COURSES

Religious Studies Courses

All courses listed below are with Religious Studies professors, whose classes start with the designation RLST.  The only exception is for Religious Studies classes at Pitzer, where religious studies is taken as an area concentration and these courses are designated PZ.  Other courses outside of the 5Cs Religious Studies Intercollegiate program can be petitioned for possible major and/or concentration credit, subject to the approval by their college’s respective Religious Studies chair/coordinator.

• RLST 002 PO – Ideas of Love
• RLST 010 CM – Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
• RLST 012 CM – Devotional Worlds of South Asia
• RLST 015 CM – Myth and Religion
• RLST 020 PO – Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Text and Interpretation
• RLST 021 CM – Jewish Civilization
• RLST 022 CM – Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
• RLST 025 PO – Religion, Punishment, and Restoration in the U.S.
• RLST 037 CM – History of World Christianity
• RLST 040 PO – Religious Ethics
• RLST 043 CM – Introduction to Religious Thought
• RLST 045 CM – Sikhism
• RLST 048 PO – Nourishing Life: Techniques for Bodily, Mental, and Environmental Health in East Asian Writings
• RLST 049 PO – Buddhist Meditation Techniques and Cultures Across Asia
• PHIL 052 PZ – Philosophy of Religion
• RLST 055 CM – Jewish Art and Identity
• RLST 057 CM – Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy
• RLST 058 CM – The End of the World As We Know It
• RLST 059 CM – Dreams, Visions, and the Afterworld in Islamic Tradition
• RLST 060 SC – Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
• RLST 061 SC – New Testament and Christian Origins
• RLST 062 CM – Eat, Drink, and Be Jewish
• RLST 065 CM – Contemporary Issues in the Study of Islam: Gender, Violence, Modernity
• HIST 074 PZ – Queering the Medievial?
• RLST076 CM – History & Anthropology of Witchcraft
• RLST078 CM – Matriarchal Societies
• RLST 081 SC – Precolonial African Christian Spiritualities
• RLST 082 CM – African-American Religions
• RLST 083 CM – Hip-Hop, Religion and Revolution
• RLST 084 CM – Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
• PHIL 084 PZ – Islamic Philosophy
• RLST 085 SC – Conquered Colonized Christianity
• RLST 086 SC – Christianity, Capital & Communism
• RLST 087 CM – Israel: Zionism and the Jewish State
• RLST 089 CM – Religion, Race, and Economic Inequality in the Americas
• RLST 092 SC – Introduction to Early Christianities
• RLST 095 SC – Jesus, Paul, and Early Christian Sexualities
• PHIL 096 JT – God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason
• RLST 096 SC – Eros & Sex Antiquity & Byzantium
• RLST 097 SC – Queer African Christianities
• RLST 098 SC – Queering Christian Mysticism
• RLST 100 PO – Worlds of Buddhism
• RLST 101A CM – Sanskrit and the Indian Epics I – The Mahabharata
• RLST 101B CM – Sanskrit and the Indian Epics II – The Ramayana
• RLST 102 CM – Hinduism and South Asian Culture
• RLST 103 PO – Chinese Thought and Religions
• RLST 105 HM – Religions in American Culture
• RLST 107 PO – Buddhist Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
• RLST 109 CM – Readings in the Hindu Tradition
• RLST 110 PO – Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in East Asian Religions
• RLST 111 CM – Rebels, Radicals, and Religions on the Margins
• RLST 111 PO – Theology, Morality and Policy
• RLST 112 HM – Engaging Religion
• RLST 113 HM – God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
• RLST 114 HM – 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
• RLST 115 CM – Asian American Religions
• RLST 118 CM – Hindu Goddess Worship
• RLST 120 CM – The Life of Jesus
• RLST 125 CM – Race/Religion in Hollywood Films
• RLST 128 CM – Religion of Islam
• RLST 129 CM – Ancient Jewish Experience
• RLST 135 CM – Jerusalem: The Holy City
• RLST 136 CM – Religion in Contemporary America
• RLST 137 CM – Jewish-Christian Relations
• RLST 138 CM – American Religious History
• RLST 139 PO – Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 141 PO – The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation
• RLST 142 AF – The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
• RLST 143 CM – Philosophy of Religion
• RLST 144 PO – Religious Minorities in the Muslim World
• RLST 146 PO – Antisemitism
• RLST 147 HM – World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements
• RLST 150 AF – The Eye of God: Race, Sun, & Empire
• RLST 151 CM – Poverty, Religion, and Social Change
• RLST 152 PO – Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature
• RLST 153 CM – Religion and American Politics
• PHIL 155 PZ – Islam vs. Islam
• RLST 156 CM – European Reformations
• RLST 157 PO – Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
• RLST 158 PO – Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
• RLST159 CM – History of Christianity in Asia
• RLST 160 PO – Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
• RLST 161 CM – Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
• RLST 162 PO – Modern Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 163 CM – Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition
• RLST 164 PO – Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
• RLST 165 CM – Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• RLST166B CM – Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST 168 HM – Activism, Vocation, Justice
• RLST 167 SC – Early Christian-Muslim Relations: Baghdad to Barcelona
• RLST 169 CM – Christianity and Politics in East Asia
• HIST 170 PZ – Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire
• RLST 171 CM – Religion and Film
• HIST 173 PZ – Religion, Violence and Tolerance, 1450-1650
• RLST 173 CM – US Latino Religions and Politics
• RLST174 CM – Religion and the American Presidency
• HIST 175 PZ – Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700
• RLST 175 CM – Visions of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism and Buddhism
• RLST 176 CM – Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership
• RLST 177 PO – Gender and Religion
• RLST 179 HM – Special Topics in Religious Studies
• RLST180 CM – Interpreting Religious Worlds
• RLST 180 PO – Interpreting Religious Worlds
• RLST 181 PO – Prison, Punishment, Redemption
• RLST 183 HM – Ghosts and the Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media
• RLST 184 PO – Queer Theory and the Bible
• RLST 186 CM – Research Practicum in Archaeology
• RLST 187 PO – Queering Religion
• RLST189E PO – Feminist Theories and Feminist Theologies
• RLST189J PO – Prison Religion
• RLST 189K PO – Muslim (Auto)Biographies
• RLST 189L PO – Encountering the Qur’an
• RLST 189P PO – Critical Theory
• RLST189Q PO – Queer Theory and the Jewish Question
• RLST 189U PO – Islam in the United States
• RLST189Z PO – The Origins and Influences of the Zoroastrian Tradition
• RLST 190 PO – Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
• RLST191 PO – Senior Thesis
• RLST 191 SC – Senior Thesis