Course Offerings

The Jewish Experience I 

JUDAIC 101 

4 

Susan Shapiro 

T/TH 11:30-12:45 

The Jewish Experience II 

JUDAIC 102 

4 

Aviva Ben-Ur 

T/TH 10:00-11:15 

Women, Gender, Judaism 

JUDAIC 383 

4 

Susan Shapiro 

T/TH 2:30-3:45 

Islam in the Middle East 

MIDEAST 105 

4 

Malissa Taylor 

MW 4:00-5:15 

Mythology of Ancient Persia 

MIDEAST 313 

4 

Hadi Jorati 

T/TH 4:00-5:15 

Religion Evolution 

ANTHRO 494RI 

4 

Lynette Sievert 

MW 2:30-3:45 

Religion of the Roman World 

CLASSICS 329 

4 

Caroline Horvitz 

T/TH 11:30-12:45 

Bible Myth/Lit/Soc 

ENGLISH 203 

3 

David Toomey 

T/TH 2:30-3:45 

Intro to World Religions 

HISTORY 112H 

4 

Susan Ware 

T-TH 10:00-11:15 

Witches: Myth and Reality 

GERMAN 

4 

Kerstin Mueller Dembling 

MWF 1:25-2:15 

Sociology of Religion 

SOCIOL 321 

4 

Fareen Parvez 

MW 2:30-4:45 

The Persian Book of Kings 

ASLC/ARHA/ HIST 357 

4 

Yael Rice 

T/TH 10:00-11:20 

Happiness and the Good Life 

RELI 113 

4 

Andrew Dole 

T/TH 1:00-2:20 

The Cognitive Science of Religion 

RELI 115 

4 

Andrew Dole 

T/TH 1:00-2:20 

Buddhist Traditions 

RELI/ASLC 152 

4 

Professor Jenkins? 

T/TH 3:00-4:20 

Death and Dying in Judaism 

RELI 167 

4 

Professor Eliassian 

TBD/pending faculty approval 

What is Religion? 

RELI 210 

4 

Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos 

MW 12:30-1:50 

West African Religion as Philosophy 

RELI/BLST/ PHIL 223 

4 

Monika Brodnicka 

MW 8:30-9:50 

The Quran as Literature 

RELI 280/ENGL 297 

4 

Tariq Jaffer 

T/TH 11:30-12:50 

Islam and the Other 

RELI 289 

4 

Tariq Jaffer 

T/TH 3:00-4:20  

Dreams, Visions, and Otherworldly Encounters 

RELI 329 

4 

Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos 

M 2:30-5:30 

Buddhist Stories from Modern East Asia 

RELI/ASLC 360 

4 

Lei Ying 

T/TH 10:00-11:20 

The Virgin Mary 

CSI 108 

4 

Jutta Sperling 

T/TH 7:40-9:00PM 

Introduction to Islam 

RELIG 102 

4 

Amina Steinfels 

MW 10:00-11:15 

Introduction to African Diaspora Religions 

RELIG 181 

4 

Meredith Colemen-Tobias 

T/TH 10:30-11:45 

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible 

RELIG/JWST 203 

4 

Emily Branton 

T/TH 10:30-11:45 

Women and Gender in Islam 

RELIG 207 

4 

Amina Steinfels 

MW 11:30-12:45 

Eco-Buddhism 

RELIG 225EB 

4 

TBA 

MW 1:45-3:00 

Buddhism in Fiction and Film 

RELIG 225FF 

4 

TBA 

M 7:15-10:05 PM 

Religion and Inequality 

RELIG 225RN 

4 

Cassandra Sever 

MW 11:30-12:45 

Medieval Iberia: Art, Society, Culture 

RELIG 225SP 

4 

Samuel Barber 

MW 10:00-11:15 

African American Spiritualities of Dissent 

RELIG 331AF 

4 

Meredith Colemen-Tobias 

TH 1:30-4:20 

The Human Body in Jewish Thought 

RELIG 331HB/JWST 350HB 

4 

Emily Branton 

T 1:30-4:20 

The Meaning of Life 

REL/PHI 108 

4 

Jay Lazar Garfield, Andy Rotman 

W 2:45-4:00 

M 3:05-4:20 

Rest 

REL 109 

4 

David Howlett 

T/TH 1:20-2:35 

Intro to the Bible I 

REL 112 

4 

Joel Kaminsky 

MW 10:50-12:05 

Blasphemy! 

REL 204 

4 

Vera Shevzov 

T/TH 10:50-12:05 

Social Justice in the Bible 

REL 213 

4 

Joel Kaminsky 

W 2:45-4:00 

M 3:05-4:20 

Religious Thought and Spirituality in Revolutionary Russia 

REL 240 

4 

Vera Shevzov 

T/TH 2:45-4:00 

Muslims, Modernity and Islam 

REL 246 

4 

Suleiman Ali Mourad 

MW 9:25-10:40 

Food, Identity and Religion in the Middle East 

REL 252 

4 

Suleiman Ali Mourad 

MW 10:50-12:05 

Zen Buddhism and Japanese Culture 

REL 270 

4 

Jamie Hubbard 

T/TH 2:45-4:00 

Religion and US Capitalism 

REL/HST 271 

4 

Casey Bohlen 

T/TH 1:20-2:35 

Motherhood in Early Judaism 

JUD 217 

4 

Sari Fein 

T/TH 10:50-12:05 

Women and Gender in Jewish History 

JUD 227 

4 

Sari Fein 

W 1:20-2:35 

M 1:40-2:55 

Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity 

JUD 238 

4 

Sari Fein 

T/TH 1:20-2:35 

Medieval Literature Between Christianity and Islam 

ENG 226 

4 

Seamus Dwyer 

T/TH 2:45-4:00