Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION ***** Comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of key elements (including scripture, religious experience, ideas of the divine, religious art and practices) of two Western and two non-Western religions, of the scholarly study of religion, and of the role of religion in the contemporary world. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons, Carroll.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN RELIGIONS ***** Introduction to the structures of African religions through readings. Topics include community, cosmology, ritual, ethical values, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, contribution to nationalism, social change, religion and art, and transplantation of African Religions in the Americas. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA ***** An introductory reading course examining the dynamics of African Christianity from the early church to the present. Course will include studying the African church during the Patristic era, the Colonial period, Prophetic Movements, nationalism, racial tensions, the role of women, and the emergence of a distinct theological voice. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE BIBLE AND ITS INTERPRETERS ***** An introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Compares modern-critical reading with early Jewish and Christian, often fanciful interpretations. ***** Instructor(s): Henze.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOD, TIME AND HISTORY ***** How is the passage of time given meaning, and what role--if any--is assigned to divinity in shaping the direction of events? Course explores various forms of recording and interpreting events, drawing from ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, and the Greco-Roman world--the cultures in which modern ideas of history began. ***** Also offered as HIST 113 and HUMA 113. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Henze.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HEBREW I ***** An introduction to Biblical Hebrew (two semesters) with emphasis on grammar and vocabulary. ***** Also offered as HEBR 125. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HEBREW II ***** Continuation of RELI 125. We will finish the grammar in the second half of this semester and then read selections from the Hebrew Bible. ***** Also offered as HEBR 126. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE BIBLICAL HEBREW I ***** Readings in the Hebrew Bible as well as in some unvocalized texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Review of grammar and vocabulary. ***** Prerequisite(s): Completion of RELI 125 and 126 or some knowledge of Hebrew but lack a thorough philological training. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE BIBLICAL HEBREW II ***** Continuation of RELI 127 (RELI 127 is not a prerequisite). ***** Also offered as HEBR 128. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: TIBETAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I ***** Readings in Tibetan Bon and Buddhist religious texts. Offered with additional work as RELI 532. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Gray Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TIBETAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE II ***** * Continuation of first semester. Knowledge of Tibetan alphabet & pronunciation. Offered with additional work as RELI 533. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN RELIGIONS ***** This course will survey the four major religions which originated in India, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Emphasis will be placed on the study of scriptures of these traditions. ***** Also offered as ASIA 139. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE RELIGIONS ***** Surveys the major Chinese religious traditions of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. Readings will include both philosophical texts, historical and anthropological studies, as well as popular literature. ***** Also offered as ASIA 140. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM ***** A historical survey of the Muslim religious tradition, from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the present day. Focus on development of Sunni and Shiite Islam, Sufism, and modern Islam. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LIBERATION THEOLOGIES ***** This course seeks to acquaint students with examples of liberation theology, as they relate to the following issues: racism, sexism, classism, and environmental destruction. Attention is given to the context, construction, form, and aims of Latin American liberation theology, Black theology, Feminist theology, and Theology in the Intersections. Offered with additional work as RELI 548. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE BIBLE IN WESTERN TRADITION ***** Explores multiple roles the Bible has played in Western culture. Emphasis will be on the Bible in media history, as generator of the artistic imagination and as catalyst of ideas and as shaper of religious and political history. ***** Also offered as HUMA 107. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WHO IS (NOT) A JEW? ***** Explore problems with identity--ethnic, political, spiritual --in the case of the other Jew. Consider themes of antisemitism and philo-semitism, insider and outsider, tradition and innovation. Examine competing views purveyed through diverse media such as literature, film, art, and music. Selected texts from St. Paul, Shakespeare, Dickens, Marx, George Eliot, Freud, Chagall, Cynthia Ozick, Bob Dylan, and Woody Allen. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM ***** Post-biblical Judaism reflected in ancient rabbinical (legal space and non-legal) literature, feminism, medieval Jewish philosophy with special emphasis on Maimonides, and modern developments such as Hasidism, Musar, liberal Judaism, and Zionism. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ETHICS IN JUDAISM ***** What-if anything-is right, good, and just about our intentions and actions? The course surveys urgent questions raised in Jewish philosophy concerning law, morality, and politics. Topics include freedom and frailty, gender and government, emotions and reasons, suffering and hope. Readings in translation ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary writings. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD ***** This course will examine the life of the Prophet Muhammad, focusing on its significance for Muslims and for non-Muslims. Readings in The Qur'an, Ibn Hisham, and Haykal. ***** Also offered as ASIA 221. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: QUR'AN AND COMMENTARY ***** Survey of the major themes of the Qur'an and selected types of commentary on it from the early Islamic period until the present day. ***** Instructor(s): Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM: SHI'ISM ***** This course will cover Shi'ism at an introductory level, focusing upon the Imami (Twelve) and Ismai'ili branches of Shi'ism but also including the so-called Ghulat sects. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ENLIGHTMENT OF THE BODY ***** Beginning with a historical survey of the American metaphysical tradition, this course turns to a close study of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, as a unique window into some of the different ways the tradition has appropriated Asian religions, psychological models of the unconscious, and contemporary scientific paradigms. ***** Also offered as ASIA 231. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGIONS OF INDIA ***** This course will survey the religions of India, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Emphasis will be placed on the study of scriptures of these traditions and their continuing global relevance, particularly in American history and culture. ***** Also offered as ASIA 232 and RELI 500 with additional work. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN PHILOSOPHY ***** This course will survey the major schools of Indian philosophy, beginning with the ancient period of Vedic speculation, the formation of the distinct schools during the classical period, and their medieval developments. While the function will be primarily on Hindu and Buddhist schools, Jain philosophy will also be covered. Offered as ASIA 234 or with additional work as RELI 504. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO TAOISM ***** Beginning with a survey of religious trends in ancient China, we will explore the development of the Taoist philosophy. We will then focus on religious Taoism, particularly the mystical and alchemical traditions. We will conclude by examining the fate of Taoism in post-Mao China and its international legacy. ***** Also offered as ASIA 235. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BLACK RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ***** This course will examine 20th century Black religious thought and its influence on Black life and praxis. The course is structured thematically. The themes are: Black Nationalism, Christianity Inspired Praxis, Black Existentialism and Humanism. We will explore central themes such as evil, suffering, scriptural imagery, and liberation. Offered with additional work as RELI 550. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE BOOK OF GENESIS ***** A critical reading in English of the Book of Genesis with close attention to the narrative artistry and theological dimensions of the text. Compares pre-modern modes of interpretation and modern historical criticism. ***** Instructor(s): Henze.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION & REVOLUTION: BLACK THEOLOGY FROM 1969 TO PRESENT ***** Beginning in the 1960s, Black theology combined the best of the Christian Tradition and the energy of Black Power. And, giving religious importance to "Black is beautiful," Black theology changed theological discourse. Through readings and group discussions, students will explore the history, sources, and define elements of Black theology. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDITATION, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC ***** The course moves between Buddhist religious and Western psychological literature, analyzing these as models of human development, as guides to a meditative life or critiques of it, and above all as expressions of deeply rooted cultural proclivities. Reading Freud, Milarepa, Norbu, Obeyesekere, Sutric and Tantric literature, Taylor and Wangyal. ***** Also offered as ASIA 250. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ***** Designed to introduce the student to classic and contemporary texts in the social scientific study of religion. Topics include: mysticism, the social construction of gender, the guru-disciple relationship, secularization, healing traditions East and West, cross-cultural debates. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MYSTICISM ***** Familiarize the student with diverse texts (secular and religious, East and West) found in mystical literature. Emphasis will be placed on psychological, philosophical and comparative methods. Offered with additional work as RELI 582. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE BLACK CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES ***** Much of what has historically taken place within Black communities has been shaped by Black Christian churches. These churches are resources for those interested in understanding religious expression and activism within the Black community. This course provides an introduction into the history, thought, and worship of the major Black denominations. Offered with additional work as RELI 542. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOD IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD ***** Explore forms of theistic religious experience, concentrating on the Western Christian tradition; past and present cultural and philosophical challenges to traditional religious belief; the possibility of Christian faith and the struggle for justice and meaning. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY ***** Multidisciplinary exploration of Christian religious experience, belief, and social reality with examples from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe during the last two thousand years. Themes include search for lasting marks of identity amid change and diversity as well as the issue of Christianity's relation to processes of modernization and secularization. No prior background in religious studies required. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS ***** Theology and church-state issues from 16th-century Reformation to 17th century; medieval background; Luther and Calvin, the Catholic Reformation; religious wars; Protestant orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism; and calls for toleration. ***** Also offered as HIST 286. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT RELIGION ***** Inquiry into the ways which selected Western and Asian philosophers have interpreted God, reality, the moral life and religious experience. Plato, Augustine, Hume and Kant will be compared with thinkers of the Vedic, Jain, Samkhya and Buddhist traditions. ***** Also offered as HUMA 115. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION IN FICTION AND FILM ***** The sacred in interreligious, international, and interdisciplinary encounter, approached via social sciences, theology, theories of literature and mythology. Authors and directors can include Waugh, Mishima, Mann, Proust, Hesse, Percy, Gardner, Updike, Gibson, Sterling, Coupland, Ray, Resnais, Fellini, Bergman, Anderson, Bunnel, and Nutley. Offered with additional work as RELI 514. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NIETZSCHE AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ***** Nietzsche's thought and background: his impact on religious thinkers and cultural critics; his influence on understanding of God, faith, values, society; his connection with Schopenhauer, Wagner, Tillich, Mann, Barth, Buber, Freud, Jung, D.H. Lawrence, Heidegger, antibourgeois cultural criticism, environmentalism, feminism, and postmodernism. ***** Also offered as RELI 515 with additional work. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES ***** Study of early Christianity in the context of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOSPEL AND TRADITION ***** An examination of the Synoptic Problem--one of the major unresolved issues in the study of ancient, Western textual traditions! Exploration of orality, narrativity and memorial arbitration exposes the inadequacies of the present historical model, and suggests a reconceptualization of the issue of the genesis of the Christian foundation stories. Also offered as RELI 506 with additional work. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CANONICAL GOSPELS: NARATIVE AND SOCIAL SETTING ***** Exploration of the narrative patterns and plot constructions of the synoptic gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke), and exploration of the historical circumstances that give rise to each gospel composition. ***** Enrollment limited to 40. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF MARTIN L. KING, JR. AND MALCOLM X ***** Although many figures played a prominent role during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin L. King, Jr. and Malcolm X made unique contributions. Their work sparked important conversation concerning the methods, goals, and consequences of struggle toward liberation. This course examines their religiosity, theological sensibilities, and the major themes which surface in their writings and public work. Offered with additional work as RELI 546. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE INVENTION OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE ***** This interdisciplinary course examines the development of the concept of paganism during the Roman Empire, during the first through seventh centuries A.D. We will examine the mutually tolerant character of the many religions of the Roman world and see how the category of paganism was invented and applied by Christians to all the polytheists of the empire and beyond. ***** Also offered as HIST 316 and CLAS 318. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Maas, McGill.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION IN EASTERN EUROPE UNDER COMMUNISM ***** Interdisciplinary course examining religion, politics, and society in Eastern Europe in the communist period. Topics include: Marxism-Leninism and religion; Soviet atheism; religion and dissident movements; Catholicism and Solidarity in Poland; religious minorities in the region; religion and nationalism, and the role of churches in the collapse of communism. ***** Also offered as SLAV 303. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Knox

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA ***** Examines religious life in Russia since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Emphasis placed on the Russian Orthodox church and its relations with the state and with other religions and denominations. Topics include: the Soviet legacy, orthodoxy and national identity, religious legislation, church-state issues and religious pluralism. ***** Instructor(s): Knox

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM ***** Exploration of the Buddhist traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan, emphasizing the relationship between styles of meditation, their philosophical perspectives, cultural context, and classic Buddhist texts. Offered with additional work as RELI 572.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL WORLD ***** Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious cultural, gendered and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. Offered with additional work as RELI 577. ***** Also offered as SOCI 323, WGST 323, and ASIA 323. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Long

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TANTRA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ***** Examine the development of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric traditions in India, and explore their dissemination to Tibet and East Asia. Focus on the issues of power, gender, and sexuality as negotiated by these traditions. Also explore their modern transmissions to the West. ***** Instructor(s): Gray *****

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TIBETAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I ***** Building upon the foundation of RELI 132 & 133, this course further develops language skills through reading and engagement with a wider range of Tibetan religious and historical literature. This course also explores the history and special features of Tibetan cultures, and encourages conversational ability in modern Tibetan. ***** Also offered as TIBT 324. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gray, Klein Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: ADVANCED TIBETAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE II ***** Continuation of RELI 331. This course further develops language skills and cultural understanding through reading and engagement with a wide range of Tibetan religious and historical literature. It also explores the history and special features of Tibetan cultures and encourages conversational ability in modern Tibetan. ***** Also offered as TIBT 332. ***** Prerequisite(s): RELI 131 or 333. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gray Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION ***** An overview of the basic approaches in the psychological understanding of religious belief and practice. Topics to be addressed in religious systems East and West include: sex, religious experience, ritual, myth, saintliness, guilt, God and meditation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE CHURCH OF AFRICA ***** A reading course designed to examine Christianity in Africa. Course materials and readings will address the development of the church from the Patristic era to the present, paying attention to theological developments, missionization, colonialism, nationalism, prophetic movements, race relations, the role of women, and social issues. Offered with additional work as RELI 540. ***** Enrollment limited to 65. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEOLOGY IN AFRICA ***** Introductory readings to theological thinking in Africa from the Patristic period to the present. Course will address methodological issues as well as constructive theological work on inculturation and liberation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA ***** Discusses new religious movements and the religious, sociological, and political factors leading to their rise, also missionary and colonial reactions to them. Examines their relationship to indigenous religions, political praxis, their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and economic marginality. ***** Also offered as ANTH 343. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN AFRICA ***** This course will focus upon the history and conflict of Christianity and Islam in Africa, with emphasis placed upon indigenous African developments, cultural and artistic themes, and conversion narratives as well as exploring the co-existence and conflict of the two major faiths of the continent. ***** Offered with additional work as RELI 536. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba, Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SACRED SCRIPTURES IN MONOTHEISTIC FAITHS ***** This course will examine the approaches to Sacred Scriptures (the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur'an) in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will discuss themes of holy language and translation, authority, written and oral traditions, prophecy and scriptural commentary. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook, Kaplan, Kelber

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JIHAD AND THE END OF THE WORLD ***** The course will explore the connections between Jihad (both aggressive and non-aggressive) and apocalyptic beliefs in the Muslim tradition from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the present day. Readings from the Qur'an, Bukhari, Ayatullah al-Khumayni, and Sayyid Qutb. ***** Instructor(s): Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ASIAN APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENTS ***** This course will focus upon the rich and neglected apocalyptic and millenarian tradition of Asia, discussing Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroasterianism, Manichaeism and Eastern Christianity as each of these faiths interact with and react to each other. Readings will be from scriptures and translations covering approximately the period between the first and nineteenth centuries. ***** Also offered as ASIA 354. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTH ASIA ***** The course will explore connections between religion and social and historical change in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia, with a focus on Hindu, Buddhist and Shia Muslim communities in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Particular attention will be given to issues of religious identity and inter-religious conflict. ***** Also offered as ASIA 355. ***** Not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAJOR ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAM ***** This course will focus on the major issues confronting contemporary Islam including Islamic unity, the place of the Qur'an and traditions, human rights, Islamic feminism, da'wa, education, science and Islam, globalization and medical ethics. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ORIENTAL RENAISSANCE ***** This course will explore the European and American encounters with India from 17th-century France to 20th-century America. Particular attention will be given to the translation of texts, the English and German Roman traditions, the depth psychology of C.G. Jung, and the American New Age. ***** Also offered as ASIA 361. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL ***** The history of mysticism is marked by symbolic systems and ritual practices suffused with erotic and ethical paradoxes. This course examines such themes in a wide variety of historical contexts, from Plato's dialogues and Blake's poetry to Christian mysticism, Hindu, and Buddhist Tantric traditions, and the modern study of religion. ***** Also offered as ASIA 363. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHINESE MYSTICISM AND MEDITATION ***** The course will investigate the major mystical and meditative traditions in Taoism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism. Focus will be placed upon the inner and outer traditions of Taoist alchemy, Buddhist meditation traditions (primarily Chan/Zen and Pure Land techniques), and the influence of these traditions upon Chinese intellectual discourse and the creative arts. ***** Also offered as ASIA 365. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICINE, MEANING, & MORALITY ***** Introduce students to the medical humanities -- a relatively new field which addresses moral, legal, spiritual and religious problems spawned by the rise of high-tech medicine and high-stakes biomedical research. Materials include clinical case studies, film, and reader's theatre as well as historical, philosophical, literary, and theological writings. ***** Also offered as RELI 542. ***** Enrollment limited to 50. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cole

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT ***** What is the role of God and spirituality in the modern world? How do modern Jewish thinkers reinterpret traditional religious concepts? Explore debates on textual criticism, historical representation, existentialism, and political theology in writings by Spinoza, Buber, Rosenzweig, Kook, Levinas, and Adler. Offered with additional work as RELI 561. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ***** A survey of the Dead Sea Scrolls as a window into the Second Temple period. A close reading of the scrolls will lead to a discussion of the theological and historical issues of the time, a period pivotal for the formation of Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEATH & DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE ***** Death, immortality, resurrection, grief and mourning in selected texts and films of Western and Asian religious traditions, and modern and postmodern literature. Readings from the Bible, Plato, Augustine, Pascal, St. Theresa of Avila, the Upanishads, selected Buddhist texts and the works of Tolstoy, Rilke, Kafka, and Celan, and selected science fiction. Offered with additional work as RELI 591. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION, ASCETICISM, AND THE BODY ***** Explores interpretations of the body in selected religious traditions in the context of contemporary analyses of corporeality. Includes the theological meanings of pain, suffering, self-denial and renunciation of the world. Offered with additional work as RELI 596. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EGOISM, ALTRUISM AND RELIGION ***** Consider origins and contemporary manifestations of self-love and other-regarding love from biological, philosophical, psychological and social perspectives. Relation of religious beliefs and practices to empathy, sympathy and formation of the self. Offered with additional work as RELI 599. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** No description. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** No description. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: READINGS IN SANSKRIT TEXTS ***** This course will involve intensive reading of classical Sanskrit texts, in order to develop mastery of the language, building from the foundation of first year Sanskrit. We will read texts from several genres of literature, such as epics, story collections, and sutras. ***** Prerequisite(s): SANS 302. ***** Instructor(s): Gray. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APOCALYPSE THEN AND NOW ***** A close reading and discussion of three apocalypses from the biblical period: 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, and Revelation. Concludes with a discussion of contemporary forms of apocalypticism. Offered with additional work as RELI 510. ***** Instructor(s): Henze.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICAN MYTHS & RITUALS ***** Explore and analyze specific myths and rituals which provide legitimation for community ceremonies and which serve as basis for the negotiation of power and ideology for members within that community. Readings from classic theorist: Gennap & Turner; and contemporary theorists: Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff and Ray. ***** Also offered as ANTH 423. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AFRICA ***** Explores religion and politics in Africa focusing on indigenous religions, Christianity, Islam, etc. Readings highlight historical developments, key documents in religion and politics, contemporary issues such as: religious freedom, separation of religion and politics, human rights, violence, race, gender, class, and the role of religion in reconstruction of public praxis. Offered with additional work as RELI 534. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA ***** Analysis of the religious imagination and gender issues in postcolonial literature in Africa focusing on Islam, Christianity, indigenous religions and African Initiated Churches. Religious and gender issues addressed include identity crises, power, class of cultures, modernity, cosmology, community, and socio-religious conflicts in a postcolonial world. ***** Offered with additional work as RELI 538. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEPARTMENT SEMINAR ***** The team-taught Department Seminar critically examines the methodological questions and interpretive paradigms that have been central to the academic study of religion. Philosophical, ethical, textual, psychological, comparative and gender issues, among others, will be considered. Instructors and topics vary. Mandatory for graduate students; majors by invitation. Offered with additional work as RELI 529. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES ***** A survey of the historical development of the psychology of religion and its conversation with theology, comparative studies, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology. Topics include: mysticism, eroticism, conversion, feminism, psychobiography. Examples drawn from a variety of religious traditions. Readings include: Freud, Jung, Tillich, Erikson, Kristeva, Kakar. Offered with additional work as RELI 584. ***** Permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISLAM'S MYSTICAL AND ESOTERIC TRADITION ***** Explores the ascetic and Sufi aspects of Islam from the middle Islamic period until the present day. Readings from al-Ghazali, Ibn al-Arabi, Sa'di, Hafiz and Rumi. ***** Instructor(s): Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POPULAR RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST ***** This course will examine the popular religion in the Middle East from Late Antiquity until the 19th century, focusing on healing practices, astrology, protection, amulets, seasoned/life-cycle rituals, and other popular beliefs common to Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Offered with additional work as RELI 525. ***** Also offered as ASIA 441. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAIMONIDES "GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED" ***** This course will closely read the classic text of Judeo- Muslim thought, Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed, in its historical philosophical and literary context. It will draw upon additional Jewish and Muslim sources as well. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY ***** Modern thought on meaning, direction of history; roots in eschatology, Augustine; flowering in progress, historicism: Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Troeltsch, Spengler, Heidegger, Toynbee; cultural echo (de Chirico, Proust, Mann, Robbe-Grillet, Bu^uel, Bergman, Fellini). Offered with additional work as RELI 517. ***** Also offered as HIST 451. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF WESTERN CHRISTIANITY: REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT ***** Spirituality, sociopolitical movements, and intellectual life in the West. Includes Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, Barth, C.S. Lewis, Tillich, Marx, Nietzsche, and Jung. Offered with additional work as RELI 520. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERNITY, ANTI- & POSTMODERNITY ***** Modernity, Antimodernity, & Postmodernity as Styles of Religiosity. Exploration of the problem of defining "modernity" and concepts. Includes contemporary sociological, political, and cultural theory (e.g. Baudrillrad) in connection with typologies of religious experience and grouping from mainline through New Age. Offered with additional work as RELI 519. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICAL ETHICS & AMERICAN VALUES I ***** Readings and discussion of the principles and priorities of medical ethics, with attention to historical development. Offered with additional work as RELI 543. Taught in conjunction with University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public Health. Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Reiser

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MEDICAL ETHICS-AMERICAN VALUES II ***** Continuation of RELI 462, with attention to clinical experience. Offered with additional work as RELI 544. Taught in conjunction with University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public Health. Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates. ***** Prerequisite(s): RELI 462. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Reiser

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL PROBLEMS: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION ***** This seminar treats select advanced topics in the philosophy of religion. Since the topic changes regularly, the course may be repeated for credit. Spring 2005 topic: divine transcendence and immanence in continental philosophy. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan *****

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GERMAN-JEWISH IDEALISM AND ITS CRITICS ***** From the 18th century until 1933, writers imagined a symbiosis of Judaic and German philosophical and cultural ideas. Were they tragically deluded or guardedly optimistic? Discuss skepticism, romanticism, historicism, ethical monotheism, critical theory, and neo-conservatism. Readings selected from Mendelssohn, Spinoza, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Scholem, Benjamin, Arendt, and Strauss. Also offered with additional work as RELI 568. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUDDHIST WISDOM TEXTS ***** Indo-Tibetan analyses of the mind and its functions, especially differing views on the role of reasoning and the nature of the "ultimate" in major philosophical schools of Tibet and India. Offered with additional credit as RELI 570. ***** Instructor(s): Klein. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saints, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationship to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. Offered with additional work as RELI 580. ***** Also offered as WGST 470. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal; Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGIONS OF INDIA ***** Graduate version of ASIA 232 and RELI 232. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ORIENTAL RENAISSANCE ***** This course will explore the European and American encounters with India from 17th-century France to twentieth-century America. Particular attention will be given to the translation of Sanskrit texts, the English and German Romantic traditions, the depth psychology of C.G. Jung, and the American New Age. Graduate version of RELI 361 and ASIA 361. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO TAOISM ***** Graduate version of RELI 235. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN PHILOSOPHY ***** Graduate version of RELI 234 and ASIA 234. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOSPEL AND TRADITION ***** Graduate version of RELI 308. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEW TESTAMENT & HERMENEUTICS ***** Models of Christian Origins: Modernity's perception of Early Christianity from the perspectives of methodology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of history. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kelber

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APOCALYPSE THEN AND NOW ***** Graduate version of RELI 410. ***** Instructor(s): Henze.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION IN FICTION AND FILM ***** Graduate version of RELI 294. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NIETZSCHE & RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ***** Graduate version of RELI 301 ***** Instructor(s): Stroup.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY ***** Graduate version of RELI 451 and HIST 451. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERNITY, ANTIMODERNITY & POSTMODERNITY AS STYLES OF RELIGIOSITY ***** Graduate version of RELI 457. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF WESTERN CHRISTIANITY: REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT ***** Graduate version of RELI 456. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISLAM'S MYSTICAL AND ESOTERIC TRADITION ***** Graduate version of RELI 440. ***** Instructor(s): Cook.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** No description Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** No description. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POPULAR RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST ***** Graduate version of RELI 441. ***** Also offered as ASIA 441. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TANTRA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ***** Examine the development of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric traditions in India, and explore their dissemination to Tibet and East Asia. Focus on the issues of power, gender, and sexuality as negotiated by these traditions. Also explore their modern transmissions to the West. ***** Instructor(s): Gray *****

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEPARTMENT SEMINAR ***** Graduate version of RELI 429. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: READINGS IN SANSKRIT TEXTS ***** Graduate version of RELI 403. ***** Prerequisite(s): SANS 302. ***** Instructor(s): Gray

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TIBETAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ***** Graduate version of RELI 331. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TIBETAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II ***** Graduate version of RELI 332 and TIBT 332. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TIBETAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE ***** Graduate version of RELI 132, 133 and TIBT 133. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN AFRICA ***** Graduate version of RELI 348. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba, Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICAN MYTHS AND RITUALS ***** Graduate version of RELI 423. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA ***** Graduate version of RELI 426. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE CHURCH OF AFRICA ***** Graduate version of RELI 338. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICINE, MEANING, & MORALITY ***** Introduce students to the medical humanities -- a relaively new field which addresses moral, legal, spiritual and religious probles spawned by the rise of high-tech medicine and high-stakes biomedical research. Materials include clinical case studies, film, and reader's theatre as well as historical, philosophical, literary, and theological writings. ***** Also offered as RELI 370. ***** Enrollment limited to 50. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cole

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICAL ETHICS & AMERICAN VALUES I ***** Graduate version of RELI 462. Taught in conjunction with University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public Health. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Reiser

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MEDICAL ETHICS & AMERICAN VALUES II ***** Graduate version of RELI 463. Taught in conjunction with University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public Health. Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Reiser

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF MARTIN L. KING, JR. AND MALCOLM X ***** Graduate version of RELI 312. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION & REVOLUTION: BLACK THEOLOGY FROM 1969 TO PRESENT ***** Graduate version of RELI 247. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LIBERATION THEOLOGIES ***** Graduate version of RELI 158. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BLACK RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ***** Graduate version of RELI 240. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Pinn

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ***** Graduate version of RELI 383. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE BIBLE AND ITS INTERPRETERS ***** Graduate version of RELI 122. ***** Instructor(s): Henze

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT ***** Graduate version of RELI 371. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION AND ASCETICISM ***** Graduate version of RELI 395. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAIMONIDES "GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED" ***** Graduate version of RELI 445. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cook

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL PROBLEMS: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION ***** This seminar treats select advanced topics in the philosophy of religion. Since the topic changes regularly, the course may be repeated for credit. Spring 2005 topic: divine transcendence and immanence in continental philosophy. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan *****

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GERMAN-JEWISH IDEALISM AND ITS CRITICS ***** Graduate version of RELI 468. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUDDHIST WISDOM TEXTS ***** Graduate version of RELI 470. ***** Instructor(s): Klein. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM ***** Graduate version of RELI 322. ***** Instructor(s): Klein.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER, AND THE SOCIAL WORLD ***** Graduate Version of RELI 323. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Long

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** Graduate version of RELI 480. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal, Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MYSTICISM ***** Graduate version of RELI 262. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES ***** Graduate version of RELI 430. ***** Instructor(s): Parsons

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOD, TIME AND HISTORY ***** Graduate version of RELI 123. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Henze, Maas

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEATH AND DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE ***** Graduate version of RELI 391. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOD AND POSTMODERNISM ***** Examination of the meanings of postmodernism and their implications for concepts of God, faith, and religious experience. Includes Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida, Kristeva, Jean-Luc Marion, and selected radical orthodox thinkers. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RELIGION, ASCETICISM AND THE BODY ***** Graduate version of RELI 395. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EGOISM, ALTRUISM AND THE POSTMODERN SELF ***** Graduate version of RELI 397. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: GRADUATE RESEARCH Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 9

Description: RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** No description. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.