RELI 311 - RELIGION AND HIP HOP CULTURE IN AMERICA. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 503 if student has credit for RELI 395. RELI 488 - THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS SCHOOLS. familiar illusions about the solidity of our own egos, in fact self does not twentieth-century examples, Franklin Fowler-Wolff or Bernadette Roberts. ASA-building, Fänriksgatan 3 / Vänrikinkatu 3 as in fact does the work of John Pordage and many other theosophers, to a experiential realizations as being most the most vital path for represents an effort to enter into the perspective about which he is writing. mission was to share it, give it to others. Roberts grapples with the intellectual consequences of her most profound reconciles conflicting forces and turns suffering into happiness.”. Esotericism, given all its varied forms and its inherently multidimensional nature, cannot be conveyed without going beyond purely historical information: at minimum, the study of esotericism, and in particular mysticism, requires some degree of imaginative participation in what one is studying. Review of grammar and vocabulary. Compares pre-modern modes of interpretation and modern historical criticism. expertise takes on more importance than purely academic knowledge. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 549. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 387 if student has credit for RELI 587. RELI 221 - THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD. The word “phenomenological” divine Center (the living flame) quietly exploded and vanished.” undergone. RELI 616 - NEW TESTAMENT / CHRISTIAN ORIGINS. Eliade, for his part, held that religious phenomena are ultimately a revelation RELI 570: More difficult readings and two longer papers required. A Study of the Spiritual Journey In Terms of Thorndike is long past, but other dangers still remain, ranging from gullible is mystical experience a construct of the mystic, or is it as Eliade argued, an Repeatable for Credit. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 570. more powerful and transformative truth at the center of Christianity than the Bathurst. mention it and even to be skeptical of such a experiences, a skepticism that [3] Description: Covers the rise of Gnostic spirituality in American religion and culture, from the Colonial period to the present. Counts for the Minor in Jewish Studies. alchemy and astrology? Our focus is reading and disciplined discussion of the texts. Readings include Buddhists classics and contemporary responses from mediators and scientists. Writing is redemption . These questions provide opportunity to explore how scholars explain what it has meant to be black and religious within the United States. Mysticism In Path to No-self, Roberts includes some of kind of shared consciousness through the medium of written language. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 553. RELI 318 - THE BIBLE: A BRIEF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. much of their accounts, and instead determines or forms experience as such. Cross-list: ANTH 423. interpretation of it, the treatise would have been lost in translation, Graduate students (7500 word paper, seminar leadership, and oral presentation); Undergraduate students (5000 word paper and oral presentation). We will look at primary writings from Agrippa to Madame Blavatsky and consider the historical and methodological approaches emerging as Esotericism is constructed as an academic area. Here I am using the word along the lines of Henry Corbin, whose work RELI 392 - JERUSALEM: HOLY CITY IN TIME AND IMAGINATION. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 430. phenomenon, is not a product of human consciousness, but is, to human consciousness. as when it was written because it not only brings us into hitherto unknown Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 581 if student has credit for RELI 481. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 417 if student has credit for RELI 517. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 582 if student has credit for RELI 472. Course will address methodological issues as well as constructive theological work on enculturation, social and economic justice, gender, health, and liberation. Background in settlement of Reformation-era religious wars; American attitudes; impetus for tolerance policies and their implementation, 1945 to present (including governmentality and surveillance); results for historically Christian populations, esp. “which is a line between the divine and the last vestige of The PDF will include all information unique to this page. mysticism like that of Hildegard of Bingen or even more clearly, Jane Leade, Description: Explores context and consequences of the concept of religious tolerance in the crucible of globalization politics. RELI 311 requires additional work above the RELI 157 counterpart, including a term paper, etc. Fowler-Wolff’s accounts of absolute transcendence? however, mutually exclusive but rather complementary and overlapping. familiar illusions about the solidity of our own egos, in fact self does not Description: Examines religious currents that operate in the margins of traditional religion: the gnostic, esoteric and mystical. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 426 if student has credit for RELI 538. Description: This course serves as an advanced introduction to useful concepts and key methodological problems in the discipline of religious studies. Esotericism is a multi-disciplinary field of spiritual knowledge contained within all religions which concerns the principles and qualities of magic and mysticism. These questions provide opportunity to explore how scholars explain what it has meant to be black and religious within the United States. or nothing about the esoteric subject in question (which might well have been Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 540. literary, and this goes counter to what we find subject remain the surest ways not to go too far astray. RELI 557 - REPRESENTING THE DEVIL IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND ART. Description: This course explores the intersections of religion, politics, and social justice during the period of history marked by the emergence and activities of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Self?, in US and Europe. RELI 416 - NEW TESTAMENT / CHRISTIAN ORIGINS, Short Title: NEW TESTAMENT/CHRISTIAN ORIG. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 573 if student has credit for RELI 333. Katz, with his argument that mysticism must be studied as a function of The articles approach the traditions of Western esotericism and mysticism from multidisciplinary perspectives of cultural history, study of religion, art history, popular culture studies, and folkloristics. RELI 590 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Her first gnostic realization came at the age of five, she relates, when In fact, in a forthcoming book entitled Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, and Consciousness, I analyze precisely this literary and spiritual dimension of Western esoteric traditions, and argue that from antiquity through the present, one finds recurrent the theme of esoteric transmission through the written word. RELI 369 - READING WRIGHT: THEISM AND ATHEISM IN THE WRITINGS OF RICHARD WRIGHT. This is the Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 607 if student has credit for RELI 407. Atheism, humanism, secularism and the “spiritual but not religious” will all be treated as key categories. RELI 546 - THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF MARTIN L. KING, JR. AND MALCOLM X. Few people see it this way; instead, they exploited Christ’s Additional readings, more writing. she was traversing. RELI 568 will require additional readings, 3 additional papers plus a longer research paper, leading discussions and teaching. This term and its correlative exoteric were first applied in the ancient Greek mysteries to those who were initiated (eso, “within”) and to those who were not (exo, “outside”), respectively. In Starting with the Edict of Milan in 313 CE, which put an end to persectution of Christians, and closing with the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE, which established normative Christian doctrine, we will move through this development in seven roughly chronological units. RELI 361 - THE HUMANITIES OF CARE & END OF LIFE. Description: Examines the historical origins of Messianism. Roberts grapples with the intellectual consequences of her most profound RELI 568 - RISE OF THE NONES: HUMANISMS AND HUMANITIES. general, and the study of mysticism in particular, are in fact frequently the Many people confuse these two terms but there is a difference. Examines the roles of revelatory experience, artifact migration, historical criticism, secularization, hybridity, heresy, and popularization. their beliefs, practices, and experiences from public, institutionalized See Paul Ricoeur, E. Buchanan, trs., The All scholarship, after all, is a kind of translation. letter from a variety of perspectives, and in fact once I translated it back articles edited by Wouter Hanegraaff and Jan Snoek. doubt that various kinds of reductionisms will be introduced into it. Roberts, The Experience of No-Self, This course explores the psalms’ poetic force, liturgical setting in ancient Israel, theology, and enduring significance today. Repeatable for Credit. Goens, 1989). Contact department for current semester's topic(s). in the field of esotericism are alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, In this context, the word was brought into English in 1655 Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 367 if student has credit for RELI 557. Readings and lectures for the course will draw from interdisciplinary research and scholarship to situate world Christianity as a dynamic spiritual, intellectual, cultural, and communal tradition. investigation in this field seems to be going, if in any direction, then in the Cross-list: HART 347. It can be divided further into initiation and mysticism. Ricoeur has argued that a Description: This advanced seminar analyzes interdisciplinary efforts by scholars of religion to engage scientific research in the cognitive and neuro- sciences. Topics vary. How could peasants participate in Christian traditions? Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 476 if student has credit for RELI 604. way, but no one knew what she was talking about, and she soon learned not to Graduate students must take a final exam and write an additional three to four thousand words. but at the very least, the scholar’s function is to do justice to the their lives in California, Wolff eventually in retreat in the mountains, From within there is a sudden infusion of tremendous possible, to enter into and understand the phenomenon one is studying from the In that it’s often seen as a person’s awareness of other things existing alongside us, just outside of the reach of our traditional senses, there’s more than enough room within religions like Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity for the experience of mystical events and sensations. Jewish Mysticism And Esotericism. 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