Winter 2004 Course Descriptions
DVSC 622 30300 |
Introduction to Constructive Studies of Religion |
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Gamwell |
M/W |
3:00-4:20 |
S106 |
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PQ: Open only to 1st year AMRS and AM students. |
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DVSC 622 45100 |
Reading Course: Special Topics in Divinity |
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Staff |
ARR |
ARR |
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Petition with bibliography signed by instructor; enter section from faculty list. |
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DVSC 622 49900 |
Exam Preparation: Divinity |
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Staff |
ARR |
ARR |
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Open only to Ph.D. students in quarter of qualifying exams; enter section from faculty list. |
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DVSC 622 50200 |
Research: Divinity |
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Staff |
ARR |
ARR |
ARR |
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Petition signed by instructor; enter section from faculty list. |
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DVSC 622 59900 |
Thesis Work: Divinity |
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Staff |
ARR |
ARR |
ARR |
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Petition signed by instructor; enter section from faculty list. |
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BIBL 603 32500 |
Introduction to the New Testament: Texts and Contexts |
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Mitchell |
T/Th |
10:30-11:50 |
S208 |
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An immersion in the texts of the New Testament
with the following goals: through careful reading to come to know
well some representative pieces of this literature; to gain useful
knowledge of the historical, geographical, social, religious, cultural
and political contexts of these texts and the events they relate;
to learn the major literary genres represented in the canon ('gospels,'
'acts,' 'letters,' and 'apocalypse') and strategies for reading them;
to comprehend the various theological visions to which these texts
give expression; to situate oneself and one's prevailing questions
about this material in the history of interpretation. Discussion group
meets F 12:00-1:00 in S208. |
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BIBL 603 34000 |
Intro to Biblical Hebrew II |
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Sacks |
M/W/F |
8:00-8:50 |
S204 |
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PQ: Bible 33900 or consent of instructor. |
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BIBL 603 35300 |
Introduction to Koine Greek II |
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Blanton |
M/W/F |
8:00-8:50 |
S200 |
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PQ: Bible 35100 or equivalent |
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BIBL 603 39800 |
German: Lecture/Discussion Group |
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Klauck |
W |
5:00-6:30 |
S208 |
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In this course, German exegetical and
theological literature will be read and discussed. Only German may
be used in this class, which is intended to help students to become
more fluent in German and to gain a better knowledge of research done
in German speaking countries. |
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BIBL 603 40200 |
Midrash: Song of Songs Rabba |
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Fishbane |
T |
3:00-5:50 |
S200 |
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PQ: Hebrew |
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BIBL 603 52100 |
Seminar: Galatians and James: Traditions in Conflict |
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Mitchell |
Th |
1:30-4:20 |
S403 |
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Is salvation by faith or by works (or
by some combination of the two)? This seminar will involve a close
exegetical analysis of two early Christian documents, both purportedly
letters by first generation Christians, which use suspiciously similar
vocabulary and even invoke the same exemplum (Abraham) to debate this
religous question. First we shall study the historical context, religious
world-view, rhetorical purpose and theology of each document on its
own terms, and then test various theories of their literary and historical
relationships with one another. Ongoing discussion of the nature,
purpose and meaning of a biblical canon in Christian tradition. |
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THEO 604 30100 |
History of Christian Thought I |
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Hollywood |
M/W |
1:30-2:50 |
S106 |
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Ident. HCHR 30100 |
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THEO 604 30300 |
History of Christian Thought III |
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Schreiner |
M/W |
10:00-11:20 |
S400 |
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Ident. HCHR 30300 |
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THEO 604 31200 |
History of Theological Ethics II |
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Schweiker |
T/Th |
9:00-10:20 |
S106 |
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This is the second part of a two-part
history. It is conducted through the study of basic, classic texts.
The course begins with the tumultuous period of the Reformation and
the Renaissance arising from the so-called Middle Ages and so attention
to rebirth of classical thought, the plight of women in the medieval
world, the interactions among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and the
rise of cities and even nations. The course then moves into the emergence
of distinctly "modern" forms of ethics in the "Enlightenment,"
through the romantic period and to the political, economic, and religious
crises of the 20th century. The history ends with the emergence in
the global field of the power interaction of the religions. While
the golden thread of the history is the development and differentiation
of Christian moral thinking, this is set within and compared with
the complexity of traditions (philosophical, Jewish, Islamic) that
intersect and often collide through centuries of Western thought.
In this way, the exploration of one tradition opens onto rich comparative
thinking. The course proceeds by lectures and discussion. Most readings
are in translation. There will be a final examination. This is a basic
course and thus no previous work in theology, philosophy, or ethics
is required. |
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THEO 604 40500 |
Black Theology: First Generation |
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Hopkins |
W |
1:30-4:20 |
S204 |
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The purpose of this course is to investigate critically the origin of black theology from the 1960s to the present and to identify major theological themes; to examine the coherence of key intellectual arguments; and to analyze the outstanding theological issues and methodological approaches. |
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THEO 604 46300 |
Hartshorne and Ogden: Philosophical Theology |
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Gamwell |
M/W |
10:00-11:20 |
S200 |
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| A critical examination and comparison
of Charles Hartshorne and Schubert M. Ogden, especially with respect
to their conceptions of faith, religion, and God. |
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THEO 604 46700 |
Race |
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Hopkins |
M |
1:00-3:50 |
S204 |
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An examination of the concept of "race." What are its origins, the contemporary debates around its definition, and how does race figure in contemporary American thought? |
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THEO 604 47001 |
Sex, Gender, Sexuality and the Study of Religion I |
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Hollywood |
T |
1:00-3:50 |
S208 |
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This class, the first in a two-course
sequence, will analyze key texts by Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir,
Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault. Attention will also be given to
recent studies that contextualize the work of these four thinkers
and clarify its importance for contemporary feminist, gay and lesbian,
and queer studies. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will
highlight often overlooked intersections between sex, gender, sexuality,
and religion. |
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THEO 604 48000 |
Ethics, Religion, Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot |
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Tracy / Meltzer / Rubin |
W |
2:00-4:50 |
COBB |
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This course will study in lectures and
seminars the relation of ethics, psychoanalysis and religion by concentrating
on texts by Frued, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot. |
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THEO 604 48100 |
The Theology and Mythology of Evil |
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Doniger / Tracy |
Th |
1:00-3:50 |
S208 |
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A study of classic texts on evil, from
the Book of Job, Greek tragedy (Oedipus Rex, The Bacchae),
Hindu mythology, Shakespeare (Othello, King Lear), Dante
(Inferno), Susan Neiman (Evil in Modern Thought),
Annie Dillard (For the Time Being), Toni Morrison (Beloved)
and J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace). |
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DVPR 605 30201 |
Indian Philosophy I |
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Staff |
T/Th |
10:30-11:50 |
S403 |
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Ident. HREL 30200/SALC 20901/30901 |
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DVPR 605 39800 |
Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, the Self, Individuation and Being |
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Marion |
Th |
3:00-5:50 |
S106 |
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Heidegger's masterpiece of 1927 remains
a stumbling stone for philosophy. By an extensive reading, with attention
paid to the previous courses taught by Heidegger in Freiburg i./Br.
and those just following in Marburg(using the Gesamausgabe and recent
studies as T. Kiesiel's), but also to subsequent interpretation (by
Sartre, Levinas, etc.) the question will be asked: whether and how
far a renewed access to the self and its individuation could be achieved
along with the ontological difference, and if not, why? German text
and Being and Time, translation by J. Stambaught, SUNY, 1996. |
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DVPR 605 41501 |
Hegel on Religion |
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Lilla |
Meets Alternating T/F |
1:30-4:20 |
F305 |
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DVPR 605 46300 |
Hartshorne and Ogden: Philosophical Theology |
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Gamwell |
M/W |
10:00-11:20 |
S200 |
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A critical examination and comparison
of Charles Hartshorne and Schubert M. Ogden, especially with respect
to their conceptions of faith, religion, and God. |
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DVPR 605 49700 |
Augustine, Confessions, a Reading |
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Marion |
T |
3:00-5:50 |
S106 |
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This text was a breakthrough by which
Augustine has imposed to philosophy and theology central issues: the
self, election as identification, philosophy seen from the point of
view of salvation (spiritual exercise), time as history and eschatology,
being as creation, biblical text as interpreting the reader, etc.
But all those themas have recently got a renewed intensity as postmodern
thought and mainly phenomenology (Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida, etc.)
have pointed out that Augustine, to some extent, might have not been
involved in standard metaphysics. The reading is based on the Latin
text (Bibliotheque augustinienne", Paris), some knowledge of
Latin may be helpful. Traductions: either H. Chadwick (Oxford, 1991),
or M. Boulding (New York, 1997) |
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CHRM 606 30300 |
The Public Church and its Ministry |
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Culp |
T/Th |
3:00-4:20 |
MEMLib |
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CHRM 606 30600 |
Introduction to the Study of Ministry |
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Boden / Lindner |
W |
3:00-4:20 |
S400 |
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Do Not Register For This Course. |
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CHRM 606 35600 |
Arts of Ministry: Preaching |
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Lindner |
F |
9:00-11:50 |
S400 |
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PQ: Open to second-year M.Div students only. |
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CHRM 606 40700 |
The Practice of Ministry |
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Staff |
F |
1:00-3:50 |
S400 |
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CHRM 606 42600 |
Senior Ministry Project Seminar II |
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Gilpin |
F |
9:00-11:50 |
S403 |
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HIJD 625 40200 |
Midrash: Song of Songs Rabba |
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Fishbane |
T |
3:00-5:50 |
S200 |
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PQ: Hebrew |
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HIJD 625 43800 |
Brauer Seminar-The Religious Quest for the Human: Jewish and Christian Reflections |
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Mendes-Flohr / Schweiker |
T |
1:00-3:50 |
S204 |
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Participants in the 2004 seminar will
explore a range of thinkers who sought in unique ways to foster humane
concern within their respective religious traditions in order thereby
to secure the image of God in the world. Representing various expressions
of the Jewish and Christian traditions, these thinkers manifest a
capacious and distinctive cast of mind important not only in the history
of modern religious thought but also for contemporary reflection and
life. The seminar aims to bring these post-Enlightenment thinkers
into dialogue determined not by consideration of inter-faith understanding,
but rather through a set of shared moral and political concerns. By
means of shared reflection, the seminar also seeks to outline a constructive
religious humanism adequate to the demands of the current world situation.
In sum, the seminar will explore the religious quest for the human
on three interlocking levels inquiry: the articulation of a shared
concern and religious sensibility with respect to its cultural and
historical situation; the study, analysis and comparison of major
intellectual voices and their texts representing just that sensibility;
the specification of the tasks of developing a constructive religious
humanism for the current situation. The expectation is that students
will have some interest in all these levels of inquiry. It is also
the aspiration of the seminar better to educate all of us on a vital,
if too often forgotten, expression of religious thought in the modern
and post-modern period. |
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HIJD 625 45400 |
Readings in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed |
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Robinson |
M |
10:30-1:20 |
S403 |
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A careful study of select passages in
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In addition to studying the Guide
itself, the students will be introduced to Maimonideanism, the theological-philosophical
culture that developed around the works of the twelfth-century philosopher,
physician, and legal scholar. |
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HIJD 625 45800 |
Franz Rosenzweig: the New Thinking |
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Mendes-Flohr |
T/Th |
9:00-10:20 |
S403 |
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Ident. JWSG 33600 |
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HCHR 626 30100 |
History of Christian Thought I |
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Hollywood |
M/W |
1:30-2:50 |
S106 |
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Ident. THEO 30100 |
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HCHR 626 30300 |
History of Christian Thought III |
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Schreiner |
M/W |
10:00-11:20 |
S400 |
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Ident. THEO 30300 |
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HCHR 626 37500 |
Spirituality of the 16th Century |
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Schreiner |
W |
2:30-5:20 |
S200 |
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HCHR 626 43600 |
Religion in Twentieth Century America |
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Gilpin |
T/Th |
9:00-10:20 |
S204 |
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A general history of religion in the United States from 1920 to the present, organized around the changing relations of religion to American public life. |
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HCHR 626 44100 |
Reading and Writing as Medieval Spiritual Practice |
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Pick |
T |
1:00-3:50 |
S400 |
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The twinned exercises of reading and writing
as they were practiced in the Middle Ages have gained a great deal
of scholarly attention in recent years. The purpose of this course
is to investigate what the work of these modern thinkers has revealed
about reading and writing as spiritual practice. Authors to be discussed
will include de Lubac, Hadot, Morrison, Carruthers, Dagenais, and
Geary. This course should be of interest not only to European medievalists,
but to anyone with an interest in reading and writing in pre-modern,
pre-print religious cultures. |
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HCHR 626 47001 |
Sex, Gender, Sexuality and the Study of Religion I |
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Hollywood |
T |
1:00-3:50 |
S208 |
|
This class, the first in a two-course
sequence, will analyze key texts by Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir,
Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault. Attention will also be given to
recent studies that contextualize the work of these four thinkers
and clarify its importance for contemporary feminist, gay and lesbian,
and queer studies. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will
highlight often overlooked intersections between sex, gender, sexuality,
and religion. |
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HCHR 626 49000 |
The Letter from Prison in Early Modern England |
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Gilpin |
Th |
1:30-4:20 |
S200 |
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A seminar on the letter from prison as a genre of religious literature in England from Sir Thomas More to the Quakers. |
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HREL 628 30200 |
Indian Philosophy I |
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Staff |
T/Th |
10:30-11:50 |
S403 |
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Ident. DVPR 30201/SALC 20901/30901 |
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HREL 628 32200 |
Religion, Sex, Politics, and Release in Ancient India |
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Doniger |
W/F |
2:00-3:20 |
S208 |
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Readings in the Upanishads, the
Laws of Manu, the Arthashastra, and the Kamasutra,
in English translation. A study of the four goals of human life (purusharthas)
in classical Hinduism. |
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HREL 628 35100 |
Indian Buddhism |
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Wedemeyer |
Tu/Th |
4:00-5:20 |
S204 |
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This course is designed to serve as an introductory survey of the history, doctrines, institutions, and practices of Buddhism in India from its origins through the end of the 20th century. Readings will be drawn both from primary sources (in translation) and secondary and tertiary scholarly research. |
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HREL 628 36001 |
Readings in Book 17 of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit |
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Doniger |
W/F |
10:30-11:50 |
S207 |
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PQ: One year of Sanskrit |
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HREL 628 42200 |
Religions of Ancient Iran |
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Lincoln |
T/Th |
9:00-10:20 |
S208 |
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Ident. ANCM 35400 |
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HREL 628 48100 |
The Theology and Mythology of Evil |
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Doniger / Tracy |
Th |
1:00-3:50 |
S208 |
|
A study of classic texts on evil, from
the Book of Job, Greek tragedy (Oedipus Rex, The Bacchae),
Hindu mythology, Shakespeare (Othello, King Lear), Dante
(Inferno), Susan Neiman (Evil in Modern Thought),
Annie Dillard (For the Time Being), Toni Morrison (Beloved)
and J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace). |
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HREL 628 51900 |
Representation and Ideology in the Study of South |
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Asian Religions |
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Wedemeyer |
M |
3:00-5:50 |
S200 |
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| This course is designed as an advanced seminar in
critical methodological issues in contemporary South Asian Religious
Studies. With a starting point in Edward Said's influential work Orientalism,
which initiated a wave of self-critical reflection among Asianists,
participants will discuss the history, methods, and ideology of South
Asian Studies (and its several sub-disciplines) in the context of
the modern academic study of religion(s). |
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RLIT 635 31500 |
Travelers on the Silk Road |
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Murrin |
M/W |
3:00-4:20 |
ARR |
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We will read some of the major travel
narratives of the Silk Road and Tibet, from Xuanzang, the most famous
of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who went West, through Marco Polo
and others, who went East, including a diplomat like Clavijo, who
went to see Tamerlane, to modern travelers like the spies the British
government sent from India to explore and map the area, the prototypes
for Kipling's Kim, and archaeologists like Aurel Stein who went both
ways on the Silk Road. Choice among all the travelers will be limited,
of course, by time and by the availability of texts. Through slide
lectures students will gain a sense of the physical characteristics
of the region and its art at various periods. At the same time the
student will learn indirectly about the different religions and political
regimes travelers experience, which changed dramatically over the
eleven centuries and more which we will cover in the course. |
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RLIT 635 43200 |
Tragedy: Theories and Texts |
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Yu |
M/W |
9:30-10:50 |
S204 |
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Ident. Comp Lit PQ: Undergraduates per consent of instructor. Ident. CMLIT 43100 |
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RLIT 635 45800 |
Song Lyrics |
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Yu |
Tu |
1:30-4:20 |
S403 |
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Ident. CHIN 45800 PQ: At least two years of classical Chinese; undergraduates per consent of instructor. |
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RETH 638 30400 |
Women, Religion, and Human Rights |
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Boden |
T/Th |
10:30-11:50 |
S106 |
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Ident. HMRT 24900 / 34900, RLST 24900 |
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RETH 638 31200 |
History of Theological Ethics II |
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Schweiker |
T/Th |
9:00-10:20 |
S106 |
|
This is the second part of a two part
history. It is conducted through the study of basic, classic texts.
The course begins with the tumultuous period of the Reformation and
the Renaissance arising from the so-called Middle Ages and so attention
to rebirth of classical thought, the plight of women in the medieval
world, the interactions among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and the
rise of cities and even nations. The course then moves into the emergence
of distinctly "modern" forms of ethics in the "Enlightenment,"
through the romantic period and to the political, economic, and religious
crises of the 20th century. The history ends with the emergence in
the global field of the power interaction of the religions. While
the golden thread of the history is the development and differentiation
of Christian moral thinking, this is set within and compared with
the complexity of traditions (philosophical, Jewish, Islamic) that
intersect and often collide through centuries of Western thought.
In this way, the exploration of one tradition opens onto rich comparative
thinking. The course proceeds by lectures and discussion. Most readings
are in translation. There will be a final examination. This is a basic
course and thus no previous work in theology, philosophy, or ethics
is required. |
||||
RETH 638 43800 |
Brauer Seminar- The Religious Quest for the Human: Jewish and Christian Reflections |
|||
Mendes-Flohr / Schweiker |
T |
1:00-3:50 |
S204 |
|
| Participants in the 2004 seminar will
explore a range of thinkers who sought in unique ways to foster humane
concern within their respective religious traditions in order thereby
to secure the image of God in the world. Representing various expressions
of the Jewish and Christian traditions, these thinkers manifest a
capacious and distinctive cast of mind important not only in the history
of modern religious thought but also for contemporary reflection and
life. The seminar aims to bring these post-Enlightenment thinkers
into dialogue determined not by consideration of inter-faith understanding,
but rather through a set of shared moral and political concerns. By
means of shared reflection, the seminar also seeks to outline a constructive
religious humanism adequate to the demands of the current world situation.
In sum, the seminar will explore the religious quest for the human
on three interlocking levels inquiry: the articulation of a shared
concern and religious sensibility with respect to its cultural and
historical situation; the study, analysis and comparison of major
intellectual voices and their texts representing just that sensibility;
the specification of the tasks of developing a constructive religious
humanism for the current situation. The expectation is that students
will have some interest in all these levels of inquiry. It is also
the aspiration of the seminar better to educate all of us on a vital,
if too often forgotten, expression of religious thought in the modern
and post-modern period. |
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RETH 638 45800 |
Politics, Ethics, and Terror |
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Elshtain |
M |
12:00-2:50 |
S208 |
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An examination of three responses to three
responses to twentieth century totalitarianism - Arendt, Bonhoeffer,
and Camus. What ethical wellsprings were drawn upon to confront Nazism
and Stalinism? What sorts of arguments about the function of ideology,
the loss of limits, the transgression of "orders of being,"
metaphors of plague or other ravages got deployed and to what ends?
What is the connection between explanation, understanding, and action
in the "dark times" through which our thinkers lived or
in which they died? |
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RETH 638 49900 |
Aristophanes |
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Nussbaum |
ARR |
ARR |
ARR |
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We will read Lysistrata in Greek,
and several other plays in translation. In the process we will study
the form and content of Old Comedy, and relevant issues about sex,
gender, and the body. |
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RETH 638 51302 |
Law-Philosophy Seminar: Sexuality and the Family |
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Nussbaum / Sunstein |
ARR |
ARR |
ARR |
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This is a seminar/workshop most of whose
participants are faculty from seven area institutions. It admits approximately
ten students by permission of the instructors. Its aim is to study,
each year, a topic that arises in both philosophy and the law and
to ask how bringing the two fields together may yield mutual illumination.
There are ten to twelve meetings throughout the year, on alternate
Mondays from 4 to 6 pm. Half of the sessions are led by local faculty,
half by visiting speakers. The leader assigns readings for the session
(which may be by that person, by other contemporaries, or by major
historical figures), and the session consists of a brief introduction
by the leader, followed by structured questioning by the two faculty
coordinators, followed by general discussion. Students write either
two 4-6 page papers per quarter, or a 20-25 page seminar paper at
the end of the year. The course satisfies the Law School Writing Requirement.
The schedule of meetings will be announced mid-September, and prospective
students should submit their credentials to both instructors by September
20. Past themes have included: practical reason; equality; privacy;
autonomy; global justice; pluralism and toleration; war. The theme
for 2003-4 will be Sexuality and Family. Likely speakers to be invited
include: Emily Buss, Mary Anne Case, William Eskridge, Martha Fineman,
David Halperin, Andrew Koppelman, Martha Minow, David Novak, Susan
Moller Okin, Fran Olsen, Kenji Yoshino. |
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AASR 607 30200 |
Introduction to Sociology of Religion |
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Riesebrodt |
Tu/Th |
4:30-5:50 |
S208 |
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Ident. SOCI 40111 |
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AASR 607 42000 |
Readings in Histories and Psychologies of Mental Health Illness |
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Homans |
M/W |
1:30-3:00 |
S400 |
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| Readings and discussions in a seminar
format of the selected psychological and historical studies of mental
health and mental illness. The following topics are studied (1)modern
psychiatry (2)the social and historical roots of modern psychiatry
(1950-2000) (3)traditional forms of mental disease and healing in
western history (4)cross-cultural psychiatry in non-western cultures
and (5)selected religious practices, insofar as these address and
engage mental life, such as casuistry, the cure of souls, pastoral
care, shamanism, and spirituality. |
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AASR 607 50012 |
A Clash of Civilizations? |
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Riesebrodt |
F |
2:00-4:50 |
S200 |
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Ident. SOCI 50012 |
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