Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2001
Religious Studies (RELI)
Rice Course Schedule as of 05/08/2001.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some RELI courses.
RELI 113 INTRO TO CHRISTIANITY AFRICA Credits 3.00 Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introductory reading course examining the dynamics of African Christianity
from the early church to the present. Course will include studying the African
church during the Patristic era, the Colonial period, Prophetic Movements,
nationalism, racial tensions, the role of women, and the emergence of a
distinct theological voice.
001 BL 131 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Bongmba, Elias K. Enr: 62 Max: NA
RELI 122 INTERPETING THE BIBLE Credits 3.00 Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Seeks to acquaint students with the principal parts of the Hebrew Bible/Old
Testament and to provide some exposure to the different ways in which the
Bible has been interpreted, from late Antiquity to modern times. Compares a
modern-critical reading with early Jewish and Christian, often fanciful,
elaborations of the same biblical tales and and figures.
001 FL 524 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Hood, Stephen L. Enr: 11 Max: NA
RELI 132 CLASSICAL & COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN Credits 4.00 Spring 01
Readings in Tibetan Bon and Buddhist religious texts. Offered with additional
work as Reli 532.
001 HUM 226 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Hillis, Gregory Enr: 2 Max: NA
RELI 262 MYSTICISM: TEXTS AND METHODS Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Familiarize the student with diverse texts (secular and religious, East and
West) found in mystical literature. Emphasis will be placed on psychological,
philosophical and comparative methods. Offered with additional work as Reli
582.
001 FL 524 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Parsons, William B. Enr: 9 Max: NA
RELI 293 PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 01
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Inquiry into the ways which selected Western and Asian philosophers have
interpreted God, reality, the moral life and religious experience. Plato,
Augustine, Hume and Kant will be compared with thinkers of the Vedic, Jain,
Samkhya and Buddhist traditions.
001 HUM 226 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Wyschogrod, Edith Enr: 19 Max: NA
RELI 322 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM Credits 3.00 Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Exploration of the Buddhist traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan,
emphasizing the relationship between styles of meditation, their philosophical
perspectives, cultural context, and classic Buddhist texts. Offered with
additional work as Reli 572.
001 SH 207B - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Hillis, Gregory Enr: 25 Max: NA
RELI 334 PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Significant contemporary problems examined from a clinical standpoint,
e.g.,ideas of God, evil, anxiety, guilt, and therapeutic process.
001 GRB 211W - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Sanborn, Hugh W. Enr: 15 Max: NA
RELI 342 NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Discusses new religious movements and the religious, sociological, and
political factors leading to their rise, also missionary and colonial reactions
to them. Examines their relationship to indigenous religions, political
praxis, their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and
economic marginality. Also offered as ANTH 343.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 HUM 226 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Bongmba, Elias K. Enr: 2 Max: NA
RELI 371 MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT Credits 3.00 Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The impact of modernity, the englightment, Kant, Hegel, and existentialism on
Jewish thought. Among figures considered are Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann,
Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig. The interaction of modern Judaism andChristianity
will also be discussed.
001 HZ 118 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Wyschogrod, Michael Enr: 5 Max: NA
RELI 391 DEATH & DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Death,immortality, resurrection, grief and mourning in selected texts and films
of Western and Asian religious traditions, and modern and postmodern
literature. Readings from the Bible, Plato, Augustine, St. Theresa of Avila,
the Upanishads, selected Buddhist texts and the works of Tolstoy, Rilke, Kafka,
and Celan. Offered with additional work as Reli 591.
001 HUM 226 - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Wyschogrod, Edith Enr: 6 Max: NA
RELI 402 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 01
No description
009 TBA - TBA Stroup, John M. Enr: 3 Max: NA
RELI 430 RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES Credits 3.00 Spring 01
A survey of the historical development of the psychology of religion and its
conversation with theology, comparative studies, gender studies, sociology, and
anthropology. Topics include: mysticsm, eroticism, conversion, feminism,
psychobiography. Examples drawn from a variety of religious traditions.
Readings include: Freud, Jung, Tillich, Erikson, Kristeva, Kakar. Offered
with additional work as Reli 584.
001 HUM 226 - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM Parsons, William B. Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 451 PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Modern thought on the meaning and ultimate direction of history; roots in
eschatology, Augustine, flowering in progress and historicism--e.g., Vico,
Lessing, Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Harnack, Troeltsch, Meinecke,
Spengler, Heidegger, Butterfield, Dawson, Schweitzer, Jaspers, Toynbee. Also
offered as HIST 451. Offered with additional work as Reli 517.
001 FL 524 - M 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 2 Max: NA
RELI 456 HISTORY OF WESTERN CHRISTIANITY: REFORMA Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Spirituality, politico-social movements, and intellectual life in the West.
Includes Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, Barth, C.S. Lewis, Tillich,
Marx, Nietzsche, and Jung. Offered with additional work as Reli 520.
001 FL 524 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 7 Max: NA
RELI 463 MEDICAL ETHICS-AMER. VALUES II Credits 4.00 Spring 01
Continuation of 462 (prerequisite), with attention to clinical experience.
Offered with additional work as Reli 544. Taught in conjunction with University
of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public
Health. Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 TBA - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Heitman, Elizabeth Enr: 3 Max: NA
RELI 492 MODERNITY AND RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 01
The role of religion and faith in the modern world has often been problematic.
In this seminar, we will analyze the role of religion in the twentieth century
through case studies from around the world. Topics vary.
001 HB 21 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Thal, Sarah Enr: 0 Max: NA
RELI 509 NEW TESTAMENT & HERMENEUTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Models of Christian Origins: Modernity's perception of Early Christianity from
the perspectives of methodology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of history.
001 SH 562 - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM Kelber, Werner H. Enr: 2 Max: NA
Schroter, Jens
RELI 517 PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 451 and Hist 451.
001 FL 524 - M 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
RELI 520 HISTORY OF WESTERN CHRISTIANITY: REFORMA Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate-level version of Reli 456.
001 FL 524 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
RELI 524 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 1.00 Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA Bongmba, Elias K. Enr: 2 Max: NA
002 TBA - TBA Heitman, Elizabeth Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Henze, Matthias Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA Kelber, Werner H. Enr: 1 Max: NA
005 TBA - TBA Hillis, Gregory Enr: 0 Max: NA
006 TBA - TBA Wyschogrod, Michael Enr: 0 Max: NA
007 TBA - TBA McKenny, Gerald P. Enr: 1 Max: NA
008 TBA - TBA Parsons, William B. Enr: 0 Max: NA
009 TBA - TBA Stroup, John M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
010 TBA - TBA Wyschogrod, Edith Enr: 0 Max: NA
011 TBA - TBA Sanborn, Hugh W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
RELI 532 CLASSICAL & COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 132 and Tibt 132.
001 HUM 226 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Hillis, Gregory Enr: 0 Max: NA
RELI 541 HISTORY AND METHODS OF ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA McKenny, Gerald P. Enr: 2 Max: NA
RELI 544 MED ETHICS & AMER VALUES II Credits 4.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 463. Taught in conjunction with University of
Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Classes meet at UT School of Public
Health. Intended only for highly qualified undergraduates.
Prereq- Reli 543 and permission of instructor required.
001 TBA - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Heitman, Elizabeth Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 545 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 01
no description
001 TBA - W 01:00PM - 04:00PM McKenny, Gerald P. Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 572 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 322.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Hillis, Gregory Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 582 MYSTICISM: TEXTS AND METHODS Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 262.
001 FL 524 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Parsons, William B. Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 584 RELIGION & MODERN THERAPIES Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate version of Reli 430.
001 HUM 226 - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM Parsons, William B. Enr: 1 Max: NA
RELI 591 DEATH AND DYING IN RELIGION & LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 01
Graduate verison of RELI 391.
001 HUM 226 - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Wyschogrod, Edith Enr: 2 Max: NA
RELI 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 6 Max: NA
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