ELEMENTARY COURSE
1. Patterns of Religious Experience
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
2. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
3. Modern Religious and Anti-Religious Thinkers
4. Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) (Identical to JWST 4)
5. Early Christianity: The New Testament
6. Introduction to Judaism (Identical to JWST 6)
7. First-Year Seminars in Religion
8. Introduction to Islam (Identical to AMES 8)
9. Hinduism
10. The Religions of China (Identical to AMES 10)
11. Religion and Morality
12. Religion and Society in America
13. Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion (Identical to WGST 43.1)
14. Women, Religion and Social Change in Africa and African Diaspora (Identical to AAAS 43 and WGST 44)
15. The Christian Tradition
16. Modern Islam (Identical to AMES 15)
17. Introduction to Black Religion in the United States (Identical to AAAS 37)
18. Indian Buddhism
19. Special Topics in Religion—Introductory Level
THEORIES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION COURSES
20.1. Foundational Figures in the Study of Religion
20.2. Magic, Science, and Religion
20.3. Reason and Religious Belief
20.4. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
INTERMEDIATE COURSES
21. Judaism in Late Antiquity: The Rabbinic Revolution (Identical to JWST 60)
22. Modern Judaism (Identical to JWST 61)
23. Jewish Mysticism (Identical to JWST 62)
24. Jewish Philosophers of Religion (Identical to JWST 63)
25. Islamic Mysticism (Sufism)
26. Islam in America
27. The Qur’an and the Prophet
28. Topics in the Study of Islam
29. Kierkegaard and Religious Existentialism
30. Rome: The Holy City
31. Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity (Identical to WGST 43.2 and CLST 11)
32. Mysticism and Christianity
33. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
34. Christianity and Conversion in the Northern World: Vikings, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons
35. Religion and Science
36. New Directions in American Religious Thought
40. Topics in the Religions of India
41. Readings in Buddhist Literature
42. Goddesses of India (Identical to WGST 43.4)
46. Daoism: Transformations of Tradition
47. Buddhism in China
48. Body and Sex in Chinese Religions
49. Topics in East Asian Religions
50. Indigenous African Religions (Identical to AAAS 43)
51. Women’s Spirit Possession Narratives in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Nwapa and the Ezilis (Identical to AAAS 87 and WGST 50.1)
52. Women’s Rituals: From Africa and Around the World (Identical to AAAS 66 and WGST 44.1)
55. Ancient Egyptian Religion (Pending faculty approval)
56. Women and the Bible (Identical to WGST 43.3)
57. Readings in the Biblical Tradition
58. Topics in the Bible and Archaeology
60. The Protestant Reformation: Origins, Legacies, and Modern Appropriations
61. Martin Luther King, Black Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement (Identical to AAAS 82)
62. Contemporary Christianity
70. Foreign Study in Religion I
71. Foreign Study in Religion II
72. Foreign Study in Religion III
74. Special Topics in Religion—Intermediate Level
ADVANCED COURSES
80. Seminars
81. Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminars
82. Joint Research in Religious Studies
83. Research in Religious Studies (Independent Study)
84. Advanced Research in Religious Studies (Independent Study)
85. Senior Colloquium
86. Honors I (Research)
87. Honors II (Writing)
NON-WESTERN COURSES
REL 8 Introduction to Islam
REL 9 Hinduism
REL 10 The Religions of China
REL 14 Women, Religion and Social Change in Africa and African Diaspora
REL 16 Modern Islam
REL 18 Indian Buddhism
REL 25 Islamic Mysticism (Sufism)
REL 27 The Qur’an and the Prophet
REL 40 Topics in the Religions of India
REL 41 Readings in Buddhist Literature
REL 42 Goddesses of India
REL 46 Daoism: Transformations of Tradition
REL 47 Buddhism in China
REL 48 Body and Sex in Chinese Religions
REL 49 Topics in East Asian Religions
REL 50 Indigenous African Religions
REL 51 Women’s Spirit Possession Narratives in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Nwapa and the Ezilis
REL 52 Women’s Rituals: From Africa and Around the World REL 78 Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
