
Prophets, Messiahs, Apocalypses
This course explores the range of the ways ancient Jewish texts imagine the cosmos, divine intervention, and humanity’s ability to change the world.
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 explores the range of the ways ancient Jewish texts imagine the cosmos, divine intervention, and humanity’s ability to change the world.
This course considers poetry and the poetics of ecology, race and gender as sites of religious meaning or locations to think about religion and the sacred functions of culture.
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.
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.