Religion

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity
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This course traces the emergence of the traditions we now call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: their first communities, texts, images, and values. Students will learn to examine their histories critically, identify patterns across traditions, uncover the way these traditions shaped one another, trace the developments of beliefs and practices from their earlier forms, and analyze the social and political factors that informed these developments.
Fee: $250.00
Instructor: Moulie Vidas
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Semester Dates: 9/3/2026 - 12/3/2026
Times: 2:25 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 24
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Religion and its Modern Critics
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The most penetrating critiques of religion have the power to challenge our whole way of being and are often just as unsettling to atheists as to believers. After all, religions are more than just sets of beliefs - they are complex weaves of values, practices, narratives, social structures, and more - which tend to leave their stamp long after people have deserted their explicit creeds. This course explores some of the key critiques of Christianity - and Christian-moulded culture - to emerge in post-Enlightenment Europe, and will involve opening ourselves up to the painfully sharp critical scalpels of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Kafka, and others.
Fee: $250.00
Instructor: Patrick Haley
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Semester Dates: 9/2/2026 - 12/7/2026
Times: 9:35 AM - 10:25 AM
Sessions: 24
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The Buddhist World of Thought and Practice
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An introduction to the thought and history of Buddhism. Emphasis is upon the beginnings of the religion in India, the interaction between Buddhism and the various cultures of Asia, basic schools of Buddhist religious philosophy, the relationship between thought and practice, and the place of Buddhism in the modern world. Two lectures, one preceptorial.
Fee: $250.00
Instructor: Deo Sharma
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Semester Dates: 9/3/2026 - 12/3/2026
Times: 1:20 PM - 2:10 PM
Sessions: 24
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The Religions of China
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A thematic introduction to Chinese religion, ranging from ancient to contemporary. The first half focuses on classics of Chinese philosophy (Book of Changes, Analects of Confucius, Daoist classics, etc.). The second half utilizes journalism, ethnography, films, social media, and author interviews to consider contemporary China, popular movements, state control of religion, cosmology, gods, saints, divination, gender, and ritual.
Fee: $250.00
Instructor: James Julian Wilcox Butterfield
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Semester Dates: 9/2/2026 - 12/7/2026
Times: 12:15 PM - 1:05 PM
Sessions: 24
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