Law and Religion
What is law? What is religion? How are they related? This class will consider the intersection of law and religion across time and space using literary, historical, anthropological, and theological/philosophical resources.
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 is law? What is religion? How are they related? This class will consider the intersection of law and religion across time and space using literary, historical, anthropological, and theological/philosophical resources.
This course provides an introduction to the early development of Chinese thought, concentrating on early debates over human nature and the best practices of self-cultivation, the general nature of the cosmos and the human role in it, and the proper ordering of society.
This course explores how ancient Indians answered these questions in the Mahābhārata, a foundational text of Indian civilization.
This course asks what superheroes can tell us about religion, spirituality, and science—as well as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and class and age—in American culture.