CHRISTIANITY: INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICE

RELIGST 333

An exploration of Christianity's charter documents in the light of what modern scholarship has discovered about the New Testament's sociohistorical context, composition, theologies, and presentations of Jesus.

RELIGST 600

Theory and analysis of religion as a human phenomenon.

RELIGST 101

Foundational and thematic approaches in the academic study of religion applied across global religious systems.

RELIGST 420

Explores why and how religious studies matters as a helpful interpretative field across a variety of topics of interdisciplinary interest and societal concern.

RELIGST 103

An introductory examination of "what religion is" via investigation of how religious traditions imagine, interrogate, and regulate sexuality using several approaches in the discipline of religious studies. Focuses, although not exclusively, on the religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Greeks, Romans, Rabbinic Jews, and early Christians) and also considers the (re)construction of ideas and practices over time and contexts.