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 looks to understand who held religious power between the years 400-1500. We will fist look at the papal church, than at saints, monks and other ascetics and visionaries who had charismatic power. Finally, we delve scholars and mystics as well as angry kings, arrogant popes, passionate crusaders, extraordinary mystics, and some of the greatest thinkers in the history of Christianity.
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 will look to Hawaiʻi in thinking through issues such as the inevitable expansion of America, the depiction and appropriation of indigenous cultures, what it means to live in a multi-cultural world.
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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