Religious Studies Major

Major Requirements

The Religious Studies (RLST) major encompasses both breadth and depth of study. Major requirements are:

• Four courses in a specialized field at intermediate and advanced levels.A specialized field of study may be based on a specific religious tradition, philosophical theme, historical period, or geographic area. Other examples of specialized fields include: Comparative Global Religions; Gender, Women, and Sexuality; Philosophy of Religion and Religious Thought; and Religion and Social Change. See the Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Religious Studies website for additional specialized fields.
• Two integrative courses: RLST 180 PO  and RLST 190 PO . It is recommended that RLST 180 PO  be completed prior to the senior year.
• Three elective courses in Religious Studies outside the specialized field.
• RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis .

Religious Studies Courses

Anthropology

• •  ANTH 087 SC -Contemp Issues: Gender & Islam
• •  ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender,Cosmology & State
• •  ANTH 150 PO -Anthropology of Religion
• •  ANTH 171 SC -Seminar in Sexuality & Religion

Classics

• •  CLAS 121 JT -Classical Mythology

English and World Literature

• •  ENGL 080 PO -Intermediate Poetry Workshop

Government

• •  GOVT 138 CM -Relig/Politcs/Change in Lat-Am

History

• •  HIST 042 PO -Worlds of Islam
• •  HIST 043 PO -Middle East in Modern Times
• •  HIST 073 PZ -The Problem with Profit
• •  HIST 074 PZ -Queering the Medieval? Holiness
• •  HIST 173 AF -Black Intl Pol in US
• •  HIST 175 PZ -Magic, Heresy & Gender

Music

• •  MUS 120 SC -Music in Christian Practice

Philosophy

• •  PHIL 052 PZ -Philosophy of Religion
• •  PHIL 084 PZ -Islamic Philosophy
• •  PHIL 096 JT -God & Phil: A Conflict in Reason
• •  PHIL 156 PZ -After the “Death of God”
• •  PHIL 170 SC -Faith and Reason

Religious Studies

• •  RLST 002 PO -Ideas of Love
• •  RLST 010 CM -Intro to South Asian Religions
• •  RLST 012 CM -Devotional Worlds of South Asia
• •  RLST 015 CM -Myth and Religion
• •  RLST 020 PO -Intro to the Hebrew Bible
• •  RLST 021 CM -Jewish Civilization
• •  RLST 022 CM -Intro Western Relig Traditions
• •  RLST 037 CM -History of World Christianity
• •  RLST 040 PO -Religious Ethics
• •  RLST 041 CM -Morality and Religion
• •  RLST 043 CM -Intro to Religious Thought
• •  RLST 045 CM -Sikhism
• •  RLST 048 PO -Nourishing Life
• •  RLST 049 PO -Buddhist Meditation
• •  RLST 055 CM -Jewish Art & Identity
• •  RLST 057 CM -Islamic Empire & Political Phil
• •  RLST 058 CM -End of the World As We Know It
• •  RLST 059 CM -Dreams and Afterworlds in Islam
• •  RLST 060 SC -Feminist Interpret of the Bible
• •  RLST 061 SC -New Testament Christian Origins
• •  RLST 065 CM -Contemporary Issues Study Islam
• •  RLST 085 SC -Conquered Colonized Christianity
• •  RLST 087 CM -Israel-Zionism & Jewish State
• •  RLST 090 SC -Early Christian Bodies
• •  RLST 092 SC -Intro to Early Christianities
• •  RLST 093 CM -Religion & Politics in Israel
• •  RLST 093 SC -Early Christianity & Theory
• •  RLST 095 SC -Jesus,Paul,Early Chrstn Sexualty
• •  RLST 096 SC -Eros & Sex: Antiquity/Byzantium
• •  RLST 097 SC -Queer African Christianities
• •  RLST 100 PO -Worlds of Buddhism
• •  RLST 101A CM -The Mahabharata
• •  RLST 101B CM -Ramayana: Lit/Politics/Culture
• •  RLST 102 CM -Hinduism & South Asian Culture
• •  RLST 103 PO -Chinese Thought and Religions
• •  RLST 105 HM -Religions in American Culture
• •  RLST 107 PO -Buddhist Modernity in China
• •  RLST 109 CM -Readings in the Hindu Tradition
• •  RLST 110 PO -Death, Dying, and the Afterlife
• •  RLST 111 CM -Rebels/Radicals/Relig on Margins
• •  RLST 112 HM -Engaging Religion
• •  RLST 113 HM -God, Darwin, Design in America
• •  RLST 114 HM -Prophecy, Apocalypse
• •  RLST 115 CM -Asian American Religions
• •  RLST 117 PO -Islamic Law
• •  RLST 118 CM -Hindu Goddess Worship
• •  RLST 121 SC -The Pauline Tradition
• •  RLST 122 JT -Arab Cultural Histories
• •  RLST 128 PO -The Religion of Islam
• •  RLST 129 CM -Ancient Jewish Experience
• •  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
• •  RLST 141 PO -The Experience of God
• •  RLST 142 AF -Prob of Evil: Afr-Amer Engagmnts
• •  RLST 143 CM -Philosophy of Religion
• •  RLST 144 CM -Life, Death, Survival of Death
• •  RLST 145 CM -Religion & Science
• •  RLST 147 HM -World & Transnational Religions
• •  RLST 148 PO -Sufism
• •  RLST 150 AF -Eye of God: Race and Empire
• •  RLST 152 PO -Children’s Literature
• •  RLST 153 CM -Religion & American Politics
• •  RLST 156 CM -Revolt/Reform Early Mod Europe
• •  RLST 157 PO -Post-Holocaust Philosophy
• •  RLST 158 PO -Jewish Mysticism
• •  RLST 161 CM -Gurus, Swamis, & Others
• •  RLST 162 PO -Modern Jewish Philosophy
• •  RLST 163 CM -Women & Gender in Jewish Trad.
• •  RLST 164 PO -Women in Islamic Traditions
• •  RLST 165 CM -Rel. & Politics: Medieval Europe
• •  RLST 166B CM -Relig, Politcs & Global Violence
• •  RLST 168 HM -Activism & Change
• •  RLST 170 SC -Womn+Relgn in Greco-Roman Antiq
• •  RLST 171 CM -Religion & Film
• •  RLST 174 CM -Religion & American Presidency
• •  RLST 176 CM -Visionaries/Prophets/Leadership
• •  RLST 177 PO -Gender and Religion
• •  RLST 179 HM -Special Topics:Religious Studies
• •  RLST 180 PO -Interpreting Religious Worlds
• •  RLST 181 PO -Prison Punishment Redemption(CP)
• •  RLST 183 HM -Ghosts & the Machines
• •  RLST 184 PO -Queer Theory & the Bible
• •  RLST 186 CM -Research Practicum in Archeology
• •  RLST 189A PO -Contemporary Christian Theology
• •  RLST 189Z PO -The Zoroastrian Tradition
• •  RLST 190 PO -Senior Seminar
• •  RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis

Sociology

• •  SOC 114 PZ -Sociology of Religion