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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2025
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RELI 224 002 (CRN: 26852)
RACE AND RELIGION
Long Title: RACE AND RELIGION
Department: Religion
Instructor: Kranz, Mendel
Meeting: 1:00PM - 2:15PM TR (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 25
Section Enrolled: 0
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 25
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 198)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 14-NOV-2024 4:57PM
Final Exam: Take-Home Exam
Description: There is no shortage of critical engagement with the idea of race and its role in shaping modern history and politics. Rarely, however, do we think about religion as an important part of that story. Economics, public policy, history, literature, and science have all developed various perspectives on this question, but religion is often left aside in these conversations. This course looks closely at the intersection of race and religion and the ways these two ideas have been deeply entangled in the modern and even ancient worlds. We will ask whether it makes sense to talk about race in antiquity and the Middle Ages, prior to its scientific invention; we will explore the links between race and Christianity; and we will interrogate how various groups, including Jews, Muslims, and Black people understood themselves within the discourses of race and religion. By examining these two ideas in relation to one another, this course offers a richer understanding of the history and evolution of racial ideas and their continued resonance in the present. Cross-list: JWST 224.