Spring 2016 Religion Course Offering
Course Number/Title | Days/Times | Credits | Professor |
---|---|---|---|
RE 103-001 - Religion & Culture |
M W/F |
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 W/F |
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.