Religion Course Schedule

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Fall 2024

  • REL 4 (12) Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Lanfer (Identical to JWST 4)
  • REL 6 (10A) Introduction to Judaism. Feldman (Identical to JWST 6)
  • REL 13 (10A) Sports, Ethics & Religion. Balmer
  • REL 14 (10) Introduction to African Religions. Baum (Identical to AAAS 18.03)
  • REL 19.39 (10A) Auto/Biography Across Buddhist Traditions. Long
  • REL 20.08 (2A) Ethnography and Religion. Feldman
  • REL 30.02 (10) Sacred Cities: Jerusalem. Lanfer
  • REL 32.02 (11) Into and Beyond Dante's Inferno. Callegari (Identical to ITAL 33.01)
  • REL 62 (2A) Religion, Politics, and the Presidency. Balmer
  • REL 66 (10A) Women, Religion, and Social Change in Africa. Baum (Identical to AAAS 42 and WGSS 44.03)
  • REL 80.12 (10A) Religions on the Silk Road. Raz (Identical to ASCL 80.12)

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Winter 2025

  • REL 1.09 (11) Religion and Drugs. Wilkinson
  • REL 2.02 (12) Religions of Vietnam. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.11)
  • REL 7.10 (10) The Struggle for Liberation: Women, Monasticism, and Buddhism. Ohnuma
  • REL 11.01 (10) God and Money. Singh
  • REL 20.07 (2) Archaeologies of Religion. Wilkinson (Identical to ANTH 50.37)
  • REL 21.01 (11) Religion and Social Capital. Singh
  • REL 33 (11) Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades. MacEvitt (Identical to HIST 91.01 and JWST 36.01)
  • REL 40.08 (10A) Fear and Loathing in Religion: Contested Religious Belonging in South and Southeast Asia. Long
  • REL 46 (10) Daoism: Transformations of Tradition. Raz (Identical to ASCL 61.11)
  • REL 49.01 (2) Apocalyptic Thought. Raz (Identical to ASCL 70.26)
  • REL 59.01 (10A) Compassion: Religion, Giving, and Care. Swenson
  • REL 85.01 (10A) Senior Colloquium. MacEvitt
  • REL 85.02 (10A) Senior Colloquium for Honors Program. MacEvitt

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Spring 2025

  • REL 1.01 (10) What Matters. Singh
  • REL 1.03 (10A) Patterns of Religious Experience. Long
  • REL 1.08 (10A) The Religion of Things. Wilkinson
  • REL 1.12 (11) Race and Religion. Feldman
  • REL 1.13 (12) Sacred Movement. Weiner
  • REL 2.01 (10) Religions of Southeast Asia. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.05)
  • REL 5 (10A) Early Christianity: The New Testament. Wright
  • REL 16.01 (10A) An Introduction to Islam. Ayubi (Identical to MES 06.02)
  • REL 16.03 (2A) Islam in America. Ayubi (Identical to AAAS 22.50)
  • REL 19.22 (12) Gender and Judaism. Feldman (Identical to JWST 53 and WGSS 33.03)
  • REL 19.40 (10A) Heidegger and Jewish Thought. Lapidot (Identical to JWST 26.01)
  • REL 20.01 (11) Classic Works in the Study of Religion. Singh
  • REL 37 (2A) Mountain Gods, Mummies and Messiahs: Religions of the Andes. Wilkinson
  • REL 41.04 (11) Buddhist Meditation Theory. Seton (Identical to ASCL 70.20)
  • REL 41.07 (12) Buddhism, Sexuality, & Gender in Southeast Asia. Swenson (Identical to ASCL 51.06)
  • REL 41.08 (2) Buddhist Philosophy. Seton (Identical to ASCL 51.08 and PHIL 1.20)
  • REL 57.07 (2A) Apocalyptic Imagination. Wright
  • REL 64 (10A) Evangelicalism. Balmer
  • REL 67 (2A) Religion and Imperialism. Baum (Identical to ANTH 12.15)
  • REL 74.17 (2) Islam in Africa. Zeinstra (Identical to HIST 69 and AAAS 53)

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Summer 2025

  • REL 12 (2A) Religion in North America. Balmer
  • REL 13 (10A) Sports, Ethics & Religion. Balmer
  • REL 21.01 (10) Religion and Social Capital. Singh

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Fall 2025

  • REL 1.12 (2A) Race and Religion. Feldman
  • REL 6 (10A) Introduction to Judaism. Feldman (Identical to JWST 6)
  • REL 10 (2) The Religions of China. Raz (Identical to ASCL 61.01)
  • REL 32.02 (TBA) 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 74.04 (TBA) The Black Church and Black Bodies: Race, Sexuality and Class in Religious Culture. Allen (Identical to SOCY 49.21, AAAS 81.04, and WGSS 43.07)
  • 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 (2) Beginnings and Ends of Time. Raz
  • REL 1.08 (10A) The Religion of Things. Wilkinson
  • REL 11.01 (10) God and Money. Singh
  • REL 18 (2) Indian Buddhism. Ohnuma (Identical to ASCL 51.03)
  • REL 19.22 (TBA) Gender and Judaism. Greenblatt (Identical to JWST 53 and WGSS 33.03)
  • REL 20.07 (2) Archaeologies of Religion. Weiner (Identical to ANTH 50.37)
  • REL 21.02 (11) Gods and Kings. Singh
  • REL 32.01 (TBA) 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 47 (10) Buddhism in China. Raz
  • REL 37 (2A) Mountain Gods, Mummies and Messiahs: Religions of the Andes. Wilkinson
  • 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 1.09 (11) Religion and Drugs. Wilkinson
  • REL 3.01 (2) Indigenous Religions in the Colonial Americas. Wilkinson (Identical to ANTH 50.32)
  • REL 20.08 (10A) Ethnography and Religion. Feldman
  • REL 28.04 (6B) Gender in Islam. Ayubi (Identical to WGSS 43.06)
  • 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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