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2021-2022 Catalog > Course Descriptions > RELS - Religious Studies

RELS - Religious Studies

RELS 110 Introduction to Native American Religions
RELS 130 Judaism From Exile to Diaspora
RELS 145 Introduction to American Religion
RELS 147 "Cults" and "Sects": New Religious Movements in the Americas
RELS 150 Introduction to Islam
RELS 155 Islam and the West
RELS 160 How to Live and Die Well in Buddhist Traditions
RELS 167 Zen
RELS 168 Buddhisms of the Silk Road
RELS 190 History of Early Christianity
RELS 197 Independent Study
RELS 203 Food and Religion: When Eating is Believing
RELS 205 Holy Sh*t!: Engaging the Materiality of Religion
RELS 206 Jerusalem: Holy City
RELS 214 Medicine, Magic, Miracle: Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean
RELS 215 Shamans, Sages, and Spirits in East Asia
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 Revolution
RELS 242 Environmental Ethics and Religion
RELS 243 Iberia: Land of Three Religions
RELS 244 Islamophobia
RELS 245 African American Religious Traditions
RELS 247 Otherworldly Journeys
RELS 248 Religion in Los Angeles
RELS 250 Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 253 Religion, Science, and the Natural World in Early Modern Europe
RELS 254 Muslim Bodies: Islam, Gender, and Health
RELS 255 Badly Behaving Bible
RELS 256 Borderland Buddhisms: Religion in Tibet and the Himalayas
RELS 257 History of Anti-Semitism
RELS 258 Magic, Morality, and Modernity in China
RELS 259 Race and Religion
RELS 261 Between Empire and Appropriation: Buddhism in the Modern World
RELS 265 Death, Dying, and Afterlife in the Ancient Mediterranean World
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 278 Islamic Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
RELS 281 The Religious Right
RELS 290 Banned Books: Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha
RELS 295 Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 297 Independent Study
RELS 302 Spirit Possession
RELS 335 Downloading Deities, Mediating Meditation, Streaming Spirits: Religion and Media in Asia
RELS 351 "Good" Sex: History of Christian Sexual Ethics
RELS 395 Special Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 397 Independent Study
RELS 490 Senior Seminar
RELS 497 Independent Study
RELS 499 Honors

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