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Dec 21, 2024
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2015-2016 University Catalog archived
Religion (REL)
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HONORS: An Honors Program in religion is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.
Department Head: Jeffrey L. Kosky
Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
Joel A. Blecher, Ph.D.—(2013)-2013
Assistant Professor of Religion
Ph.D., Princeton University
Alexandra R. Brown, Ph.D.—(1987)-2001
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Bible
Ph.D., Columbia University
Jeffrey L. Kosky, Ph.D.—(2003)-2013
Professor of Religion
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School
Timothy Lubin, Ph.D.—(1997)-2009
Professor of Religion
Ph.D., Columbia University
Richard G. Marks, Ph.D.—(1984)-1996
Jessie Ball duPont Professorship of Religion
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
NOTE: The religion courses are numbered according to the following scheme. Within the 100, 200 and 300 levels, the last two digits indicate the following groupings:
00-29 Introductions, Methods and Issues
30-49 Asian
50-69 Christian
70-89 Islam, Judaism, American Indian Religions
90-99 Topics
Major
- • REL 100 - Introduction to Religion
- • REL 101 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- • REL 102 - New Testament
- • REL 103 - Introduction to Asian Religions
- • REL 105 - Introduction to Islam
- • REL 106 - Judaism: Tradition and Modernity
- • REL 108 - The Qur’an
- • REL 131 - Buddhism
- • REL 132 - God and Goddess in Hinduism
- • REL 136 - Caste at the Intersection of Economy, Religion, and Law
- • REL 151 - Christianity and Culture Before 1500
- • REL 152 - Christianity and Modern Culture
- • REL 153 - Jesus in Fact, Fiction, and Film
- • REL 175 - Beginning Biblical Hebrew I
- • REL 176 - Beginning Biblical Hebrew II
- • REL 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
- • REL 181 - FS: First-Year Seminar
- • REL 195 - Special Topics in Religion
- • REL 201 - The Sacred in Music: The Liberal Arts as Portal to the Sacred
- • REL 203 - Secularity, Disenchantment, and Religion
- • REL 205 - Self-Help and the Pursuit of Happiness
- • REL 207 - Nature and Place
- • REL 209 - Travel, Mythic and Modern
- • REL 210 - Approaches to the Study of Religion
- • REL 212 - Philosophy and Religion
- • REL 213 - Perspectives on Death and Dying
- • REL 214 - Religion and Existentialism
- • REL 215 - Female and Male in Western Religious Traditions
- • REL 216 - Sainthood in Four Traditions
- • REL 218 - Heidegger and Being in the World
- • REL 221 - Sociology of Religion
- • REL 222 - Law and Religion
- • REL 223 - Ancient Greek Religion
- • REL 224 - American Indian Religions, Landscapes, and Identities
- • REL 225 - Magic, Science, and Religion
- • REL 231 - Yogis, Ascetics, and Holy People
- • REL 235 - Gods in Transit: The Spread of Religions in Asia
- • REL 250 - Early Christian Thought: Orthodoxy and Heresy
- • REL 260 - Seminar in the Christian Tradition
- • REL 262 - The Bible, the Enlightenment and its Aftermath
- • REL 270 - Biblical Job and His Modern Masks
- • REL 273 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
- • REL 275 - God and the Holocaust
- • REL 281 - Modern Islamic Thought
- • REL 283 - Sufism: Islamic Mysticism
- • REL 284 - Gender, Sexuality, and Islam
- • REL 285 - Introduction to American Indian Religions
- • REL 295 - Special Topics in Religion
- • REL 296 - Seminar in Religion, Ethics, and Law
- • REL 299 - Directed Study in Sanskrit
- • REL 333 - Meditation and Self-Knowledge
- • REL 335 - Hindu Law in Theory and Practice
- • REL 340 - Seminar in Asian Religions
- • REL 350 - Seminar in Biblical Studies
- • REL 381 - Islamic Law in Society
- • REL 395 - Advanced Seminar in Religion
- • REL 399 - Senior Seminar
- • REL 401 - Directed Individual Study
- • REL 402 - Directed Individual Study
- • REL 403 - Directed Individual Study
- • REL 493 - Honors Thesis
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