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Courses

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Fall 2018

  • RELG 003B. Varieties of Religious Experience in African Diaspora
    • Padilioni.
  • RELG 005. World Religions
    • Hopkins. Wallace
  • RELG 015B. Philosophy of Religion
    • Wallace.
  • RELG 019. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Food
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 020. Christian Mysticism
    • Ross.
  • RELG 024. From Vodun to Voodoo: African Religions in the Old and New Worlds
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 033. Queering the Bible
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 041B. Religion and Nature: Wonders Signs & Portents
    • Padilioni.
  • RELG 043B. Decolonizing Afro/Latin American Religion
    • Padilioni.
  • RELG 059. Hebrew for Text Study II
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 092. Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 093. Directed Reading
    • Staff.
  • RELG 095. Religion Café: Senior Symposium
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 096. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 097. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 114. Love and Religion
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 180. Senior Honors Thesis
    • Staff.

Spring 2019

  • RELG 006B. The Talmud
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 007B. When the Saints Go Marching In! Festivals and Parades of Latin America
    • Padilioni.
  • RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 011. First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life
    • Ross.
  • RELG 038. Religion and Film
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 057. Hebrew for Text Study I
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 092. Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 093. Directed Reading
    • Staff.
  • RELG 096. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 097. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 112. Postmodern Religious Thought
    • Wallace.
  • RELG 180S. Senior Honors Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 199. Senior Honors Study
    • Staff.

Fall 2019

  • RELG 001. Introduction to Religion
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 003. The Bible: In the Beginning...
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 004. Radical Jesus
    • Staff.
  • RELG 009. The Buddhist Traditions of Asia
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 011. First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life
    • Ross.
  • RELG 019. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Food
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 022. Religion and Ecology
    • Wallace.
  • RELG 024. From Vodun to Voodoo: African Religions in the Old and New Worlds
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 053. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Islamic Discourses
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 092. Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 095. Religion Café: Senior Symposium
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 096. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 097. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 108. Poets, Saints, and Storytellers: The Poetry and Poetics of Devotion in South Asian Religions
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 180. Senior Honors Thesis
    • Staff.

Spring 2020

  • RELG 006B. The Talmud
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 006C. First Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
    • Wallace.
  • RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 017. Animal Religion
    • Kessler.
  • RELG 034. Partitions: Religions, Politics, and Gender in South Asia Through the Novel
    • Hopkins.
  • RELG 038. Religion and Film
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 092. Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts
    • Plotkin.
  • RELG 096. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 097. Thesis
    • Staff.
  • RELG 100. Holy War, Martyrdom, and Suicide in Christianity, Judaism and Islam
    • al-Jamil.
  • RELG 102. Magic, Theory and Practice
    • Chireau.
  • RELG 180S. Senior Honors Thesis
    • Staff.

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