Religious Tradition Tracks
Listed below are the courses for each of the Religious Tradition Tracks available to students in the IRRN degree program. Students may also petition the Director of Graduate Studies to have a class not included in these lists count toward fulfilment of a Track requirement.
Religious Tradition Tracks:
Buddhism
GRS AN 750 Asians in America
GRS AN 775 Culture, Society, & Religion in South Asia
GRS AN 779 China: Tradition and Transition
GRS RN 612 Buddhism in America
GRS RN 663 Zen Buddhism
GRS RN 664 Buddhist Literature
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
STH TM 846 Religion & Society in East Asia
Chinese Religions
GRS AN 750 Asians in America
GRS AN 779 China: Tradition and Transition
GRS RN 612 Buddhism in America
GRS RN 660 Daoist Religion
GRS RN 661 Confucian Religion
GRS RN 662 Chinese Medicine
GRS RN 663 Zen Buddhism
GRS RN 730 Topics in East Asian Religion
STH TM 846 Religion and Society in East Asia
STH TT 815 The Confucian Way
Christianity
CAS HI 594 The Armenian Genocide
GRS HI 704 Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500
GRS HI 708 Religious Thought in America
GRS RN 601 Varieties of Early Christianity
GRS RN 602 Early Christian Women
GRS RN 607 Medieval Christianity
GRS RN 608 The Open Heaven: Apocalyptic Literature in Early Judaism and Christianity
GRS RN 669 Science and Christianity
GRS RN 691 American Catholic Narrative
GRS RN 712 Theology of Christian Mysticism
GRS RN 713 (HI 813) Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism
GRS RN 771 Topics in Ancient Christianity
GRS RN 794 Magical Texts: Literature and Practice
STH TH 718 Introduction to Church History
STH TH 817 Varieties of Ancient Christianity
STH TH 821 History and Doctrine of United Methodism
STH TH 825 The Medieval Church
STH TH 826 The Reformations
STH TH 827 American Church History
STH TH 830 Topics in Ancient Christianity
STH TH 838 Methodism in British Society, 1730-1914
STH TH 842 Pietism & Methodism in the North Atlantic World
STH TH 848 (TM 848) Emergence of Christianity as a Global Movement
STH TH 856 (TM 856) Women in Mission and World Christianity
STH TH 865 Methodist Expansion in North America, 1760-1860
STH TH 910 History of Christian Mission
STH TH 930 History of Missiology
STH TH 935 Religious Roots of Social Welfare
STH TH 936 Religion in a Divided Society: Ireland 1750-1995
STH TH 950 European Religion in the Age of the Great Cities c. 1800-1914
STH TH 971 Seminar: Luther and the Radical Reformers
STH TM 910 History of Christian Mission
STH TM 930 History of Missiology
STH TM 931 Readings in Contemporary Missiology
STH TN 721 New Testament Introduction
STH TN 803 Jesus in the Gospels
STH TN 805 Pauline Studies
STH TN 806 The Gospel of John
STH TN 810 The Social Setting of Early Christianity
STH TN 813 Letter to the Romans
STH TN 818 New Testament Theology
STH TN 820 The Gospel of Mark
STH TN 826 The Corinthian Correspondence
STH TN 848 (TO 848) Story and Storytelling
STH TO 835 Current Issues in Biblical Interpretation
STH TS 805 The Spirit and the Art of Conflict Transformation
Hinduism
GRS AN 718 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Development
GRS AN 725 Hinduism, Globalization, and World Politics
GRS AN 775 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
GRS RN 613 Hinduism in America
GRS RN 675 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
GRS RN 729 Religion and Politics in South Asia
Islam
GRS AN 707 Turkey & Middle East Perspective
GRS AN 717 Power and Society in the Middle East
GRS AN 719 Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics
GRS AN 720 Women in the Muslim World
GRS AN 755 Religious Fundamentalism in an Anthropological Perspective
GRS AN 760 The Nomadic Alternative
CAS HI 594 The Armenian Genocide
CAS HI 595 Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
CAS HI 596 (AH 539, AN 548, RN 563) Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History
GRS HI 977 Directed Research in Islamic History
CAS IR 507 The Muslim and Western Worlds: Prospects for a “Clash of Civilizations”
CAS IR 508 Islamic Political Movements and U.S. Policy
CAS IR 509 (PO 573) Islam in Middle East Politics
CAS IR 586 Islam in South Asian Politics
GRS IR 706 The Iranian Revolution and its Impact on the Middle East
GRS IR 757 Transnational Shi’ism
CAS PO 560 Politics and Society in North Africa and the Middle East
GRS RN 616 Modern Islam
GRS RN 640 The Qur’an
GRS RN 641 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
GRS RN 643 Islam in Global Perspective
GRS RN 644 Islam and the West
GRS RN 645 Islamic Law
GRS RN 647 Islamic Theology and Philosophy
GRS RN 648 Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
GRS RN 729 Religion and Politics in South Asia
GRS RN 734 Representations of Muhammad
GRS RN 735 Women, Gender, and Islam
Judaism
CAS HI 550 Jews in Modern Culture
CAS HI 552 Topics in Jewish History
CAS HI 592 The Birth of a State: Israel 1945-1955
CAS HI 593 Youth on the Agenda: Roles & Images of Young People in the Jewish Nation
GRS RN 608 The Open Heaven: Apocalyptic Literature in Early Judaism and Christianity
GRS RN 619 Midrash: Classical Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation
GRS RN 622 History of Judaism
GRS RN 623 Classical Jewish Thought
GRS RN 624 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
GRS RN 625 Early Jewish Mysticism
GRS RN 626 Jewish Mystical Movements and Modernization, 1492-2000
GRS RN 628 Modern Judaism
GRS RN 629 Modern Jewish Thought
GRS RN 630 American Jewish Experiences
GRS RN 631 Zionism and the State of Israel
GRS RN 634 Dead Sea Scrolls
GRS RN 635 Josephus and Ancient Judaism
GRS RN 636 The Heretical Jew
GRS RN 637 Gender and Judaism
GRS RN 638 Mysticism & Philosophy: Medieval Jewish Perspectives
GRS RN 639 The Modern Jew
GRS RN 684 The Holocaust
GRS RN 685 Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
GRS RN 689 Moses and Monotheism
GRS RN 720 Maimonides
GRS RN 794 Magical Texts: Literature and Practice
GRS RN 799 Topics in Judaic Studies
LAW JD 835 Jewish Law
STH TN 848 (TO 848) Story and Storytelling
STH TO 802 The Prophetic Tradition
STH TO 807 History of Israelite Religion
STH TO 811 Dead Sea Scrolls
STH TO 814 The Cultural Background of the Hebrew Bible
STH TO 816 Hebrew Wisdom
STH TO 818 Old Testament Theology
STH TO 821 The Book of Psalms
STH TO 823 The Book of Jeremiah
STH TO 835 Current Issues in Biblical Interpretation