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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Religious Studies (RELI)

Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000. This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar (reg@rice.edu).

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some RELI courses.



RELI 111   INTRO TO AFRICAN RELIGIONS               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introductory reading course in the structures of African religions
(indigeous, Christian and Islamic).  Course will include community, cosmology,
ritual, ethical values, magic, witchcraft, contribution to nationalism,
independence, social change and the transplantation of African religions in the
Americas.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 122   INTERPETING THE BIBLE                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Seeks to acquaint students with the principal parts of the Hebrew Bible/Old
Testament and to provide some exposure to the different ways  in which the
Bible has been interpreted, from late Antiquity to modern times.  Compares a
modern-critical reading with early Jewish and Christian, often fanciful,
elaborations of the same biblical tales and and figures.
001 TBA                                 Henze, Matthias           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 241   BOOK OF PSALMS, EXPLORING THE PRAYERS OF Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
In Torah and Prophets, God reaches out to human beings.  In the Psalms, human
beings reach out to God as the human soul extends itself beyond its
confinement.  Psalms thus constitute a revealing portrayal of the human
condition.  Emphasis on the theology and reception history of the Psalter.
Also offered as ANTH 311
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 262   MYSTICISM: TEXTS AND METHODS             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Familiarize the student with diverse texts (secular and religious, East and
West) found in mystical literature.  Emphasis will be placed on psychological,
philosophical and comparative methods.  Offered with additional work as Reli
582.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Parsons, William B.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 270   THE RABBINIC IMAGINATION                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Midrash, the Jewish interpretive process, has been celebrated by literary
critics for its playfulness, enjoyment of ambiguity, and earnest pursuit of
meaning.  Midrash is a fitting theological genre, for it mirrors the complexity
of life.  Exploration of the rich and varied themes of rabbinic literature in
Midrash, Mishnah, and Talmud through careful reading of texts.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 282   INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Multidisciplinary exploration of Christian religious experience, belief, and
social reality with examples from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe during
the last two thousand years.  Themes include search for lasting marks of
identity amid change and diversity as well as the issue of Christianity's
relation to processes of modernization and secularization.  No prior background
in religious studies required.
001 TBA - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM          Bongmba, Elias K.         Enr: 0 Max: NA
                                        Stroup, John M.

RELI 293   PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT RELIGION            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Inquiry into the ways which selected Western and Asian philosophers have
interpreted God, reality, the moral life and religious experience.  Plato,
Augustine, Hume and Kant will be compared with thinkers of the Vedic, Jain,
Samkhya and Buddhist traditions.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Wyschogrod, Edith         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 300   ART AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Art is presented as a way of thinking about reality. Slide-illustrated
lectures will involve visual formulations of :  Origination, history,
 destiny,
society, the individual, sexuality, gender, power, and the end  of the world.
Also offered as HART 300.
001 TBA                                 McEvilley, Thomas         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 302   JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Course examines Judaism and Christianity, and the often conflictual relations
between the two faiths.  It proceeds both historically, tracing their relation
from the split that occurred in the first century CE through the Middle Ages
into the post-holocaust era, and thematically, focusing on the nature of
dialogue, Pharisaism and Christian anti-Pharisaism, Jewish and Christian sexual
ethics, visions of redemption, Jewish responses to incarnation and Christian
mission, medieval disputations between church and synagogue (Barcelona
disputation: 1263), renewal and reform, holocaust, ecumenism.  Lecture and
discussion format.
001 TBA - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM           Kavka, Martin             Enr: 0 Max: 40
                                        Kelber, Werner H.

RELI 307   HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST FOUR  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of early Christianity in the context of ancient Mediterranean
civilizations.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 308   CANONICAL GOSPELS: NARRATIVE AND SOCIAL  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Exploration of the four separate story worlds of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.
The primary objective is to read each gospel as an integral narrative in its
own right.  A secondary objective is to reflect on the historical circumstances
that gave rise to each gospel composition.
001 TBA                                 Kelber, Werner H.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 322   INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Exploration of the Buddhist traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan,
emphasizing the relationship between styles of meditation, their philosophical
perspectives, cultural context, and classic Buddhist texts. Offered with
additional work as Reli 572.
001 TBA                                 Klein, Anne C.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 330   INTRODUCTION TIBETAN LANGUAGE            Credits 1.00  Spring 00
Readings in Tibetan Bon and Buddhist religious texts. Offered with additional
work as Reli 532.
Also offered as TIBT 330
001 TBA - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM         Pietsch, Carola Sigrid    Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 50
003 TBA - TBA                           TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 334   PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Significant contemporary problems examined from a clinical standpoint,
e.g.,ideas of God, evil, anxiety, guilt, and therapeutic process.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 362   ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS                     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explores the moral status of animals, other organisms, and ecosystems from
religious, philosophical, feminist, and scientific perspectives;  Examines
issues such as biodiversity, wilderness preservation, population, and
biotechnology.
001 TBA                                 McKenny, Gerald P.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 364   RELIGION, ETHICS & VIOLENCE              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examines religious and secular efforts to understand, control, and justify
violence.  Attention to nonviolence and "just war" theories in Christianity,
Judaism and Islam, and to realism, international law, moral philosophy, and
feminist and critical theories.  Focus on war, terrorism, genocide and capital
punishment.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 370   DYNAMICS OF CLASSICAL JUDAISM            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introduction to classical Judaism exploring key concepts, themes and
experiences in Jewish thought and life, including covenant, Exodus and
Passover, revelation, commandment, the sanctification of life, and learning as
a sacred endeavor. Readings from Bible, midrash, Biblical commentary, Mishnah
and Talmud, prayerbook, Passover Haggadah, philosophy, and mysticism.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 371   MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
What is the role of God and spirituality in the modern world?  How do modern
Jewish thinkers re-interpret traditional religious concepts?  Explore
philosophical responses to modernity in such thinkers as  Buber, Rosenzweig,
Heschel, Fackenheim, Mordecai Kaplan, Soloveitchik, Leibowitz, Ploskow, and
Adler.  Offered with additional work as Reli 561.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 372   VARIETIES OF JEWISH MYSTICISM            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
What is mysticism and what characterizes mystical experience? What is the
relation between mysticism and language, culture, and everyday religious
practice? The approach to Jewish mysticism will be both historical and
hermeneutical. Prior knowledge of Judism is not necessary.
Prereq- Basic background in religious studies or philosophy.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 374   MYSTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Themes in medieval Islamic and Jewish thought.  "There was a vein of mysticism
running through all of medieval Arabic philosophy." (Israel Efros) Explore the
relationship between mystical and philosophical modes of thought in the works
of medieval Islamic and Jewish thinkers such as Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Ibn Bajja,
Ha-Levi, Ibn Tufayl, al-Ghazzali, Maimonides, and Averroes.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 375   THE QUEST FOR GOD & THE GOOD             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Where is God to be found in human life:  through the intellect or through
experience?  What is the aim of human life, and what is the place of God in the
good life?  Course will provide an introduction to religious thought, exploring
the relationship between God and the good, religion and morality, intellectual
contemplation, religious worship, and moral action.  Thinkers to be studied
include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Maimonides, and Ghazzali.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 391   DEATH & DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Death, immorality, resurrection, grief and mourning in selected texts of
Western and Asian religious traditions, and modern and postmodern literature.
Readings from the Bible, Plato, Augustine, Pascal, St. Theresa of Avila, the
Upanishads, selected Buddhist texts and the works of Tolstoy, Rilke, Kafka,
Dickenson, Goyen, Celan and Jabes.Offered with additional work as Reli 591.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 393   RELIGION, MYTH AND LANGUAGE              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Survey of approaches to myth and language in relation to religious experience
and meaning.  Readings from Feuerbach, Freud, Jung, Tillich, Eliade,
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, James, Dewey, Levi-Strauss, and Mary Douglas.  Offered
with additional work as Reli 593.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 395   RELIGION AND ASCETICISM                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Explores interpretations of the body in selected religious traditions in the
context of contemporary analyses of corporeality.  Topics include the
theological meanings of pain, suffering, self-denial and renunciation of the
world. Offered with additional work as Reli 562.
001 TBA                                 Wyschogrod, Edith         Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 402   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Bongmba, Elias K.         Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
005 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
006 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
007 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
008 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
009 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
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011 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 412   INTRO TO CLASSICAL HEBREW II             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A one-year (two semesters) introduction to Hebrew.  The emphasis is on Biblical
Hebrew (basic grammar and vocabulary), with occasional exercises in modern
Hebrew (reading, speaking, and writing skills).
Also offered as HEBR 412
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Henze, Matthias           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 423   AFRICAN MYTHS & RITUALS                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explore and analyze specific myths and rituals which provide legitimation for
community ceremonies and which serve as basis for the negotiation of power and
ideology for members within that community.  Readings from classic theorist:
Gennap & Turner; and contemporary theorists:  Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff and
Ray.
Also offered as ANTH 423
001 TBA                                 Bongmba, Elias K.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 426   RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A reading and analysis of the religious imagination expressed in selected
African literary works, dealing with Islam, Christianity, and indigenous
religions.  Course will analyze identity crisis for persons and community
implied or explicity stated in selected works.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 430   RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the historical development of the psychology of religion and its
conversation with theology, cooperative the comparative study of religion, and
culture studies.  Topics include:  mysticsm, eroticism, conversion, feminism,
psychobiography.  Examples drawn from a variety of religious traditions.
Readings include:  Freud, Jung, Tillich, Erikson, Kristeva, Kakar.  Offered
with additional work as Reli 584.
001 TBA - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Parsons, William B.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 451   PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Modern thought on the meaning and ultimate direction of history; roots in
eschatology, Augustine, flowering in progress and historicism--e.g., Vico,
Lessing, Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Harnack, Troeltsch, Meinecke,
Spengler, Heidegger, Butterfield, Dawson, Schweitzer, Jaspers, Toynbee.Offered
with additional work as Reli 517.
Also offered as HIST 451
001 TBA                                 Stroup, John M.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 456   FROM REFORMATION SPIRITUALITY TO REVOLUT Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Spirituality, politico-social movements, and intellectual life in the West from
Luther and Calvin to Bonhoeffer, Barth, Tillich, Marx, Nietzsche, and Jung.
Offered with additional work as Reli 520.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 457   MODERNITY, ANTI-MODERNITY & POST-MODERNI Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Problem of defining "modernity"; contemporary sociological and political theory
in connection with forms of religiosity. Offered with additional work as Reli
519.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 463   MEDICAL ETHICS-AMER. VALUES II           Credits 4.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continuation of 462 (prerequisite), with attention to clinical experience.
Permission of instructor required. Offered with additional work as Reli 544.
Taught in conjunction with University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center.
Classes meet at UT School of Public Health.  Intended only highly qualified
undergraduates.
001 TBA                                 Heitman, Elizabeth        Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 470   BUDDHIST WISDOM TEXTS                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Indo-Tibetan anaylses of the mind and its functions, especially differing views
on the role of reasoning and the nature of the "ultimate" in major
philosophical schools of Tibet and India.
Also offered as RELI 570
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 509   NEW TESTAMENT & HERMENEUTICS             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 517   PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 451 and Hist 451.
001 TBA                                 Stroup, John M.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 519   MODERNITY, ANTIMODERNITY & POSTMODERNITY Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
Also offered as RELI 457
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 520   HIST OF WESTERN CHRISTIANITY: REFORMATIO Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 524   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Bongmba, Elias K.         Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
005 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
006 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
007 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
008 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
009 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
010 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
011 TBA                                 Pietsch, Carola Sigrid    Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 532   CLASSICAL & COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN           Credits   Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 330 and Tibt 330.
001 TBA - MW 11:00AM - 12:20PM          Pietsch, Carola Sigrid    Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 Pietsch, Carola Sigrid    Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM         Klein, Anne C.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 537   AFRICAN MYTHS AND RITUALS                Credits   Spring 00
Graduate versionof Reli 423.
001 TBA                                 Bongmba, Elias K.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 541   SEMINAR IN ETHICS                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 544   MED ETHICS & AMER VALUES II              Credits 4.00  Spring 00
 Graduate version of Reli 463. Taught in conjunction with University of
Texas-Houston Health Science Center.  Classes meet at UT School of Public
Health.  Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates.
Prereq- Reli 543 and permission of instructor required.
001 TBA                                 Heitman, Elizabeth        Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 552   SEMINAR IN HISTORY OF RELIGION           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of  Reli 412.
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Henze, Matthias           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 554   INTERPRETING THE BIBLE                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of  Reli 122.
001 TBA                                 Henze, Matthias           Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 559   INTRO HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN CHRISTIA Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Survey of standard literature and main problems in interpretation.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 560   FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL JUDAISM         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An introduction to classical Judaism exploring key concepts, themes and
experiences in Jewish thought and life, including covenant, Exodus and
Passover, revelation, commandment, the sanctification of life, and learning as
a sacred endeavor.  Readings from Bible, midrash, Biblical commentary, Mishnah
and Talmud, prayerbook, Passover Haggadah, philosophy and mysticism.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 561   MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 371.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 562   RELIGION AND ASCETICISM                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Explores interpretations of the body in selected religious traditions in the
context of contemporary analyses of corporeality.  Topics include the
theological meanings of pain, suffering, self-denial and renunciation of the
world.
Also offered as RELI 395
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 564   MYSTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Themes in medieval Islamic and Jewish thought.  "There was a vein of mysticism
running through all of medieval Arabic philosophy." (Israel Efros) Explore the
relationship between mystical and philosophical modes of thought in the works
of medieval Islamic and Jewish thinkers such as Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Ibn Bajja,
Ha-Levi, Ibn Tufayl, al-Ghazzali, Maimonides, and Averroes.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 565   THE QUEST FOR GOD AND THE GOOD           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 375.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 566   THE RABBINIC IMAGINATION                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Midrash, the Jewish interpretive process, has been celebrated by literary
critics for its playfulness, enjoyment of ambiguity, and earnest pursuit of
meaning.  Midrash is a fitting theological genre, for it mirrors the complexity
of life.  Exploration of the rich and varied themes of rabbinic literature in
Midrash, Mishnah, and Talmud through careful reading of texts.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 570   BUDDHIST WISDOM TEXTS                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Indo-Tibetan analyses of the mind and its functions, especially differing views
on the role of reasoning and the nature of the "ultimate" in major
philosophical schools of Tibet and India.
Also offered as RELI 470
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 572   INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 322.
001 TBA                                 Klein, Anne C.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 582   MYSTICISM: TEXTS AND METHODS             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Graduate version of Reli 262.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Parsons, William B.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 584   RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Reli 430.
001 TBA - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Parsons, William B.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 587   BOOK OF PSALMS, EXPLORING THE PRAYERS OF Credits 3.00  Spring 00
In Torah and Prophets, God reaches out to human beings.  In the Psalms, human
beings reach out to God as the human soul extends itself beyond its
confinement.  Psalms thus constitute a revealing portrayal of the human
condition.  Emphasis on the theology and reception history of the Psalter.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 591   DEATH AND DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Death, immortality, resurrection, grief and mourning in selected texts of
Western and Asian religious traditions, and modern and postmodern literature.
Readings from the Bible, Plato, Augustine, Pascal, St. Theresa of Avila, the
Upanishads, selected Buddhist texts and the works of Tolstoy, Rilke, Kafka,
Dickenson, Goyen, Celan and Jabes.
Also offered as RELI 391
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 593   RELIGION, MYTH AND LANGUAGE              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Survey of approaches to myth and language in relation to religious experience
and meaning.  Readings from Feuerbach, Freud, Jung, Tillich, Eliade,
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, James, Dewey, Levi-Strauss, and Mary Douglas.
Also offered as RELI 393
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 596   RELIGION AND ASCETICISM                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
 Explores interpretations of the body in selected religious traditions in
 the
context of contemporary analyses of corporeality. Topics include
 the
theological meanings of pain, suffering, self-denial and
renunciation of the
world. Also offered as RELI 395
001 TBA                                 Wyschogrod, Edith         Enr: 0 Max: NA

RELI 598   KIERKEGAARD & TWENTIETH CENTURY RELIGION Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Inquire into Kierkegaard's interpretation of God, the religious, ethical and
aesthetic stages of existence and the figures of Socrates and Jesus. Impact of
Kierkegaard on 20th century philosophers of religion from Barth to Levinas.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

RELI 800   THESIS RESEARCH                          Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 McKenny, Gerald P.        Enr: 0 Max: NA



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