTORY 5506A
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5507      The History of Christianity from the Middle Ages to the Present
This course examines the historical and theological development of Christianity from the High Middle Ages to the present. The main themes follow the mechanisms and conditions shaping Christianity's expansion into a major social, institutional and intellectual force with a focus on patterns of crisis and reform. This course is based on the study of primary sources ( both texts and objects) and modern scholarship.Cross-listed as HISTORY 5507A
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5508      Anthropology of Religion
This course explores the ways anthropologists have gone about studying religion from the opening decades of the 20th century to present. The course introduces students to the diversity of human religious expression and experience through anthropological literature and to the diversity of anthropological expression especially as it has been revealed in social scientific studies of religious life. The course is designed to generate a critical dialogue about the special role that religion has played in the ongoing anthropological engagement with ""other"" societies and cultures over time.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5510      Religions Of The World
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the major religions of the world, as well as to selected small-group religions. Our goal will be to learn to appreciate the similarities and differences in the structure and history of these religions. A primary focus will be on using the categories of the history of religions to examine and analyze the various dimensions of religion (e.g., historical, sociological, ritual, mythological, aesthetic). In addition, methodological issues of comparison will be addressed.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5567      Myth and Ritual
Myth and ""ritual"" have long been fundamental categories in the study of religion. This course will briefly survey some of the major theories and approaches to the study of myth and ritual from the Enlightenment to the present. Will not only trace the shifting meanings of ""myth"" and ""ritual,"" but will critically evaluate the utility of diverse approaches to the study of religious phenomena designated by these terms. Reading will include theoretical works, as well as selected case studies.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5584RS      Sacred Narratives And Texts
This course will study the ""social lives"" of sacred narratives and texts as they circulate within religious communities. Among the topics to be studied are methods of exegesis in different religious traditions, orality and literacy (including the reoralization of written texts), the canonization process, the emergence of interpretive specialists, text as amulets, reading and meditative practices and techniques, and narratives and the arts. The course is comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary in nature.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5586RS      Methodological Approaches To The Study Of Religion
This course examines the various disciplines that undertook the critical, objective study of religion beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century and continuing into the present. The course examines how the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities emerged in the last century and how the study of religion emerged from its roots in Jewish scholarship and Christian theology to be included under the umbrella of the humanities and social sciences. The historical development of religious studies as a historical and intellectual contexts.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5587      Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion
A survey of major scholars and theorists of religion from 1950 to the present, with an emphasis on significant shifts in the field.
Credits: 3 hours
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RELIG-ST 5587RS      Research Seminar
Students in this course will produce a major research paper under the direction of the instructor: a self-contained thesis chapter, an article for publication or the equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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