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 PH 647 Asian Philosophy
GRS RN 612 Buddhism in America
GRS RN 663 Zen Buddhism
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
GRS RN 730 Topics in East Asian Religion: Meditation
STH TM 846 Religion & Society in East Asia
Chinese Religions
GRS AN 750 Asians in America
GRS AN 779 China: Tradition and Transition
GRS PH 647 Asian Philosophy
GRS RN 610 Asian Religions in America
GRS RN 612 Buddhism in America
GRS RN 660 Taoism
GRS RN 661 Chinese Philosophy
GRS RN 662 Chinese Medicine
GRS RN 663 Zen Buddhism
GRS RN 730 Topics in East Asian Religion: Meditation
GRS RN 855 The Confucian Way
STH TM 846 Religion and Society in East Asia
Christianity
CAS HI 594 The Armeniand Genocide
GRS HI 808 History of the Crusades
GRS HI 810 Heresy & Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
GRS HI 812 The Reformation Era: Sixteenth-Century Europe
GRS HI 827 Early Medieval Spain
GRS HI 854 Religious Thought in America
GRS HI 869 Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500
CAS IR 539 State-Formation and Nation-Building in Southeastern Europe: From Byzantium to Brussels
CAS IR 562 Politics and Religion in Modern Europe: Church-State Relations in Comparative Perspective
GRS PH 608 History of Medieval Philosophy
GRS PH 806 Medieval Philosophy
GRS RN 601 Varieties of Early Christianity
GRS RN 602 Women and Christiantiy in the Middle Ages
GRS RN 603 Topics in Christian Thought
GRS RN 604 Christian Thought II
GRS RN 605 The Bible in the Medieval World
GRS RN 607 Medieval Christian Spirituality
GRS RN 685 The Life and Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.
GRS RN 690 New Testament Literature
GRS RN 708 Medieval Religious Philosophy
GRS RN 712 Theology of Christian Mysticism
GRS RN 713 Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism
GRS RN 727 Topics in American Religion
GRS RN 728 Theology Proseminar
GRS RN 770 Topics in Medieval Christianity
GRS RN 772 Topics in Religious Thought: Mysticism & Philosophy: East & West
GRS RN 798 Topics in Early Christianity
GRS RN 814 (STH TT 946) Advanced Systematic Theology I: God and Creation
GRS RN 815 (STH TT 947) Advanced Systematic Theology II: The Human Condition
GRS RN 816 (STH TT 948) Advanced Systematic Theology III: Sanctification and Religious Life
GRS RN 820 Early Christianity
STH TH 718 Church History I: Survey
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 873 Readings in Modern Protestant Thought
STH TH 910 History of Christian Mission
STH TH 928 Seminar: Theology and Ministry of Selected Theologians in Church History
STH TH 930 History of Missiology
STH TH 934 Proseminar in the History of Christianity
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 815 The Debate over Modern Mission
STH TM 827 Women in Mission
STH TM 863 African Christian Theology
STH TM 910 History of Christian Mission
STH TM 927 Women in 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 815 The Parables
STH TN 818 New Testament Theology
STH TN 820 The Gospel of Mark
STH TN 825 New Testament Seminar: Gender & Family in Early Christianity
STH TN 826 The Corinthian Correspondence
STH TN 841 Luke-Acts
STH TN 848 (TO 848) Story and Storytelling
STH TO 835 Current Issues in Biblical Interpretation
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 670 Classical Indian Religion
GRS RN 672 Indian Philosophies of Religion
GRS RN 675 Culture and Religion of South Asia
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
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 760 The Nomadic Alternative
CAS HI 594 The Armenian Genocide
CAS HI 595 Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
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 640 The Qur’an
GRS RN 641 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
GRS RN 642 Aspects of Islamic Culture
GRS RN 643 Global Islam
GRS RN 644 Islam and the West
GRS RN 645 Islamic Law
GRS RN 647 Islamic Theology and Philosophy
GRS RN 648 Persian Poetry
GRS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
Judaism
CAS HI 550 Jews in Modern Culture
CAS HI 551 Modern Jewry and the Arts
CAS HI 552 Topics in Jewish History
CAS HI 592 The Birth of a State: Israel 1945-1955
GRS PH 609 (RN 720) Maimonides
GRS RN 620 Varieties of Early Judaism
GRS RN 621 Seminar: Wisdom and Tradition in Ancient Israel and Judaism
GRS RN 622 History of Judaism
GRS RN 623 Classical Jewish Thought
GRS RN 624 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
GRS RN 625 Seminar: Early Jewish Mysticism
GRS RN 626 Judaic Studies
GRS RN 628 Judaism in the Modern Period
GRS RN 629 Modern Jewish Thought
GRS RN 631 Zionism and the State of Israel
GRS RN 633 Anti-Semitism
GRS RN 634 Dead Sea Scrolls
GRS RN 635 Jusaism in the First Century
GRS RN 636 Medieval Jewish Philosophy
GRS RN 637 Gender and Judaism
GRS RN 684 The Holocaust
GRS RN 689 Moses and Monotheism
GRS RN 721 Exodus Through the Eyes of the Rabbis: A Study of Selected Midrash Texts
GRS RN 799 Topics in Judaica
LAW JD 835 Jewish Law
STH TN 848 (TO 848) Story and Storytelling
STH TO 802 The Prphetic Tradition
STH TO 806 Goddesses and Women in the World of Ancient Israel
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 Teh Book of Jeremiah
STH TO 832 Responses to Suffering in the Hebrew Bible
STH TO 835 Current Issues in Biblical Interpretation