We offer graduate courses that focus on a wide variety of topics and themes that emphasize the interdisciplinary study of religion. Graduate students in our program have recently explored such diverse topics as the sacred and the profane, extinction, materiality, and superheroes. In our courses, students often work with historical, textual, and ethnographic approaches while exploring how different theoretical and analytical lenses can illuminate particular topics in religious studies.
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What does it mean to interpret religion? In this course we will read and analyze some classic and recent interpretations of religion in order to think about the act of interpretation itself within the context of a conversation about religion that stretches over time and space.
Working through the details of his life, we’ll explore questions of race, poetics, religious freedom, gender and sexuality, disability, irony, and more—all with an eye both to Ali’s status as an American Muslim of world importance and the importance of religion in the postwar US.
This course examines the complicated relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the first seven centuries of the common era.
This course will explore contemporary Muslim religious experiences through fiction written by Muslim authors.
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