Course Syllabi

REL 1 Patterns of Religious Experience

• REL 2 Religion in the Modern World
• REL 3 Modern Religious and Anti-Religious Thinkers
• REL 4 Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) (Identical to JWST 4)
• REL 5 Early Christianity: The New Testament
• REL 6 Introduction to Judaism (Identical to JWST 6)
• REL 7 First-Year Seminars in Religion (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 8 Introduction to Islam (Identical to AMES 8)
• REL 9 Hinduism (Identical to AMES 9)
• REL 10 The Religions of China (Identical to AMES 10)
• REL 11 Religion and Morality
• REL 12 Religion in North America
• REL 13 Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion (Identical to WGST 43.1)
• REL 14 Introduction to African Religions (Identical to AAAS 18)
• REL 15 The Christian Tradition
• REL 16 Modern Islam (Identical to AMES 15)
• REL 17 African Religions of the Americas (Identical to African and African American Studies 83.5)
• REL 18 Indian Buddhism
• REL 19 Special Topics in Religion—Introductory Level (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
  • 13X: The Origins of Judaism (Identical to JWST 70.4)

• REL 20.1 Foundational Figures in the Study of Religion
• REL 20.2 Magic, Science, and Religion
• REL 20.3 Reason and Religious Belief
• REL 20.4 Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology

• REL 21 Judaism in Late Antiquity: The Rabbinic Revolution (Identical to JWST 60)
• REL 22 Modern Judaism (Identical to JWST 61)
• REL 23 Jewish Mysticism (Identical to JWST 62)
• REL 24 Jewish Philosophers of Religion (Identical to JWST 63)
• REL 25 Islamic Mysticism (Sufism) 
• REL 26 Islam in America
• REL 27 The Qur’an and the Prophet
• REL 28 Topics in the Study of Islam (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 29 Kierkegaard and Existentialism
• REL 30 Sacred Cities (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 31 Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity (Identical to WGST 43.2 and CLST 11)
• REL 32 Topics in the Christian Tradition (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 33 Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
• REL 34 Christianity and Conversion in the Northern World: Vikings, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons
• REL 35 Religion and Science
• REL 36 New Directions in American Religious Thought
• REL 37 Animal Rights in Religion, Film, and Literature
• REL 38 Spiritual Autobiography
• REL 39 Magic Madwomen and Mystics
• REL 40 Topics in the Religions of India (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 41 Readings in Buddhist Literature (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 42 Goddesses of India (Identical to WGST 43.4)
• 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 (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 51 The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Tilma to Tattoo (Identical to LATS 35 and WGST 44.5)
• REL 52 Religion and Music in Cuba (Identical to LATS 30.4)
• REL 53 Religion, Healing, and Medicine
• REL 55 Ancient Egyptian Religion
• REL 56 Women and the Bible (Identical to WGST 43.3)
• REL 57 Readings in the Biblical Tradition (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 58 Topics in the Bible and Archaeology (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 60 Reformations: Protestant and Catholic
• REL 61 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement (Identical to AAAS 82)
• REL 62 Religion, Politics, and the Presidency
• REL 63 Mormonism
• REL 64 Evangelicalism
• REL 65Sports, Ethics & Religion
• REL 70 Foreign Study in Religion I (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 71 Foreign Study in Religion II (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 72 Foreign Study in Religion III (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 74 Special Topics in Religion—Intermediate Level (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)

• REL 80 Seminar (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 81 Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)
• REL 82 Joint Research in Religious Studies
• REL 83 Research in Religious Studies (Independent Study)
• REL 84 Advanced Research in Religious Studies (Independent Study)
• REL 85 Senior Colloquium (Culminating Experience) (topics and syllabi vary per term, consult individual instructors)

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