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Spring 2025

IDS 2935 – Authentic Leadership
REL2300 – Introduction to World Religions
REL2362 – Introduction to Islam
REL3082 – Global Ethics
REL3120 – Religion & Migration
REL3191 – Death & Afterlife
REL3213 – Hebrew Bible as Literature
REL3249 – The Christian Gospels
REL3305 – Global Christianity
REL3330 – Religions of India
REL3381 – Religion in Latin America
REL3410 – Religion & Nationalism
REL3931 – Junior Seminar
REL 3938 – Taoism & Chinese Culture
REL 3938 – Arguing Jewish Law
REL 4092 – Ethics, Utopias, and Dystopias
REL 4103 / RLG 5199 – Religion and Nature in North America
REL 4141 / RLG 5143 – Religion and Social Change
REL 4400 / RLG 5937 – Religion and Psychology
RLG 5937 – Graduate Professionalization

Fall 2024

IDS 1114 – Ethics and the Public Sphere
IDS 2935 – Authentic Leadership
IDS 2935 – Why is there Evil in the World
IDS 2935 – Post-Holocaust American Jews
REL 1101 – Nature, Spirituality, and Popular Culture
REL 2240 – New Testament
REL 2300 – Introduction to World Religions
REL 2341 – Introduction to Buddhism
REL 2502 – Introduction to Christianity
REL 3022 – Myth and Ritual
REL 3148 – Religion and Violence
REL 3160 – Religion and Science
REL 3294 – Apocalypticism
REL 3938 – Ottoman Palestine, 1516-1918
REL 3938 – History of Judaism
REL 3938 – Jews in the Muslim World
REL 4145 – Gender, Women, Sexuality, and Religion
REL 4933 – Comparative Study (Senior Seminar)

Summer 2024

REL 2158 – Religion and Social Movements
REL 2362 – Introduction to Islam

Spring 2024

IDS 2935 – The Problem of Evil
REL 1144 – Religious Extremism
REL 2121 – American Religious History
REL 3076 – Cults and New Religious Movements
REL 3098 – Religion Medicine and Healing
REL 3136 – Global Religions in the United States
REL 3171 – Ethics in America
REL 3191 – Death and the Afterlife: Perspectives from World Religions
REL 3291 – Gender and the Hebrew Bible
REL 3318 – Chinese Religions
REL 3381 / RLG 6387 – Religions in Latin America
REL 3931 – Junior Seminar
REL 3938 – Global Christianity
REL 3938 – Muslims in Europe Today
REL 3938 – Arguing Jewish Law
REL 3939 – Religion & the Paranormal
REL 4188 – Environmental Values and Practice
REL 4368 / RLG 5361 – Global Islam
REL 4400 / RLG 5937 – Religion and Psychology
RLG 6036 – Method and Theory II
RLG 6183 – Religion and Environmental Ethics

Fall 2023

IDS 1114 – Ethics and Public Sphere
IDS 2935 – God, Humanity & Evolution
IDS 2935 – Post Holocaust American Jews
IDS 2935 – Nature, Spirituality, and Pop Culture
REL 2071 – Religion and Sustainability
REL 2121 – American Religious History
REL 2300 – Introduction to World Religions
REL 2341 – Intro to Buddhism
REL 2502 – Intro to Christianity
REL 2600 – Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
REL 2930 – Broadcasting Diaspora
REL 3099 – Spirituality and Health Care
REL 3120 – Religion and the American Immigrant Experience
REL 3140 – Religion and Society
REL 3148/RLG 5937 – Religion and Violence
REL 3213 – Hebrew Bible as Literature
REL 3330 – Religions of India
REL 3938 – Indigenous Religions of the World
REL 4145/RLG 5365 – Gender, Women, Sexuality and Religion
REL 4933 – Senior Seminar (Comparative Religions)
REL 5338 – Hindu Traditions I
RLG 6107 – Core Seminar In Religion And Nature
WST 3371 – Women, Leadership, and Diversity in a Global Environment
WST 3415 – Transnational Feminism

Summer 2023

IDS 2935 – Religion and Social Movements

Spring 2023

IDS 2935 –Self in Asian philosophy
IDS 2935 – Religious Extremism
REL 2104 – Environmental Ethics
REL 2121 – American Religious History
REL 2315 – Religions of Asia
REL 2362 – Intro to Islam
REL2502 – Intro to Christianity
REL2930 – Introduction to Jewish Thought
REL 3076 – Cults and New Religious Movements
REL 3082 – Global Ethics
REL 3098 – Religion, Medicine, and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives
REL 3191 – Death and Afterlife in World Religions
REL 3931 – Junior Seminar
REL 3938 – Islam in South Asia
REL 3938 – Buddhist Philosophy
REL 3938 – Political Fantasies of Zion
REL 3938 – Jews and Orientalism
REL 4141 – Religion and Social Change
RLG 5937 – Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective

Fall 2022

Identity in American Buddhism – IDS 2935
Religion and Social Movements – IDS 2935
Nature, Spirituality and Popular Culture – IDS 2935
God, Humanity & Evolution – IDS 2935
American Religious History – REL 2121
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
Indigenous Religions of the Americas – REL 2388
Jews, Judaism and Jewishness – REL 2600
Myth and Ritual – REL 3022/RLG 5937
Spirituality and Health Care – REL 3099
Religion and Violence – REL 3148
The Christian Gospels – REL 3249
Jews and Popular Culture – REL 3938
Religion and the Paranormal – REL 3938
Religion and Nature in North America – REL 4103/RLG 5199
The Pentateuch: The Pentateuch I – REL 4221
Islam in Africa – REL 4371/RLG 6709
Religion and Psychology – REL 4400/RLG 5937/PSY 4930
Senior Seminar (Comparative Religions) – REL 4933
Women and Islam – REL 4936/RLG 5365
Ethics after the Holocaust – REL 4936

Summer 2022

American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion, Medicine, and Healing – REL 3098/RLG 5937

Spring 2022

Selfhood in Asian Traditions – IDS 2935
Post-Holocaust US Jews – IDS 2935
Women and Religion and Popular US Fiction – IDS 2935
American Religious History – REL 2121
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Religion, Medicine and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3098
Global Religions in the United States – REL 3136
Ethics in America – REL 3171
Death and Afterlife: Perspectives from World Religions – REL 3191
Apocalypticism – REL 3294/JST 3930
Religions of India – REL 3330
Junior Seminar – REL 3931
Islam in South Asia – REL 3938/RLG 5338
Religion and the Paranormal – REL 3938
The Old Testament in the New: The Jewish Foundations of the Christian Scriptures – REL 3838/JST 3930
Vodou and Christianity in Haiti – REL 3938/AFA 3930/LAS 3930/HAI 3930
Environmental Values and Practice – REL 4188
Environmental Values and Practice – REL 4188 (CURE)
Global Islam – REL 4368/RLG 5361/POS 4931
Islam, Media and Pop Culture – REL 4936
Journey to the West – REL 4936/CHT 4603/MEM 4931
Muslim Thought and Practice II – RLG 5937
Method and Theory II – RLG 6036
Religion in the Americas – RLG 6126
Religion and Environmental Ethics – RLG 6183

Fall 2021

Islam in Africa – REL 4371/RLG5338/AFS4935
Religion and Violence – REL 3148
Introduction to Christianity – REL 2502
American Religious History – REL 2121
Method and Theory I – RLG 6035
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Myth and Ritual – REL 3022
Spirituality and Health Care – REL 3099
Post-Holocaust US Jews – IDS 2935
Religions of Asia – REL 2315
God, Humanity, and Evolution (Period 3) – IDS 2935
God, Humanity, and Evolution (Period 6) – IDS 2935
Jews and Popular Culture – REL 3938
Comparative Study (Senior Seminar) – REL 4933
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Religion and Nature – RLG 6107
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
Chinese Buddhism – REL 3938
Nature, Spirituality & Popular Culture – IDS 2935

Summer 2021

Ethics in the Public Sphere – IDS 2935
Religion and Sustainability – REL 2071

Spring 2021

Religions of India – REL 3330
Religion and Psychology – REL 3938
Pentateuch II: Exodus-Deuteronomy – REL 3938/REL 4221/ JST 4936
The Hebrew Bible as Literature – REL 3213/JST 3920
Women and Religion in Popular US Fiction – IDS 2935
Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism – REL 2930/JST 2930
Death and Afterlife in World Religions – REL 3191
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Global Islam – REL 4368/POS 4931
Buddhist Meditation – REL 4349/RLG 5338
Buddhist Philosophy – REL 3939/PHIL 3930
Religion and Nature in North America – REL 3103/RLG 5199
Religion and Politics in Latin America – REL 4382
Religions in Latin America – RLG 6387
Shamans and Shamanisms – REL 3938/ANT 3930
Indigenous Religious Traditions of the Americas – REL 2388/ANT3930
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Religion and the Paranormal – REL 3938
Junior Seminar – REL 3931
American Religious History – REL 2121
Religious Extremism – IDS 2935
Global Ethics – REL 3082
Global Ethics (CURE Section) – REL 3082

Fall 2020

Nature, Spirituality, & Popular Culture – IDS 2935
Islam in South Asia – REL 3938
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
Chinese Religions – REL 3318
Spirituality and Healthcare – REL 3099
Religion, Medicine and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3098
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Myth and Ritual – REL 3022
Religion and Violence – REL 3148
American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion in North America – RLG 6137
Uncommon Read: Animals and Why They Matter, by Mary Midgley – IDH 2930
Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change – IDS 2935
Religion, Ethics, and Nature – REL 3492
Comparative Study (Senior Seminar) – REL 4933
Pentateuch I: Genesis-Exodus – REL 3983/REL 4221/JST 4936
Introduction to Hindu Culture – REL 2301
Religions of Asia – REL 2315
God, Humanity and Evolution – REL IDS 2935
Beginning Sanskrit I – SRK 1120
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Post-Holocaust American Jews and Judaism – REL 3938/JST 3930
Jews and American Popular Culture – REL 3938
Religion and Politics – REL 4936/CPO 4931

Summer 2020

Islam, Media, and Popular Culture – REL 3938/AFS 4935
Religion and Science – REL 3160
Religion, Medicine and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3098
Religion and Sustainability – REL 2071
American Religious History – REL 2121

Spring 2020

Method and Theory II – RLG 6036
Global Islam – REL 4368/POS 4931/RLG 5361
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Women and Islam – REL 4361/RLG 5937
Muslim Thought and Practice, II – RLG 5365
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Ethics in the Public Sphere (Honors) – IDS 2935
Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Religious Studies – RLG 5937/WST 6935
American Religious History – REL 2121
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
Junior Seminar – REL 3931
Religion in Modern India – REL 3336
Introduction to the New Testament – REL 2240/REL 3938/RLG 5297
Gender and the Hebrew Bible – REL 3291/JST 3930
Religion and Nature in North America – REL 3103
Religion and the Paranormal – REL 2930/3938
Religion in the Americas – REL 4936/RLG 6126
Indigenous Values – IDS 2935
Death and Afterlife – REL 3191
Introduction to Judaism – REL 2930/JST 2930

Fall 2019

Muslim Thought and Practice – RLG 5937
Senior Seminar – REL 4933
Women and Religion in Popular U.S. Fiction – REL 2930
American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion and Food – REL 3140
Religions of India – REL 3300
Religions of Africa – REL 3370/RLG 5937/AFS 4935/AFS 6905
Religious Extremism – REL 4936/RLG 5365
Indigenous Religions of the World – REL 3938/ANT3930/ANG6930
Religion and Sustainability – REL 2071/LAS 3930
Religions of Asia – REL 2315
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Global Religions in the United States – REL 3938
Nature, Spirituality, and Popular Culture – IDS 2935
Early Judaism & Christianity – REL 3321/JST 3930
Hebrew Scriptures – REL 2210/REL 3938/JST 3930
Religion, Medicine, and Healing – REL3098 / ANT 3930
Ethics in America – REL 3171
Method and Theory I – RLG 6035 (Course Readings)
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Spirituality and Health Care – REL 3938
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300

Summer 2019

American Religious History– REL 2121
Religion in Asia – REL 2315
Introduction to Islam (Summer A) – REL 2362
Religion and Science (Summer B) – REL 3160
Religion, Medicine, and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives (Summer B) – REL 3098/ ANT 3930

Spring 2019

Junior Seminar –REL 3931
Apocalypticism – REL 3294/JST 3930
Post-Holocaust American Jews & Judaism – REL 3938/JST 3930
Jewish Culture – REL 2930/JST 2930
Method & Theory II – RLG 6036
Death & Afterlife – REL 3191
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Global Islam – REL 4936/5931
Religion in Florida – REL 3938
New Testament – REL 2240
Women & Islam (Undergraduate) – REL 4361
Women & Islam (Graduate) – REL 5361
Contemporary Shamanisms – REL 3938 & 5937/ANT 3930 & 6930
Indigenous Religious Traditions of the Americas – REL 2388/ANT 3930
Gender and Religion – REL 3938
Spirituality and Healthcare – REL 3938
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Religion and Nature in North America – REL 3103
Religion and Social Change – REL 4141/RLG 5195
Ethics in the Public Sphere – IDS 2935
Democracy in America – IDH 3931 (2683)
American Religious History – REL 2121
Islam in Africa – REL 3371/AFS 4935 & AFS 6905

Fall 2018

American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion in North America – REL 6137
Religion and Violence – REL 3148
Environmental Ethics – RLG 6183
Religion in Latin America – REL 3381/LAS3930
Hebrew Scriptures – REL 2210/3938/JST 2930
Chinese Religions – REL 3318
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Women and Religion in Popular US Fiction – REL 2930
Religions of Asia – REL 2315
Myth and Ritual – REL 3022/ANT 3930
Religion, Medicine, and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3938/ANT3930
Islam and Popular Culture in Africa – SSA 4930/RLG 5937
Religion and the American Immigration Experience – REL 3120
Civil Rights and Religion – REL 3938/AFA 3357
- Course Outline & Assignments
History of Yoga – REL 2930
Islam in the Americas – REL 4393/AFA4931
- Course Outline & Assignments
Islam in the Americas (Grad Section) – RLG 5365
Senior Seminar – REL 4933
New Approaches to Islam and Muslim Societies after Orientalism – RLG 5937/AFS 6905
Religions in Modern India – REL 3337
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300

Summer B 2018

Religion & Science – REL 3160
American Religious History – REL 2121

Summer A 2018

Religion, Medicine, and Healing – REL 3098/ ANT 3930
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362

Spring 2018

Russian and East Central European Jews – RUT 3930
Women & Islam (Graduate) – RLG 5361 (Course Outline)
Women & Islam (Undergrad) – REL 4361/AAS 3930 (Course Outline)
Global Islam – REL 4936/RLG 5361
Gender and the Hebrew Bible – REL 3291/JST 3930
Junior Seminar – REL 3931
New Testament – REL 2240
Buddhism and Film – REL 3938/CHI 4930
Introduction to Judaism – REL 2600/JST 2930
Post-Holocaust American Jews & Judaism – REL 3938/JST 3930
Contemporary Shamanisms – REL 3938/RLG 5937/ANT 3930/ANG 6930
Indigenous Religious Traditions of the Americas – REL 2388/ANT 3930
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Sacred Geographies – REL 4491/5338
Intro. to World Religions – REL 2300
Religion and Society – REL 3140
Death & Afterlife in World Religions – REL 3191
Introduction to Christianity – REL 2502
Beginning Sanskrit 2 – SRK 1121/6905
Religions of Asia – REL 2315
Islam in Europe – REL 3938/EUR 3930
Religion and the American Immigration Experience – REL 3120
American Religious History – REL 2121
American Buddhism – REL 4936/5338

Fall 2017

Introduction to Christianity – REL 2502
Religion, Medicine, & Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3098
Method & Theory I – RLG 6035
Religion in Latin America – REL 3381/LAS 3930
Introduction to Buddhism – REL 2341
American Religious History – REL 2121
Radical Environmentalism – REL 3938/RLG 6167
Chinese Religions – REL 3318
Buddhist Meditation – REL 4349
Beginning Sanskrit – SRK 1120/6905
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362 (Course Outline)
Martin & Malcolm – REL 3938/AFA 3930
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Senior Seminar – REL 4933
Islam in Africa – REL 3371/AFS 4935 RLG 5365/AFS 6905
Early Judaism & Early Christianity – REL 3321/JST 3938
Religions of India – REL 3330
Islam and Nature – REL 3938
Introduction to Judaism – REL2600/JST2930
Pentateuch II: Exodus-Deuteronomy – REL 4221/JST 4936/RLG 5696
Professional Development Seminar

Summer 2017

American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion and Violence – REL 3148
Religion, Medicine, & Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3098

Spring 2017

Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion in Asia – REL 2315
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Death and Afterlife in World Religions – REL 3191
Junior Seminar – REL 3931
Pentateuch I: Genesis-Exodus – REL 4221/5696/JST 4936
Jesus on TV – REL 3938
Modern Islamic Thought (undergrad) – REL 4367/POS 4931
Modern Islamic Thought (graduate) – RLG 5365/POS 6933
New Approaches to Islam and Muslim Societies after Orientalism – RLG 5937/AFS 6905
Sacred Plants – REL 3988/5937 / ANT 3930/6930
Religions in Latin America – REL 6387/LAS 6938
Religion and Animals (undergrad) – REL 3938
Religion and Animals (graduate) – REL 5936
Religion and Food – REL 3108
Indigenous Religions of the World – REL 3938/ANT 3930/6930
Environmental Ethics – REL 2104
Cults and New Religious Movements – REL 3076
Religion, Nature, & Society (undergrad) – REL4186
Religion, Nature, & Society (graduate) – REL 6185
Islam in Europe – REL 3938/EUR 3930
Islam in the Americas – REL 4393/LAS 4935
Hindu Traditions – RLG 5338

Fall 2016

Religion & Nature in North America – REL 3103/RLG 5199
Martin & Malcolm – REL 3938/AFA 3930 (Course Assignments)
Religion & Nature – RLG 6107
Acts, Paul, and Earliest Christianity – REL 3252
Apocalypticism – REL 3295/JST3930
Intro. to World Religion – REL 2300
Religion and Sustainability – REL 2071
Religion and Fieldwork – REL 4936/RLG 5195
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
What is the Good Life? – IUF 1000
Senior Seminar – REL 4933
Fall 2016 Syllabus – REL 2121
Religions of Latin America – REL 3938/LAS 3930
Global Islam – REL 4936/RLG5361
Religion in Asia – REL2315
Chinese Religions – REL 3318
What’s Wrong with You? Religion as Diagnosis, Fear, and Therapy – REL 3938
Intermediate Sanskrit I – SRK 2200
Interpreting Asian Religions – RLG 6319
Ethics, Utopias, and Dystopias – REL 4092/RLG 6095
Ethics in America – REL 3171
Religion in the Americas – RLG 6126
Indigenous Religious Traditions of the Americas – REL 2388/ANT 3930
Introduction to Christianity – REL 2502

Summer 2016

American Religious History – REL 2121
Religion & Violence – REL 3148
Religion, Medicine, and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives – REL 3938/ ANT 3930

Spring 2016

American Religious History – REL 2121
Introduction to Islam – REL 2362
Junior Seminar – REL 3931/6859
The Hebrew Bible as Literature – REL 3213 / JST 3930
Buddhism: Traditions & Transformations – REL 3938
Religious Conversion – REL 4936/5696 EUH 3931/5934 JST 4936
Introduction to World Religions – REL 2300
Religion in Latin America – REL 3381/LAS 3930
Women & Islam – REL 4361/5364 WST 4930/4352 AAS 3930
Religion & Society – REL 3140/ANT 3930
From Disney to Avatar: Nature & Spirituality in Popular Culture – REL 3938
Environmental Ethics – REL 6183
Religion & Immigration in the Americas – REL 3120/LAS 3930
Religion & Evolution – REL 3938
Green Christianity – REL 3938
Jesus on TV – REL 3938
Global Ethics – REL 3938
Beginning Sanskrit II – SRK 1121
Women & Religion – REL 3938
Method & Theory II – REL 6036
Contemporary Shamanisms – REL 3938/5937/ANT 3930/6930
Religion & the News – REL 3938/JOU 4938
Religion & Bollywood – REL 3938

Summer 2015

American Religious History – REL 2121 (Summer A)
Religion, Healing, & Medicine – REL 3093/ANT 3930 (Summer B)