An advanced graduate class, run tutorial-style, which will acquaint graduate students with core texts, themes, and thinkers in Christian thought.
Examination of a major topic in modern religious thought--e.g., religious imagination, ethical and religious subjectivity, metaphor and religious language, religious and ethical conceptions of love.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Examines ways in which tragedy (and other forms of imaginative literature), scripture and theology, and hermeneutics and criticism portray and reflect on aspects of suffering and evil.
Tutorial on important themes, topics, and context of one or more major Christian Thinkers.
Examination of twentieth-century American religious autobiography.
This one credit seminar introduces students the Scriptural Interpretation and Practice (SIP) program to recent approaches to the comparative study of scriptural sources and scriptural traditions.
Examines current historiographical issues in the interpretation of religion in American history. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
This topical course provides Master's and Doctoral students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in selected, established areas of the department's curriculum.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Islam.
This tutorial is designed to introduce students to the study of Hebrew manuscripts. It provides a foundation for codicology and training in paleographic analysis. The tutorial is ideal for graduate …
In this tutorial, students will work with manuscripts to produce an edition of a Greek text, an English translation of that edition, and a short commentary on the text. Students …
In this tutorial, students will work on developing translation skills: grammar will be reviewed as necessary.
This tutorial constitutes a reading course in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Students will read the original texts and translate them into English, analyzing and interpreting the materials in …
Advanced readings in Arabic philosophical, theological, mystical, and literary texts. Course readings will be in Arabic.
Tutorial on important themes, topics, and figures in religious ethics, both historically and in the present moment.
This tutorial introduces the structure, scope, and contents of the Tibetan-language Buddhist canonical collections. We will read and discuss selections in both English and Tibetan from the 5000 works in …
Advanced readings in Persian philosophical, theological, mystical, and literary texts. Course readings will be in Persian.
This individualized graduate tutorial provides an introduction to the important tradition of Arabic poetry in praise of the prophet Muhammad, surveying both secondary literature & Arabic poetry in the original. …