Chair: Christopher White;

Professors: Marc Michael Epstein, Jonathon S. Kahn, Christopher White;

Associate Professors: E.H. Rick Jarow, Michael Walsh;

Assistant Professor: Kirsten Wesselhoeft^b;

Adjunct Instructors: Agnes Veto, Klaus Yoder.

^b On leave 2018/19, second 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 107 - Inner Paths: Religion and Contemplative Consciousness
• •  RELI 112 - An Introduction to Islam
• •  RELI 150 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• •  RELI 152 - Religions of Asia
• •  RELI 160 - Relatively Uncertain: A History of Physics, Religion and Popular Culture
• •  RELI 180 - Interrogating Religious Extremism
• •  RELI 181 - Imagining China
• •  RELI 182 - Global Christianities
• •  RELI 189 - Religion, Community Organizing, and Movements for Civil Rights

Religion: II. Intermediate

• •  RELI 200 - Regarding Religion
• •  RELI 201 - Jewish Textuality
• •  RELI 205 - Religion and Its Critics
• •  RELI 207 - Christian Ethics and Modern Society
• •  RELI 210 - Secularism and Its Discontents
• •  RELI 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
• •  RELI 213 - The Experience of Freedom
• •  RELI 214 - Italian Folklore: Goddesses, Muses, Saints, and Black Madonnas
• •  RELI 215 - Religion, Art and Politics
• •  RELI 216 - Israeli Media
• •  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 222 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islamic Spaces
• •  RELI 225 - Anthropology of Islam
• •  RELI 231 - Hindu Traditions
• •  RELI 233 - The Buddha in the World
• •  RELI 234 - Creole Religions of the Caribbean
• •  RELI 235 - Religion in China
• •  RELI 243 - Islamic Traditions
• •  RELI 245 - Jewish Traditions
• •  RELI 250 - Across Religious Boundaries: Understanding Differences
• •  RELI 254 - A Hundred Gospels and the Confusing, Conflicted Life of Jesus
• •  RELI 255 - Western Mystical Traditions
• •  RELI 266 - Religion in America
• •  RELI 267 - Religion, Culture and Society
• •  RELI 280 - Christian Theology and the Body
• •  RELI 286 - Advanced Topics in Ethnomusicology: Music and Buddhism
• •  RELI 289 - The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
• •  RELI 290 - Field Work
• •  RELI 298 - Independent Work

Religion: III. Advanced

• •  RELI 300 - Senior Seminar
• •  RELI 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  RELI 315 - Religion and American Culture
• •  RELI 320 - Studies in Sacred Texts
• •  RELI 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• •  RELI 332 - Tantra Seminar
• •  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 375 - The I-Ching: China’s Great Text of Divinatory Wisdom
• •  RELI 385 - Asian Healing Traditions
• •  RELI 387 - Muslim Feminist and Womanist thought and Praxis
• •  RELI 399 - Senior Independent Work