The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language to another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. 4.00 points. The course can be repeated for credit. 4 points. 4.00 points. Secularizing processes will be analyzed in relation to imperial histories in Africa. An introduction to the history, literature, and ideology of Tantra and Tantric texts, deities, rituals, and traditions, proceeding chronologically from the early centuries C.E. Special attention to Krishna's consort Radha, to Krishna's reception in the West, and to his portrayal on Indian television. All students are then allocated a faculty adviser, and must submit a copy of the Declaration of Major form to the director of undergraduate studies. 3 points. We will find that what counts as religion varies, sometimes dramatically, across times, spaces, and cultures; âAmericaâ is similarly unstable and contested. Our methods and approaches are multidisciplinary, combining textual, historical, sociological, anthropological, psychological, comparative, and cultural studies perspectives. 3 points. In this course, students will explore the complicated relationship between faith and the market, the religious and the secular, and the evolution of vice and virtue as they relate to economic thriving in the United States. Special attention will be given to the way psychological and religious preoccupation intersect to create the sense of an ending. Special attention will be given to the question of sacred places through a consideration of forests, deserts, gardens, mountains, caves, seas, and cemeteries. 3 points. Focus will be given to different Sephardic populations and the rich culture and variegated religious life therein. Topics include: knowledge, truth, concepts of self and God, religious experience and practice. To better understand such phenomena, this course provides a chronological survey that introduces students to a range of ideas and practices, individuals and institutions, as well as important themes and topics in African American (thus American) religious history. Phenomenology of religious experience and the historical forms of religious life. The frontier is central to the United Statesâ conception of its history and place in the world. for Certification, Applying for Whether it is Zen monks, ancient Christian martyrs, Muslim and Jewish women, Hindu saints or Chinese philosophers, our courses introduce you to people and phenomena from all over … Explores how Jews from antiquity to modernity have struggled to create a distinct Jewish identity in the context of dominant non-Jewish cultures. This course develops an understanding of the Qu'ran's form, style, and content through a close reading of comparable religious texts. For the most part queer studies and religious studies have met each other with great suspicion and little interest in the conceptual resources of the respectively other field. RELI GU4517 After the Human. As an exploration of the relationship between religion, race, and popular culture, the course will begin with theoretical readings that expose students to a variety of definitions of and approaches to each of these categories. 4 points. At the same time, African American religious life has been the subject of much scrutiny throughout the history of the United States, serving arguments that advocated abolition, emancipation and full enfranchisement, but also functioning as evidence to justify enslavement and second-class citizenship. This is a seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who wish to gain an understanding of the richness of Sufism (Islamic mysticism). Is there a Muslim "clergy"? RELI GU4514 Defining Marriage. How do ancient Chinese and Daoist ideas inform the development of Chinese Buddhist attitudes toward sex and diet? Explores the paradox of renunciation and power in early Christianity. Additional readings will give supplementary perspectives, raising questions that include the production history of the Book of Psalms, comparative mythology, the liturgical and ritual use of psalms historically, and mystical readings of the Book of Psalms. In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze "texts" ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. In addition to secondary studies representing the latest research in this burgeoning field, this course gives special attention to critical readings of shorter selections of primary sources translated into English, including sutras, monastic regulations, recipe collections, liturgical documents, and longevity manuals. What is the pedagogical value of silence? Prerequisites: prior coursework in religion or sociology is highly encouraged. Focuses on foundational "classics" and on a selection of texts, practices, and political engagements that shape contemporary religious experience in Asia. Consideration of the different function for male and female religious identity of factors such as the body and its appetites, power and renunciation, and authority and inspiration. Emphasis on the reading of original treatises and historiographies in translation, while historical events are discussed in terms of their relevance to contemporary problems confronted by Buddhism. 3 points. It will ask about the ubiquitous figure of the vampire, insofar as it evokes the ancient and the archaic, the modern and the postmodern. These interpreters will include the writers of later biblical texts; ancient translations; extra-canonical texts; Qumran texts; and Hellenistic Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic literature. The course is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in East Asian religion, literature, history, art history and anthropology. These notebooks reveal that Heidegger establishes a philosophical case for his prejudices against Jews, one which arguably cuts to the very heart of his thinking. RELI GU4509 Crime and Punishment in Jewish Culture. An exploration of Hasidism, the pietist and mystical movement that arose in eastern Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 3 points. Honors, Study By focusing upon the material context for religious performance-by asking, in other words, how religious traditions are constituted through and by material objects-the course will seek to shed light on a cluster of issues concerning the relationship between art, ritual performance, and transmission. 4 points. This opportunity is available to all students who major in the department, regardless of GPA, and serves for many as their undergraduate capstone experience. All texts will be read in the original but translations will be provided. Issues in the study of South Asian Religion, Readings in Tokugawa religious and intellectual history, Topics in Contemporary Religious Identity, The Papacy: Origins to the Sixteenth-Century Reformations, Issues of Gender in Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Material Culture and the Supernatural in East Asia, Religion in Black America: An Introduction, Jewish Perspective on Non-Jews from Antiquity to the Present, Introduction to Classical Rabbinic Literature, Classics fo Judaism: Ethics of the Fathers, Bridges and Boundaries: Inclusion and Exclusion through Interfaith Engagement, Animal Rights: Ethical and Religious Foundations, Interpreting Buddhist Yoga: Hermeneutics East West Quantum, Liberation and Embodiment in Indo-Tibetan Yoga Traditions, History of Christianity: Topics in Pre-Modern Papal History, Religion and International Development: Theory and Practice, Contemporary Mormonism: Mediating Religious Identity in the 21st Century City, Religion and Modern Western Individualism, Genealogy, Pragmatism and the Study of Religion, Revival and Revolution in the Muslim World, Interactions of Buddhism and Daoism in China, Psalms Through the Commentary of the Baal Shem Tov, Reading the Patriarchal and Matriarchal Stories in Genesis, Patriarchal and Rabbinic Authority in Antiquity, The Production of Jewish Difference from Antiquity to the Present, Theories of the Unconscious and Jewish Thought, Science, Nature, and Religion in 20th Century America, Defining Marriage: A History of Marriage in the United States, The African American Prophetic Political Tradition from David Walker to Barack Obama, Exodus and Politics: Religious Narrative as a Source of Revolution, The Science-Religion Encounter in Contemporary Context, Mystical and Dimensions of Islam and Judaism, Migration and Religious Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective. has been considerable. The class is not a survey of all religious traditions. Students will have the option of writing a term paper or doing a project related to the course readings. Special attention will be given to Displacement and Replacement in New York City. In this course we will read English scholarship that probes the complex relationships between Buddhism and Daoism in the past two millennia. Throughout the course we will tack back and forth between theoretical works and ethnographic/historical writing, in order to articulate what is probably the most difficult aspect of original research: how to bring together âhigh theoryâ and primary sources ranging from field research to data drawn from a variety of media. In the past century, advances in theories of how to read the Babylonian Talmud, the Bavli, and in the models of its formation and redaction have opened up new avenues for understanding what the text says and, more importantly, how it works. Introduction to the comparative study of mysticism. RELI GU4637 Talmudic Narrative. 212.851.4122. Major topics include the Qu'ranic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the biblical tradition (both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on the pre-Islamic pagan religion. Writing a senior thesis qualifies a student for consideration for departmental honors but does not assure it. He ponders, instead, if such a historicist analysis should be followed by an emphatic âBut so what?â The importance of asking âso whatâ is that it allows us to begin to refuse, Scott writes, âhistory its subjectivity, its constancy, its eternityâ and âinterrupt its seemingly irrepressible succession, causality, its sovereign claim to determinacyâ (105) The question âso what?â requires, in other words, we answer for historyâs prominence and providence as well as consider other possible formations of community, temporality, and inheritance not anchored by the weight of âhistoryâ. This interdisciplinary course explores a variety of Muslim modes of masculinity as they have developed over time and as they have varied across different regions of the Islamic World.  In reality, popular culture is something that everyone has easy access to, and represents a common language of the people. The course is organized thematically rather than chronologically. Special attention will be paid to their contrasting interpretations of time and their alternative accounts of the work of art. Historical introduction to Buddhist thought, scriptures, practices, and institutions. This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become âsacredâ through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. Seminar focused on a special theme in the interdisciplinary study of religion (e.g., religious violence, religion and the secular, religious space). 4 points. After an overview of pre-Freudian notions of the unconscious, the course will examine Freud’s 1896 Theory of the unconscious mind and the key analytical concepts which display similarities between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, from Talmudic hermeneutics to Kabbalah studies. 3 points. migration, urbanization, nationalism) through a rich engagement with the religious practices and traditions of black communities. Undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and contemporary Jewish rites of passage and life-cycles events, focusing on the interplay between ritual and gender, sexuality and power. With this in mind, we will not be attempting to identify what religion is, so much as the ways in which historical actors understood themselves to be religious. What are the objects of inquiry in these writings? This course examines the major issues and themes of critical monster studies. Employees, Postbac Premed In this context, for Blacks âfreedom is like religion.â Like religion. The Institute for Research in African-American Studies was established at Columbia in 1993, expanding the University’s commitment to this field of study. 4 points. These lectures constitute, in many ways, the culmination of Foucaultâs work on power, sexuality, subjectivity and the discursive operations whereby knowledge is produced. Examines Kant's claim that religious thought and practice arise out of the moral life, and Kierkegaard's distinction between morality and religious faith. Readings include Gilgamesh, and other ancient Near Eastern literature, the Bible, the Odyssey, Plato's Phaedo, Apuleius' The Golden Ass. It is an abstract concept that reflects the American mythology of progress and is rooted in religious ideas about land, labor, and ownership. Examination of the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, as it has influenced modern forms of political and social revolution, with emphasis on political philosopher Michael Walzer. 3 points. Primary texts read against the backdrop of various theories of the nature of mysticism, addressing issues such as relationship of mysticism and tradition and the function of gender in descriptions of mystical experiences. Historical, theological, social and ritual dimensions of "lived Hinduism" in the greater New York area. Scholarships, Federal and State East Asian art and literature inspired by it. This interdisciplinary seminar investigates the intersections between language and religion in South Asia over the course of two millennia. and Ph.D. program at Columbia University. From the medieval period to the twenty-first century, we will discuss their interactions, polemics and influences. Students read primary texts against the backdrop of various theories on the nature of mysticism, addressing issues such as the relationship of mysticism to orthodox religion, madness, art, love, and morality. This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. What sorts of shifts have occurred at centers of Islamic learning in the modern period? Examines Pascal's claim that to the extent that the Bible can be said to have a philosophy, it is contained in the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes. Clinical and Research Opportunities, Premedical 4 points. Coaching, Pre-Professional The Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies are becoming interconnected to transform what once was known as human being. Analysis of the writings of the Persian mystics, Attar and Rumi. Admissions, Postbac Premed Close examination of Maimonides' major ideas, with emphasis on the relationship between law and philosophy; biblical interpretation; the nature of God; creation and providence; human nature; ethics and law; and human perfection. How do religious practitioners utilize these spaces and their narratives in order to negotiate various facets of daily life, and in order to situate themselves within the religious landscape of South Asia? The inquiry will consider the relationships between time and truth, knowledge, subject/object, transcendence, origin, history, memory, and spirit, as well as approaches to temporal cohesion and rupture. Our course will examine how our questions about religion shift once we start paying attention to queerness, gender, sexuality, pleasure, pain, and desire. Deadlines and Decisions, Postbac Premed What does a writer's last work tell us about his or her other works? This seminar will reexamine the question of place and locality in an era characterized by virtualization and delocalization brought by digital media, electronic technology, and globalization. Offers an opportunity to gain experience in close reading of major Jewish texts in the original language (Hebrew). Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with the emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, identity. Grants, Private 3 points. RELI UN2670 Magic and Modernity. He was 22 at the time. Concentrations, Academic This course is a seminar open to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to gain an understanding of the diverse religious traditions of the Iranian world from ancient to contemporary times. This course situates Muslim women as complex, multidimensional actors engaged in knowledge production and political and feminist struggles. This seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students is an interdisciplinary investigation of how Sufism has been affected by the historical, sociocultural, political, and everyday environments in which is it experienced and practiced, with a particular focus on South Asia. Investigates the debate around the "origins" of Arab nationalism and various strands of modernist/reformist thought in the contemporary Islamic world - with particular emphasis on developments in Egypt and Iran. We will analyze their theories and their literary evidence while applying their models to the critical reading of the text. The deadline for application for the honors thesis in religion is the last day of exams in the student's junior spring term, and must be submitted for approval to the director of undergraduate studies. RELI UN1620 Religion and the Movies. 3 points. The following table and chart show the ethnic background for students who recently graduated from Columbia University … The Department of Classics participates, together with Art History and Archaeology, History, and Philosophy, in the Classical Studies Program, an inter-departmental, interdisciplinary M.A. Admissions, How to Apply, Information Our guiding questions will be: What does religion have to do with queerness? Majors and concentrators in religion gain both a foundation in the study of religious traditions in historical contexts and zones of inquiry, all grounded in theoretical and methodological debates that shape academic and public discussions about religion. Please visit Religion Is the market a religious system? The seminar will give students first-hand experience with Mormonism as it is lived in New York City today. Examines the competing currents within early Christianity, with emphasis placed on the literary and social expressions of Christian belief and identity. Grants, Private Provides students simultaneous exposure to a major biblical book, Psalms, which has a long and rich reception history, both textually and spiritually, as well as to a significant text of Hasidic thought. 4.00 points. Historical survey highlighting major developments in Chinese religion: includes selections from the "Warring States" classics, developments in popular Daoism, and an overview of the golden age of Chinese Buddhism. And what does God have to do with it? 4.00 points. RELI UN3210 Millennium: Apocalypse and Utopia. The advent of high-speed computing, Big Data, new forms of Artificial Intelligence, and global networking is rapidly transforming all aspects of life. To what degree did it shape the language of revolutionary Marxism both in Europe and Africa, as the work of Fanon notably testifies? Muslim female reformers and revolutionaries were at the forefront of many of the 20th and early 21st centuriesâ historic socio-political and religious movements across the Global South. 4 points. Study of a single deity in the Hindu pantheon as illuminated in art, music, dance, drama, theological treatises, patterns of ritual, and texts both classic and modern. An attempt to trace historically how the holidays took on their present form and, when feasible, to emphasize the different modes of observances among different groups. Coaching, Pre-Professional Together we will wonder about a variety of core issues in queer studies and religion, such as embodiment, sexuality, gender-variability, coloniality, race appearing as religious identity and religious identity as gendered, as well as the role of catastrophe, utopia, and redemption in our experience of the world. In addition, the University's wide offerings in the languages of various religious traditions (including Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Latin, Sanskrit, and Tibetan) augment many students' abilities to conduct research in religion. 4 points. Each week, a faculty member will present his or her field of specialization and methodological/theoretical approach to it. This course introduces students to a number of models for interfaith dialogue and collaboration, as they are practiced in New York City and elsewhere.
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