Chair: Jonathon S. Kahn;

Professors: Marc Michael Epstein^a;

Associate Professors: E.H. Rick Jarow, Jonathon S. Kahn, Lynn R. LiDonnici, Michael Walsh, Christopher White;

Post Doctoral Fellow: Rose Muravchick;

Adjunct Instructor: Agnes Veto.

^a On leave 2014/15, first semester

Programs

Major

• •  Religion Major

Correlate Sequence in Religion

• •  Religion Correlate Sequence

Courses

Religion: I. Introductory

• •  RELI 100 - Introduction to American Studies
• •  RELI 101 - An Examined Life: Religious Approaches to Enduring Questions
• •  RELI 102 - Religion, Media & American Popular Culture
• •  RELI 104 - Religion, Prisons, and the Civil Rights Movement
• •  RELI 106 - The Confessions of St. Augustine
• •  RELI 107 - Inner Paths: Religion and Contemplative Consciousness
• •  RELI 120 - God
• •  RELI 150 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• •  RELI 152 - Religions of Asia
• •  RELI 180 - Islamic Traditions
• •  RELI 189 - The Bible as Book

Religion: II. Intermediate

• •  RELI 200 - Regarding Religion
• •  RELI 204 - Islam in America
• •  RELI 205 - Religion and Its Critics
• •  RELI 206 - Social Change in the Black and Latino Communities
• •  RELI 207 - Christian Ethics and Modern Society
• •  RELI 210 - Secularism and Its Discontents
• •  RELI 211 - Religions of the Oppressed and Third-World Liberation Movements
• •  RELI 212 - Western Esotericism
• •  RELI 213 - The Experience of Freedom
• •  RELI 215 - Religion, Art and Politics
• •  RELI 216 - Israeli Media
• •  RELI 217 - Film, Fiction and the Construction of Identity – Israeli and Palestinian Voices
• •  RELI 218 - Spiritual Seekers in American History & Culture 1880-2008
• •  RELI 219 - New and Alternative Religious Movements in the United States
• •  RELI 220 - Text and Traditions
• •  RELI 221 - Voices from Modern Israel
• •  RELI 222 - Gender and Islam: Religious Authority, Feminisms, and The Muslim Body
• •  RELI 231 - Hindu Traditions
• •  RELI 233 - The Buddha in the World
• •  RELI 234 - Creole Religions of the Caribbean
• •  RELI 235 - Religion in China
• •  RELI 240 - The World of the Rabbis
• •  RELI 243 - Islamic Traditions
• •  RELI 250 - Across Religious Boundaries: Understanding Differences
• •  RELI 255 - Western Mystical Traditions
• •  RELI 266 - Religion in America
• •  RELI 267 - Religion, Culture and Society
• •  RELI 268 - Sociology of Black Religion
• •  RELI 280 - Queering Judaism: Contemporary Issues
• •  RELI 281 - Beauty, Aesthetics, and Representation in Islamic Culture
• •  RELI 290 - Field Work
• •  RELI 298 - Independent Work

Religion: III. Advanced

• •  RELI 300 - Senior Seminar
• •  RELI 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  RELI 310 - Politics and Religion: Tradition and Modernization in the Third World
• •  RELI 315 - Religion and American Culture
• •  RELI 320 - Studies in Sacred Texts
• •  RELI 321 - Cult Archaeology, Fantastic Frauds, and Pseudoscientific Beliefs About the Past
• •  RELI 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• •  RELI 340 - Women in the Classical Jewish Tradition
• •  RELI 341 - The Goddess Traditions of India, China and Tibet
• •  RELI 345 - Violent Frontiers: Colonialism and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
• •  RELI 346 - Studies in Jewish Thought and History
• •  RELI 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion
• •  RELI 355 - The Politics of Sacred Space
• •  RELI 381 - The Bible as Book: Manuscript and Printed Editions
• •  RELI 385 - Asian Healing Traditions
• •  RELI 399 - Senior Independent Work