Who are evangelicals? What do they believe, and how do they behave? Should non-evangelicals be worried about them? This course explores the causes, nature, and implications of evangelical influence through the lenses of history, literature, and religious studies.
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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 explores how ancient Indians answered these questions in the Mahābhārata, a foundational text of Indian civilization.
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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.
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In this course, students will gain a basic knowledge of Shinto, Buddhism, and folk religion, which combine and interact in various ways in Japanese religious culture.
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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.
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The purpose of the course will be to better understand the relationship between religion and utopian imagination.
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