Religious Studies (RELST)Arts and Sciences

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RELST 2247

This course examines the dynamics of Islam's spread from its geographical centre in Arabia to Asia, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Taking a border-crossing thematic approach, the course ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2247

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16668 RELST 2247   LEC 001

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RELST 2255

The course aims to expose students to the varied landscape of religious realities in Asia offering an understanding of religion's development and interaction with Asia's society, culture, and politics. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2255

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16673 RELST 2255   LEC 001

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RELST 2299

This course will explore the Buddhist tradition from its origins in ancient India to its migrations throughout Asia and eventually to the West. The first part of the course will deal with Indian Buddhism: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2299

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9026 RELST 2299   LEC 001

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  •  9117 RELST 2299   DIS 201

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  •  9118 RELST 2299   DIS 202

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RELST 2630

In this course we will examine some of the major arguments regarding the existence and nature of a supreme being - ontological, cosmological, teleological, Pascalian, and moral arguments. We will also ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17145 RELST 2630   LEC 001

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  • 17146 RELST 2630   DIS 201

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  • 17147 RELST 2630   DIS 202

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  • 17148 RELST 2630   DIS 203

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RELST 2634

This course examines the cultural and historical interaction of Muslims and Jews from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the classical age of Islam down to the turn of the thirteenth ... view course details

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  • 15894 RELST 2634   LEC 001

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RELST 2644

In this course, students will survey the development of Judaism from its roots in ancient Mesopotamia to modernity. Rather than thinking of Judaism as static and easily definable, we will explore a history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2644NES 2644

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16056 RELST 2644   LEC 001

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RELST 2777

This course offers an overview of Rabbinic Literature from the first century BCE through the eight century of the Common Era. Each class will combine broad historical background with the close reading ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2631JWST 2777NES 2777

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15903 RELST 2777   LEC 001

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RELST 3150

A selective survey of Western philosophical thought from the fourth to the 14th century. Topics include the problem of universals, the theory of knowledge and truth, the nature of free choice and practical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 3210PHIL 3210

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16840 RELST 3150   LEC 001

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RELST 3280

Analysis of small sections of well-known material for in-depth discussion. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9279 RELST 3280   SEM 101

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RELST 3331

Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details

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  • 16675 RELST 3331   LEC 001

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RELST 3353

This course will examine techniques of spiritual cultivation in both the Daoist and Buddhist traditions of China. In particular we will compare and contrast methods which focus on the manipulation of bodily ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3353

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15687 RELST 3353   LEC 001

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RELST 3367

This course examines how Buddhist identities, communities and self-understandings are constituted in part through moments of encounter with non-Buddhists. How do Buddhists respond to the challenge ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3367

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17589 RELST 3367   LEC 001

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RELST 3540

In the age of smartphones and Facebook, the competing claims made on our attention only seem to be multiplying. This course is an opportunity to think about and to enact certain practices of attentiveness ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8662 RELST 3540   SEM 101

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RELST 3637

This course traces the historical development of Christianity from its roots in 1st century Palestinian Judaism to the emergence of Islam in the early 7th century, with special emphasis on the period prior ... view course details

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  • 15827 RELST 3637   LEC 001

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RELST 4100

Reading and translation of Latin philosphical texts.  view course details

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  •  8237 RELST 4100   SEM 101

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RELST 4280

Topic: The Book of Genesis view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4280

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9283 RELST 4280   SEM 101

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    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

RELST 4466

This course examines how religious ideologies, practices and institutions have been politically mobilized in the public spheres of modern South and Southeast Asia. Divisive social conflict and communal ... view course details

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  • 17619 RELST 4466   SEM 101

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    Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.

RELST 4557

How and why do landscapes come to inspire the religious imagination? And how do sensory landscapes, more specifically-territories of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell-inform, inflect, and engage the ... view course details

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  • 15913 RELST 4557   SEM 101

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RELST 4665

Augustine's De Trinitate 10 argues that the mind is an immaterial substance that models in some respects the divine trinity. This course will study Augustine's conception of the mind, focusing on his arguments ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4665PHIL 4210

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16410 RELST 4665   SEM 101

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RELST 4707

How and where does-indeed, can-one write the story of a diaspora of the Muslim creative and critical imagination? Guided by the critical work of e.g. Hawley, Rushdie, and Subramani, we will read and watch ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4601ENGL 4798NES 4707

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15896 RELST 4707   SEM 101

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RELST 4825

In the fourth century C.E. the Roman emperors decided to favor Christianity and shortly thereafter to forbid non-Christian activity. The 'end of paganism' however did not occur all at once if it ever did. ... view course details

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  • 17323 RELST 4825   SEM 101

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RELST 4990

No description available. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6205 RELST 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Law, J

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RELST 4995

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6430 RELST 4995   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

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RELST 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •  8243 RELST 6020   SEM 101

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RELST 6666

This course examines how religious ideologies, practices and institutions have been politically mobilized in the public spheres of modern South and Southeast Asia. Divisive social conflict and communal ... view course details

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  • 17620 RELST 6666   SEM 101

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    Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.

RELST 6707

Together we explore how contemporary diasporic Muslim, Latin American, European and Asian writers and filmmakers operate with(in) memory, with the impossible longing to belong, with the loss of 'home' ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6724NES 6707

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15899 RELST 6707   SEM 101

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