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Boston University
Graduate Program in Religion
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN612
Buddhism in America
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
FA24
The transplantation and transformation of Buddhism in the United States. Time period ranges from the 18th century to the present, but the emphasis is on contemporary developments, including the new Asian immigration, Jewish Buddhism, feminization, and engaged Buddhism.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Laura Harrington
TR
2:00PM-3:15PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN638
Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
FA24
A thematic introduction to mysticism and philosophy, with a focus on the dynamics of religious experience. Readings will be drawn from medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; Sufi mysticism and philosophy; Kabbalah, Sufi poetry, Hebrew poetry from the Golden Age of Muslim Spain.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Diana Lobel
TR
2:00pm-3:00PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN683
African Diaspora Religions
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
FA24
This course introduces students to religions of the African Diaspora, with a specific focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. Religious traditions such as Africanized Christianity, Cuban Santer?a, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl? and African American Spiritualism will be explored.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Margarita Guillory
MWF
12:20PM-1:10PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN685
Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
FA24
Questions of representation in literature and film about the Holocaust, including testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, Ozick, and others; films include documentaries and feature films. Discussions of the Holocaust as historical reality, metaphor, and generative force in literature.
Professor
Class Day & Time
TBD
TR
11:00AM-12:15PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN697
Topics in Philosophy and Religion
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
FA24
TBD
Professor
Class Day & Time
Joseph Decosimo
T
5:45PM-8:30PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN753
Topics in Religion and Sexuality
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
FA24
TBD
Professor
Class Day & Time
TBD
TBD
TBD
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
TBD
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN628
Modern Judaism
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
FA24
Encounters between Judaism and modernity from the Renaissance and Reformation; the Spanish expulsion and creation of Jewish centers in the New World; emancipation and its consequences; assimilation, Reform Judaism, Zionism, the American Jewish community, non-European communities, Jewish global migration, and modern antisemitism.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Steven Katz
TR
12:30PM-1:45PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN640
The Quran
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
FA24
The emergence of the Quran as a major religious text, its structure and literary features, its principle themes and places within the religious and intellectual life of the Muslim community.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Kecia Ali
TR
12:30PM-1:45PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN684
The Holocaust
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
FA24
Rise of German (and European) antisemitism; rise of Nazism; 1935 Nuremberg Laws; the initial Jewish reaction; racial theory; organizing mass murder including ghettos, concentration camps, killing squads, and gas chambers; bystanders and collaborators (countries, organizations, and individuals); Jewish resistance; post-Holocaust religious responses; moral and ethical issues.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Steven Katz
TR
3:30PM-4:45PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN696
Philosophy of Religion
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
FA24
Critical investigation of the limits of human knowledge and the theoretical and practical demands for meaning attached to notions of God, providence, immortality, and other metaphysical conditions of human thriving, from Plato to modern philosophies of religion.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Michael Zank
M
6:30PM-9:15PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
School
Boston University Graduate Program in Religion
CAS RN716
Religion, Race, and Climate Change
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
FA24
TBD
Professor
Class Day & Time
James Hill
T
3:30PM-6:15PM
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
MA/PHD Split
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