HELP Catalogue 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Religion Department Expand All Courses | Print this Page Facebook this Page (opens a new window) Tweet this Page (opens a new window)

Chair: Christopher White;

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

Assistant Professor: Kirsten Wesselhoeft;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Agnes Veto;

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Klaus Yoder;

Postdoctoral Fellow: Nell Hawley.

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 - This Buddhist Life
• •  RELI 110 - Great Understanding is Broad & Unhurried: Sage Voices from China’s Past and Rethinking the Good Life
• •  RELI 111 - Christian Theology and the Body
• •  RELI 112 - An Introduction to Islam
• •  RELI 140 - China Reimagined
• •  RELI 150 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• •  RELI 152 - Buddhists, Daoists, and Confucians
• •  RELI 154 - Jesus: A Radical Life
• •  RELI 160 - Uncertainty, Probability and Spirituality: Physics in Popular Culture
• •  RELI 189 - Trances, Visions, Meditative States and Altered States of Consciousness

Religion: II. Intermediate

• •  RELI 200 - Regarding Religion
• •  RELI 201 - Jewish Textuality
• •  RELI 207 - Christian Ethics and Modern Society
• •  RELI 208 - Religion, Revolution, and Reaction
• •  RELI 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
• •  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 230 - Jewish Law in Action
• •  RELI 233 - The Buddha in the World
• •  RELI 241 - The Land of Israel Before the State of Israel
• •  RELI 242 - From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism
• •  RELI 245 - Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism
• •  RELI 246 - Judaisms
• •  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 282 - Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College
• •  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 315 - Jews, Jewish Identity and the Arts
• •  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 399 - Senior Independent Work

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