
Christianity: Christ to Constantine
This course surveys the history and literature of ancient Christianity from its origins as a Jewish sect in Palestine to its establishment as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
Every so often in college you may take a class that deeply affects the way you see the world. We think that many of our courses fall into that category. When using religious studies as a lens, you can learn a great deal about many subjects, including human biology, health and evolution, food trade and sustainability, social networks and the arts, technology from the stone age to the information age, global cultures and indigenous heritage, social media and endangered languages, and international human rights. Explore the highlighted courses below or take a look at all of our offerings.
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This course surveys the history and literature of ancient Christianity from its origins as a Jewish sect in Palestine to its establishment as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.

This course explores Indian women’s religious lives.

In this course, we will look at the variety of new religious traditions from the late 19th century through today that we can define as “Black Nationalist” on the basis of concepts of nationhood, Black self-determination, and construction of ethnic identity, mainly in the United States, but also with reference to Black Nationalist movements elsewhere in the diaspora.

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.