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2018-2019 Catalog > Course Descriptions > RELS - Religious Studies

RELS - Religious Studies

RELS 110 Introduction to Native American Religions
RELS 130 Jewish Communities in Antiquity
RELS 145 Introduction to American Religious Movements
RELS 147 "Cults" and "Sects": New Religious Movements in America
RELS 150 Introduction to Islam
RELS 155 Islam and the West
RELS 160 How to Live and Die Well in Buddhist Traditions
RELS 190 History of Early Christianity
RELS 195 Shamanism and Spirit Possession
RELS 197 Independent Study
RELS 205 Holy Sh*t!: Engaging the Materiality of Religion
RELS 206 Jerusalem: Holy City
RELS 220 Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Critique
RELS 225 Sufism
RELS 228 Chican@ Religious Identities
RELS 230 Religion and Law
RELS 232 Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible
RELS 235 Gods and Goddesses of India
RELS 240 Religion and Social Reform
RELS 242 Environmental Ethics and Religion
RELS 245 African American Religious Traditions
RELS 247 Otherworldly Journeys
RELS 250 Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 255 The Bible and Its Interpreters
RELS 256 Borderland Buddhisms: Religion in Tibet and the Himalayas
RELS 257 History of Anti-Semitism
RELS 260 Buddhist Thought From India to Japan
RELS 261 Contemporary Buddhist Thought
RELS 266 Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism
RELS 270 Islamic Legal and Political Thought
RELS 276 Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific
RELS 277 History of the End of the World
RELS 281 Religion and Politics
RELS 282 "Good" Sex: History of Christian Sexual Ethics
RELS 285 Religious Atheism
RELS 290 Banned Books: Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha
RELS 294 Religious Contemplation and Social Activism
RELS 296 Contemporary Islam in the Modern Middle East
RELS 300 Spiritual But Not Religious?
RELS 305 Islam, Gender and Sexuality
RELS 347 Religious Liberty and the Law
RELS 365 Buddhist Ethics
RELS 370 Death, Dying, and Afterlife in the Ancient Mediterranean World
RELS 397 Independent Study
RELS 490 Senior Seminar
RELS 499 Honors in Religious Studies

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