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Religious Studies

Minor Requirements

The Religious Studies minor is similar in structure to the Religious Studies concentration of the Comparative Studies major. It consists of courses taught in Comparative Studies as well as courses offered by the various departments, including Anthropology, Greek and Latin, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, History, History of Art, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, and Sociology.

The Religious Studies minor employs an academic approach to religion, stressing its role as a dimension of human experience in different cultural contexts. A minor in Religious Studies consists of a minimum of 35 credit hours, including 20 credits chosen from the list of core courses and 15 additional credits to provide depth in two traditions.

Required Courses (10 credits):

Core Courses (two of the following are required, 10 credits):

Additional Courses
Elective courses listed for the Religious Studies major concentration are also electives for the Religious Studies minor. Ten hours are to be chosen from an Abrahamic tradition (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) or Indo-Sinitic tradition (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism) or an Indigenous/Folk/Archaic tradition (Native American, African, Shinto). Five hours are to be chosen from a different Abrahamic, Indo-Sinitic, or Indigenous tradition.

Minors in Religious Studies are encouraged (but not required) to fulfill their GEC foreign language requirement in a language relevant to one of the traditions represented in the minor program (for example, Arabic for Islam, Greek for Christianity, Chinese or Sanskrit for Buddhism, Hebrew for Judaism)..

Elective Courses for Religious Studies

Religious Studies Note: All courses formerly listed as Religious Studies courses are now listed as Comparative Studies courses.

Comparative Studies
270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
315 Women and Religion
321 The Religions of India
322 Native American Religions
323 The Buddhist Traditions
324 African Religions
345 South Asian American Religion & Culture
376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
541 Myth and Ritual
542 Native American Identity
620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
641 The Japanese Religions Tradition
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
677.04 Comparative Folk Groups

African American and African Studies
342 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
541 History of Islam in Africa

Anthropology
620.11 Anthropology of Religion

Arabic
*626 Intro to the Qur'an
671 The Qur'an in Translation

Classics
222 Classical Mythology
226 Byzantine Civilization: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome
322 The Hero in Classical Mythology
323 Religion in the Graeco Roman World
324 Magic in the Ancient World
325 Christians in the Graeco Roman World
326 Christian Heroes: Byzantine Saints’ Lives

English
280 The English Bible

Hebrew
216 The Medieval Jewish Experience
241 Culture of Contemporary Israel
370 Biblical & Post Biblical Hebrew Lit in Translation
371 Medieval Hebrew Literature in Translation
372 Modern Hebrew Lit in Translation
373 Prophecy in the Bible and Post Biblical Literature
374 Women in Biblical and Post Biblical Hebrew Lit
376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
378 Biblical and Post-Biblical Wisdom Literature
379 The World of the Rabbis
*425 Readings in the Mishnah
*620 Intro to Hebrew Literary and Cultural Texts
*621 The Bible as Literature: Selected Readings
*623 Readings in Rabbinic Literature
671 Problem of Evil: Biblical & Post Biblical Lit
676 Studies in Biblical Law
680 Biblio & Ref Tools: Hebraica, Judaica, & Semitics
*taught in Hebrew

History
301 Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations
330.01 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization
330.02 Modern Jewish Civilization
331 The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry
332 Jews in American Film
340 Islam, Politics, and Society in History
342 Foundations of Chinese Civilization
345.01 History of East Asia to 1800
368 Introduction to Native American History
500 The Ancient Near East
503.02 Early Roman Empire: 31 BC-AD 180
503.03 Later Roman Empire: AD 180-476
505.01 Byzantine History: Early Byzantine Empire
505.02 Later Byzantine Empire
506 History of Early Christianity
507 History of the Medieval Christianity
508.01 Medieval Europe I: 300-1100
508.02 Medieval Europe II: 1100-1450
508.03 Medieval England
511 The Reformation
530.01 History of Ancient Israel
530.02 Jewish History: Second Commonwealth
530.03 Jews in the Western World in Modern Times
530.04 The American Jewish Experience
531.01 Messiahs and Messianism in Jewish History
531.02 Jews in the World of the Renaissance
531.03 Jewish Society at the Dawn of the Modern Age, 1600-1750
533.01 Colonial Latin American History
540.01 Islamic Society, 610-1258
540.02 History of Iran
540.03 Ottoman Empire
540.04 Middle East in 19th Century
540.05 Middle East in 20th Century
541.01 Islamic Spain & No. Africa
541.02 History of Islam in Africa
542.01 Intellectual and Social Movements in the Muslim World
543.01 Ancient India
543.02 Islamic India
543.03 Colonial India
548.01 History of Japan before 1800
568.01 Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820
568.02 Native American History Removal to Present
578 American Religious History

History of Art
210 Art of the Ancient World
211 Art of the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds
213 Asian Art
216 Intro to African Art and Archeology
301 Christian Art
305 Art and Civilization in the Near East
315 Renaissance Art in Italy
316 Dante’s Divine Comedy & its Visualizations
505 Contemporary African Art, 1920-Present
524 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
525 Medieval Art
527 Northern Renaissance Art
529 Early Renaissance Art in Italy
576 The Arts of China
582 Arts of Japan
610 African Art and Archeology I
611 African Art and Archeology II
615 Contemporary Art of West Africa
616 Contemporary Art of Central Africa
617 Contemporary Art of East and Southern Africa
625 Romanesque and Gothic Art
628 Gothic Towards Renaissance: 14th Century
651 Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture
663 Early Islamic Art
664 Later Islamic Art
669 The Art of Newar Buddhism
670 Buddhist Art: Theory and History
671 Art of India I
672 Art of India II
673 Art of Central Asia
674 Art of Nepal and Tibet
675 Art of India III
676 Hindu Iconography
677.01 Chinese Art: Pre Buddhist
677.02 Chinese Art: Buddhist
681 Japanese Art: Proto Historic and Buddhist

Japanese
641 The Japanese Religious Tradition

Jewish Studies
201 Intro to Jewish Studies
613 The American Jewish Experience: Life and Culture

Medieval and Renaissance Studies
210 Court of Charlemagne
211 Medieval Kyoto: Portraits and Landscapes
212 Culture of a City-State in the Renaissance
213 Medieval Moscow
214 Golden Age of Islamic Civilization
215 Gothic Paris
216 The Medieval Jewish Experience
217 Early Modern London
218 Colonial Mexico: Med & Renaiss Legacy
NT226 Byzantine Civilization: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome
240 Magic & Witchcraft in the Middle Ages & Renaissance

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
271 Sacred Texts of the Near East
341 Islam in the U.S.
351 Introduction to Islam
370 Mythology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
372 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
671 Canons and Communities in the Near East

Persian
370 Persian Culture

Philosophy
215 Asian Philosophies
270 Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
302 History of Medieval Philosophy
321 Introduction to Jewish Philosophy
322 Jewish Mysticism
323 Judaism and Ethics
521 Topics in Jewish Philosophy
602 Studies in Medieval Philosophy
670 Philosophy of Religion

Rural Sociology
622 Amish Society

Scandinavian
222 Nordic Mythology and Medieval Culture

Sociology
467 Sociology of Religion

Turkish
371 Turkish