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1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Notions of justice as individual rights or respect for persons; conceptions of care, compassion, or love. Previous work in ethics required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Religious traditions and moral identity; secular liberalism versus religious nationalism; universal and particular loyalties; "fundamentalism," gender, and religiously inspired violence. Priority given to concentrators in religious studies, political science, and international relations. Prerequisite: previous work in ethics. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Religious traditions and moral identity; secular liberalism versus religious nationalism; universal and particular loyalties; "fundamentalism," gender, and violence. Priority given to concentrators in religious studies, political science, and international relations. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Is religious belief reasonable? Does it need to be? Can it respond to the challenges of scientific traditions of Marxism or Durkheim? In order to be intellectually defensible and morally respectable, does religion require experts-- professionals of various stripes-- to adjudicate its truth claims? This course on religious thought and truth claims. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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What is nature? Is nature all there is? In what ways, if any, should the study of religion be in principle different from the study of nature? This course will survey some of the varieties of philosophical naturalism, both historical and contemporary. Drawing a distinction between substantive or metaphysical naturalism and methodological naturalism, it will examine the arguments made on behalf of naturalism and explore its implications for religion. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar examines a range of the most influential criticisms of human rights; assesses several proposed theories of human rights; surveys the approach of several religious traditions toward justifying human rights; and considers a range of issues within contemporary debates, such as religious freedom, minority group rights, women's human rights, and the role of religion in politics. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of gift-giving in antiquity, with a focus on the Mediterranean in late antiquity. We will examine a range of gift-giving activities, such as sacrifices (gifts to the gods), civic donations, and almsgiving. Several visiting lecturers will participate in the course, and it will culminate in an international conference to take place at Brown. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Directed reading and research arranged with individual faculty. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Required of seniors in the honors program. Open to others only by permission of the chair of the department. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Critical examination of major approaches to the study of religion, especially those of the anthropology and the history of religions, with attention to issues in current debate. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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Recent topics have included: Exegesis at Qumran, I and II Kings. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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An examination of prayer from the Hebrew Bible to late Antiquity. Will look at actual liturgies, writings about prayer and ancient and modern theorizations of prayer. Knowledge of Hebrew and Greek helpful. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Focuses on Hebrew exegetical texts such as the Temple Scroll, MMT, pHab, 4QJub, CD. Intended for doctoral students and others with sufficient knowledge of Hebrew. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Graduate Return to Previous New Search
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A close reading of selections from surviving literary texts of the late sixth century (e.g., Isaiah 56-66, Zechariah 1-8, Haggai) and and the fifth century (Ezra-Nehemiah, Malachi). Prerequisite: An advanced knowledge of biblical Hebrew and permission of the instructor. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Survey of Ugaritic grammar followed by readings in mythic and epic literature (e.g. the Baal Cycle, Kirta, Aqhat) and ritual texts. Prerequisite: Knowledge of the grammar of one Semitic language. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Readings in the Mishnah and related rabbinic literature. While the focus will be on gaining textual skills, we will also survey academic approaches to the Mishnah: What is the Mishnah and its relationship to earlier and contemporaneous texts? How was it composed, transmitted, and received? Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Hebrew. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Recent topics have included: Duty and Virtue, Historicism and Ethics; History, Tradition, and Morality; Kant's Relation to Modern and Post Modern Theology; Post Structuralism in Liberation Thought; Pragmatism; Recent Conceptions of Natural Law; Religious and Social Theory; Religious Origins of Communitarian Thought. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Graduate School College Religious Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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