Spring 2016 Religion Course Offering

Course Number/Title	Days/Times	Credits	Professor
RE 103-001 - Religion & Culture	M 11:15 - 12:10 p.m. W/F 10:10 - 11:30 a.m.	4	G. Spinner
RE 103-002 - Religion & Culture	W/F 12:20 - 2:10 p.m.	4	D. Howlett
RE 103-003 - Religion & Culture	T/TH 3:40 - 5:30 p.m.	4	D. Howlett
RE 217 - Health & Healing	T/TH 2:10 - 3:30 p.m.	3	E. Kent
RE 225 - Religion & Ecology	W/F 8:40 - 10:00 a.m.	3	M. Stange
RE 230 - Mormonisms	T/TH 11:10 - 12:30 p.m.	3	D. Howlett
RE 303 - Religion in Cont. American Soc.	T/TH 3:40 - 5:30 p.m.	4	M. Stange
RE 330 - Religion & Society in Mod. India	M 11:15 - 12:10 p.m. W/F 11:10 - 12:30 p.m.	4	E. Kent
RE 375  - Senior Seminar - Material Religion	W/F 12:20 - 2:10 p.m.	4	G. Spinner
PR 326 - Tibetan Buddhism	M/W 2:30 - 4:20 p.m.	4	J. Smith

RE 330 - Religion and Society in Modern India

An examination of the dynamics of religious pluralism in modern India, one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world.   This course examines the vibrant and irrepressible role of religion in Indian society from the early modern Mughal and British periods to the contemporary moment, exploring how religion has both fostered social unity and exacerbated conflict.  Through close readings of nineteenth-and twentieth-century tracts and debates, mythological and ritual texts, oral traditions, novels and scholarly studies, we study the wide-ranging social effects of colonial rule on Indian religious traditions, especially Hinduism and Islam, and the creative responses of Indians to the challenges and opportunities of modernity.  Emphasizing the political and social dimensions of religion, the course will engage topics such as religious change and social mobility, the changing role of women in religion, the religious roots of the Indian Independence movement, religious violence and Gandhian non-violence, the surge of religious nationalism in the 1990s, the role of religion in environmental movements in India and the development of Hinduism in diaspora.