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Theory and Method in the Study of Religion (3)
Theories
since the Enlightenment that have attempted to explain religious phenomena.
Models rooted in social, psychological, economic, political, orientalist,
structuralist, and postmodern paradigms. Methodological issues.
Bryant
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Christians, "the Other," and Violence in Historical Context (3)
The ways in which violence and rhetoric about violence were central to Christian
identity formation up to and including the Reformations of the 16th century.
Kolbaba
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Yoga: from Vedic Origins to Western Transplantation (3)
The development of yoga from its expression in the third-century Yoga Sutras to its
modern Western transplanted form. How religious traditions adapt, transform,
and reinvent themselves according to time, place, and context.
Bryant
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(S) Religious Pluralism in America (3)
Interpretive paradigms and methodologies to address the nature of pluralism in American
religious history.
Williams
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Islamic Spirituality (3)
The historical development of Islamic mystical traditions and the most influential
theories of mysticism in relation to Islamic theological dogmas, using English
translations of Arabic and Persian primary sources.
Mojaddedi
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Buddhism, Society, and Politics in Southeast Asia (3)
The histories of Buddhist social and political culture in Southeast Asia from
premodernity to the present.
Lammerts
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Topics in the Study of Religion (3,3)
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