This course looks to understand who held religious power between the years 400-1500. We will look at the papal church, then at saints, monks and other ascetics and visionaries who had charismatic power, as well as scholars and mystics, kings, popes, and others.
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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.
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This course surveys the historical development of Buddhist philosophy in India and how it has shaped the ideas of self, reality, reasoning, knowledge, belief, conduct, and liberation.
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This course investigates these divergent accounts of buddhahood, asking how Buddhists across time and space have understood what it means to be a buddha.
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Tao Yuanming (365–427AD) is one of the most recognized Chinese poets in the world. This discussion-oriented course engages in a close reading of Tao’s poetry with an eye toward questions such as happiness, grief, and mortality.
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This course will center around the close reading of Augustine’s , attending to the text both in its historical contexts and its reception and influence.
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This course is an invitation to think deeply together about what we might mean by religion through thoughtful encounters with some intriguing and provocative writing about religious stuff, with a view to helping you to find your own voice in this conversation.
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This course develops graduate students’ teaching philosophies and skills in the classroom.
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