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 light …
This individualized graduate tutorial covers some of the most important authors and developments in decolonial studies, with particular attention to their relevance and intersection with religious studies. The goal of …
Tutorial introducing graduate students to advanced scholarly inquiry into the history of the category of "peace" from Greco-Roman antiquity until today, and its associated and secondary literature.
This tutorial, the third in a sequence on theopolitical thought in Modern Judaism, will focus on 20th-century Jewish philosophers, especially Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, and Franz Rosenzweig. Their …
This tutorial will examine the making of gender in Buddhist practice across Asia. We will interweave discussions in three regions of Asia: We will read historical texts on men, women, …
This individualized tutorial will introduce graduate students to some of the major Roman Catholic documents and theologians of/following the Second Vatican Council, with coverage of a variety of themes (including …
Modern thought has been captivated by reflection on the problem of evil. This tutorial studies modern thinkers' efforts to understand evil, to help us understand evil and to understand the …
This reading course introduces students to the medieval Hebrew literary tradition and the distinctive linguistic features of Hebrew in this period. The texts under consideration will vary by semester. Scholarly …
In the academic study of Christian thought, ¿liberation theology¿ encompasses scholarship that ties reflection on God, Jesus of Nazareth, human beings, creation, the Holy Spirit, and ethics to analyses of …
This interdisciplinary research collaboration explores religious ways of sensing and sense-making. In recent decades, cultural anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, literature, and religious studies, among others, have taken a sensory turn, …
The course explores multiple theoretical and methodological scales, ranging from classical legal interpretation to affect theory, and from ethnographic approaches to intellectual history. The rationale for this tutorial is to …
This tutorial examines Black Religious Studies and Black Studies scholarship that utilizes apocalyptic ideas to analyze Black religion, thought, politics, culture, and metaphysics.
This tutorial examines icon and their position in Christian practice and theology, with an emphasis on Eastern Christian traditions (Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East). The tutorial will …
Students learn to analyze and interpret ancient rabbinic texts (c. 200-600 CE) in order to discern theological commitments and ethical instructions. The task is complicated by the fact that rabbinic …
This explores Tibetan Buddhist meditation in the Dzokchen curriculum. It is structured by traditional categories, with each interpreted using the Generative Contemplation theoretical framework. This view explores meditation as a …
This tutorial investigates the ethical dimensions of colonialism, neocolonialism, and resistance in Latin America. Through foundational and contemporary sources -- including Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, and feminist voices -- students will analyze …
This individualized graduate tutorial provides an introduction to the relationship between Religion and Poetry across a number of traditions, exploring the concept of "poetic knowledge" and the relationship between poetry …
This is an advanced graduate seminar meant to acquaint graduate students with contemporary work on political theology in the larger field of religious thought. We will study several major contemporary …
The focus for our seminar is Mormonism, meaning, primarily, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon body. The tutorial allows graduate students to move beyond the …
Research on problems leading to a master's thesis.