Social Science and Religion Network- Spring 2012 Courses

AFRICAN STUDIES

Tim Longman
GRS PO 760 – Problems and Issues of Contemporary Africa
Weds 1:00-4:00

 

ANTHROPOLOGY

Charles Lindholm
GRS AN 772 Psychological Anthropology
Introduces students to some key theoretical perspectives and controversies in the cross-cultural study of psychology. The reading is of classic texts and cross-cultural studies of emotion, sexuality, concepts of the person, national character, consciousness, authority, and religion.
MWF 12:00-1:00

Jenny White
GRS AN 707 Turkey & Middle East Perspective
Social and cultural diversity of the modern Middle East with particular attention to Turkey. Focus on the interplay of traditions and socio-economic changes that have occurred during the 20th century and their implications for the future.
TTh 9:30-11:00

 

HISTORY

Jon H. Roberts
GRS HI 708 Religious Thought in America
Surveys many of the strategies that American religious thinkers have adopted for interpreting the cosmos, the social order and human experience, and the interaction of those strategies with broader currents of American culture. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 854. Also offered as RN614.
MWF 11:00-12:00

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Elizabeth Prodromou
CAS IR560/RN560 Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religion in International Relations
This course examines changing treatments of nationalism in international relations theory and practice. Particular emphasis will be given to the links between religion, ethnicity, and the politics of nationalism, as well as to practical methods for conflict prevention and transformation involving religious ideas and actors. Inter-disciplinary readings, as well as film and other media treatments, and access to practitioner-experts, will support robust class discussion.
Thursday 2:00-5:00

MEDICINE

Lance Laird
GMS MA 622 Religion and Public Health
This medical anthropology course will explore relationships between religion and health in the context of public health projects. We will examine historical developments, examples of faith-based public health organizations, and current research on “religious health assets,” both locally and internationally.
Thursday 9:30-12:30

 

RELIGION

Hillel Levine
GRS RN 684/884 The Holocaust
Background of German (and European) anti-Semitism. Rise of Nazism and early oppression, initial Jewish reaction, mechanics of destruction, ghettos, camps, world response and nonresponse, literature of the Holocaust, and religious implications.
Tuesday 3:30-6:30
Stephen Prothero
GRS RN 727  Topics in American Religion
Tuesday 3:30-6:30
Adam Seligman
GRS RN 766  Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
Explores the religious roots of tolerance as an alternative to secular, more liberal foundations for pluralism. Grapples with the challenge of tolerance to the revealed religions and the ways different societies have met or failed to meet this challenge.
TTh 12:30-2:00