Religion
Note: the courses on this page reflect Summer Term 2008 offerings.
Please check back on December 15 for a list of courses available during Summer Term 2009.
College of Arts and Sciences
CAS RN 100 Religion and Culture
This summer course provides an introduction to the study of the intersection
between religion and culture. Particular emphasis is given to the critical
examination
of religion in contemporary American mass culture (politics, the arts, mass
media, etc.). 4 cr.
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CAS RN 106 Death and Immortality
Examines death as religious traditions have attempted to accept, defeat,
deny, or transcend it. Special attention is paid to death and the afterlife
in American culture. Some topics include ancestor veneration, cosmologies, burial
and cremation rites, and near-death experiences. 4 cr.
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CAS RN 220 The Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
Historical development of Jerusalem and its symbolic meanings in
Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, from the Bronze Age to the 21st
century.
4 cr.
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CAS RN 362 Chinese Medicine
A wide range of traditional Chinese health and religious practices,
interpreted in light of ancient concepts of body and mind, illness and health,
and the like. Techniques are discussed, as well as magical, ritual, and popular
healing. 4 cr.
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