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Religion Course Schedule

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Fall 2025

  • REL 10 (2) The Religions of China. Raz (Identical to ASCL 61.01)
  • REL 16.01 (2A) An Introduction to Islam. Rahman (Identical to MES 06.02)
  • REL 19.39 (10A) Auto/Biography Across Buddhist Traditions. Long 
  • REL 28.08 (10A) The Qur'an in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Ben Tov (Identical to JWST 36.04 and MES 17.22)
  • REL 32.02 (11) Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno. Callegari (Identical to ITAL 33.01)
  • REL 46 (10) Daoism: Transformations of Tradition. Raz (Identical to ASCL 61.11)
  • REL 74.20 (FSP) The Meaning of Life. Swenson (Religion Foreign Study Program in Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Winter 2026

  • REL 1.04 (10A) Beginnings and Ends of Time. Raz
  • REL 1.08 (11) The Religion of Things. Wilkinson
  • REL 2.01 (10A) Religions of Southeast Asia. Long (Identical to ASCL 51.05)
  • REL 4 (12) Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Lanfer (Identical to JWST 4)
  • REL 18 (2) Indian Buddhism. Ohnuma (Identical to ASCL 51.03)
  • REL 19.22 (6B) Gender and Judaism. Greenblatt (Identical to JWST 53 and WGSS 33.03)
  • REL 19.25 (10A) Religions of the Caribbean. Richard
  • REL 20.07 (2) Archaeologies of Religion. Weiner (Identical to ANTH 50.37)
  • REL 32.01 (12) Christianity in Korea. Suh (Identical to ASCL 64.04 and HIST 78.01)
  • REL 34 (11) Vikings, Celts, and Saxons: Medieval Christian Imagination of the Pagan Past. MacEvitt (Identical to HIST 91.02)
  • REL 37 (2A) Mountain Gods, Mummies and Messiahs: Religions of the Andes. Wilkinson
  • REL 47 (10) Buddhism in China. Raz (Identical to ASCL 61.12)
  • REL 54 (2A) African American Religion and Culture in Jim Crow America. Richard (Identical to AAAS 22.10 and AAAS 80.08)
  • REL 57.04 (3B)The Dead Sea Scrolls. Lanfer (Identical to JWST 28.02)
  • REL 57.09 (2A) The Book of Exodus: Text, History, Memory and Reception. Peetz (Identical to JWST 11.04)
  • REL 69 (2) Religion and World Politics. Baum (Identical to GOVT 20.07)
  • REL 74.17 (10) Islam in Africa. Baum (Identical to HIST 69 and AAAS 53)
  • REL 85.01 (10A) Senior Colloquium. MacEvitt
  • REL 85.02 (10A) Senior Colloquium for Honors Program. MacEvitt

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Spring 2026

  • REL 1.03 (2A) Patterns of Religious Experience. Long
  • REL 1.09 (11) Religion and Drugs. Wilkinson
  • REL 3.01 (2) Indigenous Religions in the Colonial Americas. Wilkinson (Identical to ANTH 50.32)
  • REL 7.xy (10A) First Year Seminar in Religion: TBA. Singh
  • REL 10.01 (2A) Foundations of Chinese Thought. Slingerland
  • REL 16.07 (10A) Islam and Medicine from the Medieval to Modern Eras. Ayubi
  • REL 20.01 (2A) Classic Theories of Religion. Singh
  • REL 25.01 (10A) Are We Free? Evolution, Neuroscience and the Problem of Human Agency. Wheatley and Slingerland (Identical to PSYC 53.16)
  • REL 28.04 (6B) Gender in Islam. Ayubi (Identical to WGSS 43.06)
  • REL 40.08 (10A) Fear and Loathing in Religion: Contested Religious Belonging in South and Southeast Asia. Long
  • REL 41.04 (11) Buddhist Meditation Theory. Seton (Identical to ASCL 70.20)
  • REL 41.08 (2) Buddhist Philosophy. Seton (Identical to ASCL 51.08 and PHIL 1.20)
  • REL 43 (2) Buddhism in America. Ohnuma
  • REL 80.10 (10A) Messengers of God: Prophetism in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Baum

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edits forthcoming

Summer 2026

  • REL 12 (2A) Religion in North America. Balmer
  • REL 28.03 (3B) Muslim Feminism. Ayubi (Identical to WGSS 41.04)
edits forthcoming

Fall 2026

  • REL 1.01 (10) What Matters. Singh
  • REL 6 (tba) Judaism: Sacred Tets and Ritual Life in Diaspora. Feldman (Identical to JWST 6)
  • REL 14 (10) Introduction to African Religions. Baum (Identical to AAAS 18.03)
  • REL 16.01 (10A) An Introduction to Islam. Ayubi (Identical to MES 06.02)
  • REL 20.08 (tba) Ethnography and Religion. Feldman
  • REL 21.01 (12) Religion and Social Capital. Singh
  • REL 28.04 (2A) Gender in Islam. Ayubi (Identical to WGSS 43.06)
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Winter 2027

  • REL 1.09 (11) Religion and Drugs. Wilkinson
  • REL 2.02 (10) Religions of Vietnam. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.11)
  • REL 20.05 (tbd) What is Religion. Raz
  • REL 31 (tbd) Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity. MacEvitt (Identical to CLST 11.06 and WGSS 43.02)
  • REL 37 (3A) Mountain Gods, Mummies and Messiahs: Religions of the Andes. Wilkinson
  • REL 41.07 (12) Buddhism, Sexuality, & Gender in Southeast Asia. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.06)
  • REL 42 (tbd) Goddesses of India. Ohnuma (Identical to WGSS 43.04)
  • REL 85 (10A) Senior Colloquium. MacEvitt
edits forthcoming

Spring 2027

  • REL 1.08 (12) The Religion of Things. Wilkinson
  • REL 2.01 (11) Religions of Southeast Asia. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.05)
  • REL 7 (tba) First-Year Seminar in Religion: TBA. Feldman
  • REL 11.01 (10) God and Money. Singh
  • REL 13 (10A). Sports, Ethics and Religion. Balmer
  • REL 16.01(10A) An Introduction to Islam. Ayubi (Identical to MES 06.02)
  • REL 20.01 (12) Classic Theories in Religion. Singh
  • REL 20.07 (10) Archaeologies of Religion. Wilkinson (Identical to ANTH 50.37)
  • REL 28.04 (6B) Gender in Islam. Ayuybi (Identical to WGSS 43.06)
  • REL 59.01 (3A) Compassion: Religion, Giving, and Care. Swenson
  • REL 63 (2A) Mormonism. Balmer