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RELI   211 INTRO TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS             Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the great cultural traditions of Asia, past and present,
with emphasis on evolving religious and philosophical traditions,
artistic and literary achievements, and patterns of political, social,
and economic change.
Enrollment limited to 40.
Also offered as Asia 211, Hist 206 and Huma 111.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM RH*110   Klein, Anne
001                                  Smith, Richard
001                                  Qian, Nanxiu

RELI   286 THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS            Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Theology and church-state issues from 16th-century Reformation to 17th
century; medieval background; Luther, Calvin, Catholic Reformation;
religious wars; Protestant Orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism;
calls for toleration.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM FL*524   Stroup, John

RELI   294 RELIGION IN FICTION AND FILM             Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examines views of the sacred through interreligious encounter from the
perspective of recent literary theory, modern and postmodern theology in
the fiction of Graham Greene, Shisako Endo, Yukio Mishima, Thomas Mann,
Zora Neale Hurston and films of Werner Herzog, Satyajit Ray and Peter
Brooks.
Enrollment limited to 25.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM FL*525   Wyschogrod, Edith

RELI   302 JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE                Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Course examines Judaism and Christianity, and the often conflictual
relations between the two faiths.  It proceeds both historically,
tracing their relation from the split that occurred in the first century
CE through the Middle Ages into the post-holocaust era, and
thematically, focusing on the nature of dialogue, Pharisaism and
Christian anti-Pharisaism, Jewish and Christian sexual ethics, visions
of redemption, Jewish responses to incarnation and Christian mission,
medieval disputations between church and synagogue (Barcelona
disputation: 1263), renewal and reform, holocaust, ecumenism.  Lecture
and discussion format.
Enrollment is limited to 40.
001 M       07:00PM-10:00PM SH*307   Kelber, Werner
001                                  Karff, Samuel

RELI   330 INTRODUCTION TIBETAN LANGUAGE            Credits 1.00  Spring 97
Readings in Tibetan Bon and Buddhist religious texts.
Offered with additional work as Reli 532.
Also offered as Tibetan 330.
001 TTH     04:00PM-05:20PM PL*117   Klein, Anne
002 TBA     TBA             TBA      TBA
003 TH      05:45PM-07:15PM FL*528   Klein, Anne

RELI   334 PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Significant contemporary problems examined from a clinical standpoint,
e.g.,ideas of God, evil, anxiety, guilt, and therapeutic process.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM PL*119   Sanborn, Hugh

RELI   342 20TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS  MOVEMENTS IN AFR Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Discuss 20th century 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.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
Also offered as Anth 343.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BL*123   Bongmba, Elias

RELI   354 SELECTED READINGS IN BIBLICAL HEBREW TEX Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explore select prose and poetic portions of the Hebrew Bible (in the
original) in conjuction with a variety of English translations.
Emphasis placed on close readings of the Hebrew text and interpretive
strategies and agendas of the English translators.  Designed to acquaint
students possessing limited knowledge of Hebrew (biblical or modern)
with a diversity of biblical Hebrew literary expression.
001 F       01:00PM-04:00PM FL*517   Noegel, Scott

RELI   356 HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Trace history of biblical interpretation and translation technique from
the earliest Aramaic and Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament) to the various historical, literary, form-critical,
structuralist, deconstructionist, and holistic interpretive strategies
of more recent times.  Supplemental readings with in-class, "hands on"
approach to materials demonstrating various hermeneutical methods and
applying them to biblical text.  No previous knowledge of Bible
required.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*118   Noegel, Scott

RELI   362 ENVIRONMENTAL & ECOLOGICAL ETHICS        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explores issues and problems of ecology, the environment, and future
generations from perspectives offered by ethical theories and religious
traditions.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM RH*105   McKenny, Gerald

RELI   372 MEDIEVAL JEWISH THOUGHT: PHIL, MYSTICISM Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introduction to medieval Jewish thought.  Students examine diverse
forms of religious thought, including philosophy, mysticism, and
scriptural commentary.  Special attention is paid to how medieval
thinkers perceived divinity, understood ritual performance, interpreted
scripture, and grappled with human error.  Readings include rashi,
Maimonides, Halevi, selected Kabbalistic texts, and Nahamanides.
Prereq- Basic background in religious studies or philosophy.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM RH*109   Braiterman, Zachary

RELI   402 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001                                  Klein, Anne
002                                  Kelber, Werner
003                                  McKenny, Gerald
004                                  Wyschogrod, Edith
005                                  Parsons, William
006                                  Stroup, John
007                                  Noegel, Scott
008                                  Heitman, Elizabeth
009                                  Braiterman, Zachary
010                                  Bongmba, Elias
011 TBA     TBA                      TBA

RELI   426 RELIGION AND LITERATURE  IN AFRICA       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A reading and analysis of the religious imagination expressed in
selected African literary works, dealing with Islam, Christianity, and
indigenous religions.  Course will analyze identity crisis for persons
and community implied or explicity stated in selected works.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM RH*109   Bongmba, Elias

RELI   444 JUDAISM AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE PROBLEM O Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examine the religious impact of the Nazi Holocaust on the culture of
Judaisim.  Pay particular attention to how Jewish thinkers revise
traditional ideas and texts in its light.  Draw on film, literature,
autobiographical reflection, contemporary theology, and classical Jewish
thought.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SH*207A  Braiterman, Zachary

RELI   451 PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
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.
Offered with additional work as Reli 517.
Also offered as Hist 451.
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*524   Stroup, John

RELI   463 MED ETHICS & AMER VALUES II              Credits 4.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continuation of 462 (prerequisite), with attention to clinical
experience.
Offered with additional work as Reli 544.
001 TH      03:00PM-05:00PM          Heitman, Elizabeth

RELI   517 PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Also offfered as Reli 451/Hist 451
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*412   Stroup, John

RELI   524 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      Klein, Anne
002 TBA     TBA                      Kelber, Werner
003 TBA     TBA                      McKenny, Gerald
004 TBA     TBA                      Wyschogrod, Edith
005 TBA     TBA                      Parsons, William
006 TBA     TBA                      Stroup, John
007 TBA     TBA                      Noegel, Scott
008 TBA     TBA                      Heitman, Elizabeth
009 TBA     TBA                      Braiterman, Zachary
010 TBA     TBA                      Bongmba, Elias
011 TBA     TBA                      TBA

RELI   532 INTRO TO TIBETAN LANGUAGE                Credits 1.00  Spring 97
See Reli 330 and Ling 331.
001 TTH     04:00PM-05:20PM PL*117   Klein, Anne
002 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM BL*123   Klein, Anne
003 TH      05:45PM-07:15PM FL*528   Klein, Anne

RELI   538 RELIGION AND LITERATURE  IN AFRICA       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Reli 426.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM RH*109   Bongmba, Elias

RELI   544 MED ETHICS & AMER VALUES II              Credits 4.00  Spring 97
Prereq- Reli 543.
Also offered as Reli 463.
001 TH      03:00PM-05:00PM          Heitman, Elizabeth

RELI   545 SEMINAR IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS: BIOETHICS  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 W       01:00PM-04:00PM FL*528   McKenny, Gerald

RELI   554 DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM                  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

RELI   594 TIME & ETERNITY: FROM AUGUSTINE TO POSTM Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Contemporary thinkers have sought radically to revise traditional
conceptions of time.  Seminar will explore relation of religion to
questions of temporality and eternity, being and becoming, historicity,
presence and absence in thought of Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida
and Lyotard.  Historical understanding of time in philosophies of Plato,
Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine and Kant will be considered as they bear
upon these recent philosophies.
001 T       02:30PM-05:30PM FL*406   Wyschogrod, Edith

RELI   800 RESEARCH AND THESIS                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      Klein, Anne

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