Chair: Christopher White;

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

Assistant Professor: Kirsten Wesselhoeft;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Agnes Veto;

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Klaus Yoder;

Adjunct Instructor: Gaurika Mehta.

^a On leave 2022/23, first semester

Programs

Major

• •  Religion Major

Correlate Sequence in Religion

• •  Religion Correlate Sequence

Courses

Religion: I. Introductory

• •  RELI 100 - Introduction to American Studies
• •  RELI 102 - Religion, Media & American Popular Culture
• •  RELI 103 - How We Got Here
• •  RELI 104 - Religion, Prisons, and the Civil Rights Movement
• •  RELI 107 - Inner Paths: Religion and Contemplative Consciousness
• •  RELI 110 - Great Understanding is Broad & Unhurried: Sage Voices from China’s Past and Rethinking the Good Life
• •  RELI 112 - An Introduction to Islam
• •  RELI 140 - China Reimagined
• •  RELI 149 - Unlocking the Bible: Traditional and Radical Readings
• •  RELI 150 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• •  RELI 152 - Religions of Asia
• •  RELI 160 - Uncertainty, Probability and Spirituality: Physics in Popular Culture
• •  RELI 181 - Radical Evil: The History of Wickedness in the West
• •  RELI 182 - Climate Change and the Apocalypse

Religion: II. Intermediate

• •  RELI 200 - Regarding Religion
• •  RELI 201 - Jewish Textuality
• •  RELI 207 - Christian Ethics and Modern Society
• •  RELI 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
• •  RELI 218 - Spiritual Seekers in American History & Culture 1880-2008
• •  RELI 219 - New and Alternative Religious Movements in the United States
• •  RELI 222 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islamic Spaces
• •  RELI 225 - Ethnography of Religion
• •  RELI 231 - Hindu Traditions
• •  RELI 233 - The Buddha in the World
• •  RELI 235 - Religion in China
• •  RELI 239 - Six Systems of Meditation
• •  RELI 241 - The Land of Israel Before the State of Israel
• •  RELI 242 - From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism
• •  RELI 249 - Unlocking the Bible
• •  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 256 - Theology of the Prison
• •  RELI 264 - Controversies in Science, Technology & Religion
• •  RELI 280 - The Devil You Know: Personifying Evil in the West
• •  RELI 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  RELI 298 - Independent Work

Religion: III. Advanced

• •  RELI 300 - Senior Seminar
• •  RELI 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  RELI 302 - Intensive in Religion, Media & Pop Culture
• •  RELI 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• •  RELI 345 - Violent Frontiers: Colonialism and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
• •  RELI 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion
• •  RELI 355 - The Politics of Sacred Space
• •  RELI 360 - Religion, Sex, and the Modern State
• •  RELI 375 - The I-Ching and the Dao
• •  RELI 380 - Religion, Anti-Science, Public Health & Pandemic
• •  RELI 381 - Carceral Christianity—Policing and Religion in the USA
• •  RELI 382 - Islam, Race, and Gender in French Intellectual Culture
• •  RELI 385 - Asian Healing Traditions
• •  RELI 399 - Senior Independent Work