Religious Studies Courses

Courses

 NOTE: To verify courses offered 2023-24, please see the course catalog for each college or check with current schedule of classes.

• RLST 002 PO -Ideas of Love
• RLST 010 CM -Introduction to South Asian Religions
• RLST 012 CM -Devotional Worlds of South Asia
• RLST 015 CM -Myth and Religion
• RLST 016 PO -The Life Story of the Buddha
• RLST 020 PO -Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
• RLST 021 CM -Jewish Civilization
• RLST 022 CM -Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
• RLST 037 CM -History of World Christianity
• RLST 040 PO -Religious Ethics
• RLST 041 CM -Morality and Religion
• RLST 042 PO -The Art of Living
• RLST 043 CM -Introduction to Religious Thought
• RLST 045 CM -Sikhism
• RLST 048 PO -Nourishing Life
• RLST 049 PO -Buddhist Meditation
• PHIL 052 PZ -Philosophy of Religion
• RLST 055 CM -Jewish Art and Identity
• RLST 057 CM -Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy
• RLST 058 CM -End of the World as We Know It
• RLST 059 CM -The Afterworld in the Islamic Tradition
• RLST 060 SC -Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
• RLST 061 SC -New Testament and Christian Origins
• RLST 064 CM -Islam in Motion
• RLST 065 CM -Contemporary Issues in the Study of Islam
• HIST 073 PZ -The Problem with Profit
• HIST 074 PZ -Queering the Medievial?
• RLST 080 PO -The Holy Fool: The Comic, the Ugly and Divine Madness
• RLST 084 CM -Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
• PHIL 084 PZ -Islamic Philosophy
• RLST 085 SC -Conquered and Colonized Christianities
• RLST 087 CM -Israel - Zionism and the Jewish State
• ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender, Cosmology and the State
• RLST 089 PO -Bible, Empire, Globalization
• RLST 090 SC -Early Christian Bodies
• RLST 091 SC -Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity
• RLST 092 SC -Introduction to Early Christianites
• RLST 093 CM -Religion and Politics in Israel
• RLST 093 SC -Early Christianity and/as Theory
• RLST 095 SC -Jesus, Paul, and Early Christian Sexualities
• PHIL 096 JT -God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason
• RLST 096 SC -Eros and Human Sexuality: Antiquity & Byzantium
• RLST 097 PO -Dante’s Religious Journey
• RLST 100 PO -Worlds of Buddhism
• RLST 101A CM -The Mahābhārata I
• RLST 101B CM -Epic Rāmāyana: Religion, Literature and Poetry
• RLST 102 CM -Hinduism & South Asian Culture
• RLST 103 PO -Religious Traditions of China
• RLST 104 PO -Religious Traditions of Japan
• RLST 105 HM -Religions in American Culture
• RLST 107 PO -Buddhism Modernity in 20th-Century China
• RLST 108 PO -Buddhism & Society in Southeast Asia
• RLST 109 CM -Readings in the Hindu Tradition
• RLST 110 PO -Death
• RLST 111 CM -Rebels, Radicals, and Religions on the Margins
• RLST 112 HM -Engaging Religion
• RLST 113 HM -God, Darwin, and Design in America
• RLST 114 HM -Prophecy, Apocalypse
• SOC 114 PZ -Sociology of Religion
• RLST 115 CM -Asian American Religions
• RLST 116 PO -The Lotus Sutra in East Asia
• RLST 117 PO -The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine and Practice
• RLST 118 CM -Hindu Goddess Worship
• RLST 119 PZ -Religion in Medieval East Asia
• RLST 120 CM -The Life of Jesus
• CLAS 121 JT -Classical Mythology
• RLST 121 SC -The Pauline Tradition
• RLST 122 JT -Arab Cultural Histories
• RLST 128 PO -Religion of Islam
• RLST 132 PO -Messiahs and the Millennium
• RLST 133 PO -Modern Judaism
• RLST 135 CM -Jerusalem: The Holy City
• RLST 136 CM -Religion in Contemporary America
• RLST 137 CM -Jewish-Christian Relations
• RLST 138 CM -American Religious History
• RLST 139 PO -Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 140 PO -The Stories We Tell: Narrative and the Moral Imagination
• RLST 141 PO -The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation
• RLST 142 AF -The Problem of Evil in African American Engagements
• RLST 143 CM -Philosophy of Religion
• RLST 144 CM -Life, Death and Survival of Death
• RLST 145 CM -Religion and Science
• RLST 146 CM -The Holocaust
• RLST 147 HM -World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements (3)
• RLST 148 PO -Sufism
• RLST 149 PO -Islamic Thought
• RLST 150 AF -The Eye of God: Race and Empires of the Sun
• RLST 152 PO -Children’s Literature
• RLST 153 CM -Religion and American Politics
• RLST 154 PO -Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
• PHIL 155 PZ -Islam vs. Islam
• RLST 155 PO -Religion, Ethics and Social Practice
• RLST 156 CM -Revolt/Reform in Early Modern Europe
• RLST 157 PO -Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
• RLST 158 PO -Jewish Mysticism
• RLST 160 SC -Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels
• RLST 161 CM -Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
• RLST 162 PO -Modern Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 163 CM -Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition
• RLST 164 PO -Women and Gender in the Islamic Tradition
• RLST 165 CM -Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• RLST 166 PO -Religion, Ethics and Social Practice
• RLST 166B CM -Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST 168 HM -Activism, Vocation, Justice
• RLST 169 CM -Christianity and Politics in East Asia
• RLST 170 SC -Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity
• HIST 170 PZ -Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire
• RLST 171 CM -Religion and Film
• RLST 172 PO -The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture
• HIST 173 PZ -Religion, Violence and Tolerance, 1450-1650
• RLST 174 CM -Religion and the American Presidency
• HIST 175 PZ -Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700
• RLST 176 CM -Visionaries, Prophets and Transformative Leadership
• RLST 177 PO -Gender and Religion
• RLST 178 PO -The Modern Jewish Experience
• RLST 179 HM -Special Topics in Religious Studies
• RLST 181 PO -Prison, Punishment, Redemption
• RLST 183 HM -Ghosts and Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media
• RLST 184 PO -Queer Theory and the Bible
• RLST 186 CM -Research Practicum in Archeology
• RLST 189A PO -Contemporary Christian Theology
• RLST 189Z PO -The Zoroastrian Tradition

Integrative Courses, Independent Study and the Senior Thesis.

• RLST 180 PO -Interpreting Religious Worlds
• RLST 190 PO -Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
• RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis

Other Cross-Listed Courses in Religious Studies

• ANTH 087 SC -Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam
• ANTH 120 PO -Altered States of Conciousness
• ANTH 150 PO -Understanding Religion
• ANTH 171 SC -Seminar in Sexuality and Religion
• ENGL 080 PO -The Bible as Literature
• GOVT 138 CM -Religion and Politics in Latin America
• HIST 013 PO -Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam
• HIST 042 PO -Worlds of Islam
• HIST 043 PO -The Middle East and North Africa Since 1500
• HIST 047 SC -The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIST 100AK PO -Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
• HIST 100WX PO -Crusade and Jihad
• HIST 131 HM -The Jewish Experience in America
• HIST 140 PO -Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
• HIST 173 AF -Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race
• MUS 120 SC -Music in Christian Practice
• PHIL 170 SC -Faith and Reason
• REL 410 (CGU)- The Qu’ran and Its Interpreters (HRT II, MES)
• REL 432 (CGU)- Islam in the American Mosaic (HRT II)