Religious Studies (RELST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 31, 2019 7:14PM EST
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Classes
RELST 2155
Course Description
Religion is a term with a rich history but without a precise definition. Everyone can describe a religious idea or a religious experience even though there is no agreement about what it is that makes an ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2155, JWST 2155
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Stimson Hall 206
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Litvak, O
RELST 2209
Course Description
In this course we will examine the modes of philosophical and spiritual inquiry, varieties of spiritual/bodily cultivation and practice, and religious organizations and movements in China that we know ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2289, CAPS 2209, HIST 2209
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Statler Hall 453
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Hinrichs, T
RELST 2273
Course Description
This course serves as both an introduction to the academic study of religion and a survey of major topics in the intersections of religious communities and environmentally sustainable practices. Using ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2273, NES 2273
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
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Law, J
RELST 2299
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2299
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Baker Laboratory 335
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Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
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Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 115
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Boucher, D
RELST 2515
Course Description
This course explores the major debates that define the study of contemporary Iran. Drawing from ethnographic works, literary criticism, intellectual histories and more, we will examine historical events ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2415, NES 2515
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 104
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Golestaneh, S
RELST 2630
Course Description
What must (or could) God be like, and what reasons do we have for thinking that a being of that sort actually exists? What difference would (or could) the existence of God make to our lives? Religion & ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2530
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
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MacDonald, S
RELST 2640
Course Description
Brexit, immigration, and the election of Donald Trump have all been recently heralded as signs of an imminent apocalypse. Films and fiction are saturated with images of zombies, environmental catastrophe, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2630
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
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Jonsson, M
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- R McGraw Hall 145
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Staff
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- R Uris Hall 498
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Staff
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- R Uris Hall 498
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Staff
RELST 2644
Course Description
Jewish communities have been established, flourished and often struggled for millennia, throughout much of the world, and in vital contact with a vast range of other peoples and cultures. This course examines ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2644, NES 2644
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 112
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Litvak, O
RELST 2655
Course Description
At the beginning of the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, appeared in Arabia and by the end of the century, Muslims had defeated the Byzantines and Persians and created an empire that stretched from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2530, MEDVL 2655, NES 2655
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
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Rock-Singer, A
RELST 2724
Course Description
The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is a repository of ancient Israelite religious, political, social, historical, and literary traditions. For the modern reader these ancient traditions are often obscured ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2724, NES 2724
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF White Hall 106
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Monroe, L
RELST 3311
Course Description
What role does Islam take in the politics, history, arts and rituals of Southeast Asia? Structured as a seminar, this course takes you on a journey through Southeast Asia, home to almost a quarter of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3311, ASIAN 6611, NES 3511
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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Formichi, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.
RELST 3312
Course Description
How does music relate to the divine? This class investigates the dynamic nexus of music, theology, and socio-cultural forces in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Students will acquire knowledge ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3312
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Lincoln Hall 124
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Lyon, E
RELST 4100
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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MacDonald, S
RELST 4449
Course Description
This seminar will explore the development of and variety in the academic discipline of Religious Studies. We will consider the emergence of secular approaches to the study of religion arising out of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4449
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall 144
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Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: one course in Religious Studies or permission of instructor.
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RELST 4451
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4451, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 4451, FGSS 6331, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
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Fuhrmann, A
RELST 4462
Course Description
Taught as a seminar, the course engages recent theoretical literature on the relations between religion, colonialism and nation formation. This theoretical literature is read in conjunction with historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4462, ASIAN 6662
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Statler Hall 453
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Blackburn, A
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: one course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above or permission of instructor.
RELST 4537
Course Description
This course offers a broad survey of contemporary Shi'i beliefs, practices, and politics with a focus on Twelver or Imami Shi'ism. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual and political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4637, ANTHR 7637, NES 4537, NES 6537, RELST 6537
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T White Hall B06
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Golestaneh, S
RELST 4626
Course Description
Narratives, particularly sacred narratives, are not static or fixed but rather infinitely flexible and malleable. Subject to multiple retellings—elaborations, modifications, and deletions—stories take ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4626, CLASS 7626, JWST 4626, MEDVL 4626, MEDVL 6626, NES 4626, NES 6626, RELST 6626
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T White Hall B04
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Haines-Eitzen, K
RELST 4990
Course Description
For undergraduates who wish to obtain research experience or do extensive reading on a special topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TBA
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Law, J
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
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RELST 4995
Course Description
RELST 4995 is the first course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
RELST 4996
Course Description
RELST 4996 is the second course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
RELST 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
MacDonald, S
RELST 6537
Course Description
This course offers a broad survey of contemporary Shi'i beliefs, practices, and politics with a focus on Twelver or Imami Shi'ism. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual and political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4637, ANTHR 7637, NES 4537, NES 6537, RELST 4537
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T White Hall B06
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Golestaneh, S
RELST 6626
Course Description
Narratives, particularly sacred narratives, are not static or fixed but rather infinitely flexible and malleable. Subject to multiple retellings—elaborations, modifications, and deletions—stories take ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4626, CLASS 7626, JWST 4626, MEDVL 4626, MEDVL 6626, NES 4626, NES 6626, RELST 4626
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B04
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K