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Harvard Divinity School
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1260
History of Early Christianity
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
This course will provide a basic historical introduction to early Christianity from the first to fourth centuries CE. How did different Christians in this period navigate the diverse teachings, rituals, and social practices associated with Jesus of Nazareth to produce a religious movement that came to dominate the Roman Empire, even as it was itself always complex, variegated, and internally contested from its earliest moments? Throughout the course, we will explore the diversity of early Christian thought and practice across a range of topics and geographical areas, as well as the ways in which Christians situated themselves within the larger Roman world and in relation to others both internal and external. This is an introductory-level course and it offers the possibility of writing a research paper. Note that the course is designed to complement and build upon HDS 1202 "Introduction to the New Testament." Each can be taken as a standalone class or the two can be taken in any order; but overlap between them will be kept to a minimum. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 2432.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Dunning
T
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Note that the course is designed to complement and build upon HDS 1202 "Introduction to the New Testament." Each can be taken as a standalone class or the two can be taken in any order; but overlap between them will be kept to a minimum
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1602
Neither Witches nor Saints: Women of the Ancient Mediterranean
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich rightfully wrote: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” It is true that women have been left out of the historical narrative and were only mentioned when they were exceptional or “ill-behaved”; between the witches and the saints, the stories of ordinary women and mothers have been muted. Throughout this course, we will focus on the longue durée of the Eastern Mediterranean and explore its stories of ordinary women from paganism to Christianity. We will examine a wide range of bioarchaeological remains, material culture, and sacred spaces to reconstruct the lives of ordinary women. Some of the questions we will answer are: What tools and technologies are associated with women of the past? How did women navigate patriarchal societies, religions, and medicine? How did they use prayers, incantations and medicinal recipes to heal their infants and the maternal body? Were women confined to the "domestic space?" How did women and mothers claim sacred spaces? The course will draw on theological and historical studies, anthropological theories, and archaeological methods to explore the ancient lives of ordinary women—students will dive into critical research and reinterpretation of material evidence to build engaging presentations and original argument-based papers.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Mady
W
01:00pm-02:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This course is limited to 15 participants. For permission to enroll, please email a paragraph to Prof. Mady (smady@hds.harvard.edu) describing your interest in the class and any relevant background.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1637
Jewish Mysticism: From the Spanish Expulsion to the New Age
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
SP26
This course will examine the phenomenon known as Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, beginning with the Spanish Expulsion (1492) and extending to the present. Its focus will be on major movements of kabbalistic activity from Lurianic Kabbalah, Sabbateanism, Renaissance Kabbalah, Lithuanian Kabbalah, Hasidism, Neo-Hasidism, and Kabbalah in the New Age. The focus will be on changing and developing kabbalistic systems, questions of messianism and redemption, history, heresy, and the impact of modernity and postmodernity on kabbalistic praxis. Larger questions on mystical religion, law, secularism, and the differences between normative religion and spirituality will also be discussed.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Magid
W
01:00pm-02:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1702
Greek Exegesis of Galatians and Romans
BTI Category
Semester
Scripture & Biblical Studies
SP26
This course will be devoted to a close reading of the Apostle Paul’s Letters to the Galatians and the Romans. We will translate and discuss the Greek text of each letter with specific attention to interpretive issues and historical context. Three semesters of Greek are highly recommended. Two semesters may be permissible with instructor permission. The course can be used to fulfill the requirement for a fourth semester of Greek. This is a limited enrollment class. Please email the instructor (bdunning@hds.harvard.edu) with a short introduction including relevant background and reasons for wanting to enroll in the course. Students will be notified of acceptance before the enrollment deadline.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Dunning
T
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
This is a limited enrollment class. Please email the instructor (bdunning@hds.harvard.edu) with a short introduction including relevant background and reasons for wanting to enroll in the course. Students will be notified of acceptance before the enrollment deadline.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2031
Introduction to Chaplaincy in Higher Education
BTI Category
Semester
Practical/Pastoral Theology
SP26
This course engages the theory and practice of chaplaincy in settings of higher education in the United States. Drawing on the rich history of multireligious ministries in higher education and the range of expressions chaplaincy assumes, the course will provide an overview of the strategies, practices, contextual analyses, and narratives of practitioners in the field. Through a series of lectures, open discussions, site visits, chaplaincy narratives and personal as well as collaborative reflection, the class will provide students with encounters with the vocation of chaplaincy in its multifaith, pluralistic expression in the 21st century academy. Course Objectives: - Provide an introductory overview of the history of chaplaincy on college and university campuses in the United States- Interrogate the variety of purposes and missions that inform chaplaincies in various settings of higher education- Explore the range of structures and practices chaplaincy assumes in its diverse contexts- Interrogate approaches to the dismantling of white supremacy in higher education chaplaincy settings- Investigate and highlight best practices in chaplaincy- Explore the qualifications and opportunities for professional employment in higher education chaplainciesSpecial Schedule Notation: This spring term course is offered intensively for one week in January during semester recess in the week before classes begin, Monday-Friday 10:00-AM-3:30 PM. The course also includes four mandatory morning seminars (7:00-9:00 AM) , once in the fall term in November 20 and three times in the spring term in February, March, and April. Enrollment is limited. Registrants must contact the instructor beginning September 8 in the years offered to pre-register. First-come, first-served. Requirements for the course include written responses to the required readings, a book report, a daily journal, a group research project, two seminar presentations, and a final research project or paper.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Maloney
JTERM
07:00am-09:00am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Special Schedule Notation: This spring term course is offered intensively for one week in January during semester recess in the week before classes begin, Monday-Friday 10:00-AM-3:30 PM. The course also includes four mandatory morning seminars (7:00-9:00 AM) , once in the fall term in November 20 and three times in the spring term in February, March, and April. Enrollment is limited. Registrants must contact the instructor beginning September 8 in the years offered to pre-register. First-come, first-served. Requirements for the course include written responses to the required readings, a book report, a daily journal, a group research project, two seminar presentations, and a final research project or paper.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2135
Christian Theological Imagination: Anglican Angles
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
SP26
How do Christian theological traditions shape and catalyze our imagination? How might that imagination inform communal engagement, prayer, the inner workings of our faculties of perception, or our experiences of embodiment? This course explores these questions through an Anglican prism (using theological writings chiefly from the Church of England and The Episcopal Church). Along the way it will also consider assertions like Urban Holmes's that Anglicanism itself inculcates a peculiar "consciousness," a perception of "mystery in the ordinary." Week by week, topics will include: Anglicanism's liturgical orientation; its range of approaches to scripture; its theologies of preaching; its abiding interest in mystical theology and its turns to asceticism; its long tradition of spiritual poetry, of visual art, and imaginative fiction; its contextual, congregational grounding. Readings will range historically from the English Reformation to the present, and will include Anglican Divines (Donne, Herbert), Evelyn Underhill, Rowan Greer, William Countryman, Rowan Williams, Mark Chapman, Austin Farrer, Sarah Coakley, Louis Weil, Verna Dozier, local artist Allan R. Crite, and the writer Madeleine L'Engle.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Walton
TBD
TBD
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2188
The Protestant Reformations
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
The sixteenth-century was a time of unprecedented turmoil and rapid change in Europe, shaped by events that were specific to the time but will also feel familiar: new media, rising nationalism, internal and colonial aggression against racial others and religious minorities, plague, urbanization, populism, and major economic shifts. All of these shaped emerging religious movements in various ways with aftereffects that would lead to the reordering of human life on a global scale. This course looks at the historical and intellectual context out of which Protestantism emerged and considers its longstanding global impact. It is designed to be an introductory course, but more involved research opportunities will be made available for advanced students in consultation with the professor. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1469.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Sanchez
T
12:00pm-02:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2299
Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
The course will examine the relationship between race and liberalism in the formation of the U.S. legal system, focusing in particular on the use of moral (and religious) doctrines both to reinforce and repudiate legal codes and institutional practices designed to enslave and subjugate dispossessed and ‘disinherited’ groups in the U.S. Framed by Charles Mills’ category of “racial liberalism” -- the racialization of personhood, rights and public duties -- the course will explore through court cases, trial transcripts, first-person narratives, and political philosophy how efforts to promote a color-blind society often appeal to religious claims that undermine liberal theories of justice and equality. At issue is the role of religion and ethics in debates on law and justice. How, if at all, can religion as well as ethical frameworks explain the tension between law and justice and grapple with social matters that are legally protected but morally offensive.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Johnson
M
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2424
American Judaism
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
SP26
How have American Jews engaged with Judaism and indeed how have they defined it? How has Judaism, understood as a religious system shaped both the interactions between Jews and between Jews and other Americans? The course will examine these issues through a variety of lenses, including, but not limited to: ordinary Jewish women and men, the clergy, the infrastructure of religious institutions, the American state, and other Americans, organized as they were through their denominations and churches.We will be looking at this over the long arc of historical time, going back to the mid-seventeenth century and moving into the present and the course will be framed chronologically. Throughout we will be asking how Jews defined religion and how they saw it and how it differed from other forms of Jewish identification and belonging. How did this change over time and what issues, particularly those involving religious authority and (or versus) the will of the laity, persisted, albeit in different form? It will become clear that not all Jews conceived of Judaism in the same ways and the course will explore the constant tug between inner Jewish diversity and quests for unity and conformity. We will in addition be concerned with how being defined as members of a religious, or faith, community shaped American Jews’ interactions with other Americans, predominantly Christian.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Diner
M
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2458
Myths, Rituals and the Sacred: Mircea Eliade and the History of Religions
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
This seminar is an intensive introduction to the writings of Mircea Eliade and his influence on the “Chicago School” of the History of Religions. We will read selections from his scholarly works, literary writings and journals (Myth of Eternal Return, The Quest, Shamanism, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, Patterns in Comparative Religions, History of Religious Ideas, The Old Man and the Bureaucrats, Two Tales of the Occult, In the Shadow of a Lily) in order to gain a broad and deep understanding of his revisioning and deprovincializing the study of religion. The course also studies the work of three other scholars who took Eliade’s contributions in new and sometimes critical directions. These include Charles H. Long (Significations), Jonathan Z. Smith (Imagining Religion), and Wendy Doniger (Other People’s Myths, The Implied Spider).
Professor
Class Day & Time
Carrasco
W
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This is a limited enrollment seminar which requires instructor permission to join. To express your interest, please contact the instructor Professor Davíd Carrasco (dcarrasco@hds.harvard.edu) with a short description of your background and academic interests.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2634
Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on African Christianities
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
SP26
This course serves as an introduction to African Christianity, designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. Through anthropological and sociological lenses, the course explores the diversity and local transformation of Christianity in Africa, from its missionary origins to its contemporary expressions. Students will examine the role of actors and the social, political, and religious processes that shape African Christianity. Key topics include Christian pluralism within Africa's broader religious pluralism, the historical encounter between colonial evangelism and African cultures, and the postcolonial discourse of inculturation. Other topics include African Pentecostalism, Christianity’s relationship with gender, witchcraft, healing, politics, civil society, and the growing influence of African Christianity in the diaspora. Using relevant literature from the past five decades, this course emphasizes how African Christianity interacts with local traditions and global movements, offering a comprehensive overview of the field.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Lado
T
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2759
Readings in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Theory
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
SP26
An advanced reading course in modern theory. Although primarily intended for doctoral students in the study of religion or related fields, master's students with a background in theory are welcome to contact the professor about admission to the course. Content will vary each year. Topic for Spring 2025-2026: Power.This is a limited enrollment course. Interested students should attend the first course meeting. If the course is over enrolled, a selection procedure will be described at that first meeting. Selected students will then be invited to enroll in the course by the end of the first week of classes. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 2555.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hollywood
M
03:45pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This is a limited enrollment course. Interested students should attend the first course meeting. If the course is over enrolled, a selection procedure will be described at that first meeting. Selected students will then be invited to enroll in the course by the end of the first week of classes. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 2555.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2907
Introduction to Public Preaching
BTI Category
Semester
Preaching, Liturgy, & Ritual
SP26
Carrying forth the preaching pedagogy of Rev. Peter Gomes, this course focuses on the practice of textual preaching from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. The course is taught by Rev. Daniel Smith (Senior Minister, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC). It emphasizes exegesis, worship context, sermon content and delivery. Participants will be expected to prepare and deliver three essays and three sermons. The course is limited to 8 students. Petitions will not be reviewed until the first day of classes. All interested students should attend the first day of class at Memorial Church on Thursday, January 30, 2025. If more than 8 students show for the first class and wish to take the course, a list of admitted students will be posted later that day.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Smith
R
12:00pm-02:30pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
The course is limited to 8 students. Petitions will not be reviewed until the first day of classes. All interested students should attend the first day of class at Memorial Church on Thursday, January 30, 2025. If more than 8 students show for the first class and wish to take the course, a list of admitted students will be posted later that day
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2930
Spiritual Care in Psychedelic Settings
BTI Category
Semester
Practical/Pastoral Theology
SP26
With the resurgence of psychedelics in research and clinical settings, the field of psychedelic chaplaincy has burgeoned. The spiritual, existential, religious, and theological experiences that psychedelics engender positions chaplains to compassionately and skillfully provide care to those receiving treatment in these settings. This course focuses on the theory and practice of spiritual care for people receiving psychedelic treatment with particular attention paid to spiritual care competencies, assessments, and interventions; the history and contemporary state of therapeutic psychedelics; and the development of one’s identity as a spiritual care provider. Students will gain the ability to articulate the role of a chaplain in the preparation, guidance, integration, and community support for patients undergoing psychedelic treatments; facilitate spiritual health and growth; and attend to the unique epistemic, spiritual, and even ontological aspects of non-ordinary, mystical, and transcendent states of consciousness.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Deonauth
R
9:00am-11:00am
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This is a limited enrollment course and requires instructor permission. Prospective students may email the instructor prior to the first class meeting to express their interest and should attend the first course meeting. In the event that the course is overenrolled, prospective students will be asked to write a short paragraph during the first class meeting expressing their interest and aspirations for the class. Selected students will then be invited to enroll in the course by the end of the first week of classes. Course to be taught by Tara Deonauth, MDiv, BCC (tara.deonauth@gmail.com)
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2948
Pastoral Care for Congregations
BTI Category
Semester
Practical/Pastoral Theology
SP26
This course is meant for students intending to pursue congregational ministry and will help students prepare for and reflect upon the pastoral tasks, demands, and opportunities of congregational leadership and life. We will read narrative accounts of ministry as well as engage in case studies and conversation about pastoral care and community life. Students will prepare reflection papers and present cases of their own. Prior or present pastoral service in a religious community (e.g. field education in a congregation or similar, whether formal or informal), is required to take the course, as is the permission of the instructor.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Potts
W
01:00pm-02:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Those interested in applying for this course should email the instructor by November 12, describing their interest in the course and their previous congregational experience in no more than 300 words. Applicants will be informed of their permission to enroll no later than November 15 - BTI STUDENTS EMAIL PROFESSOR
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2975
United Church of Christ Polity
BTI Category
Semester
Church Polity/Canon Law
SP26
The history, polity, theology and practice of the United Church of Christ. Issues addressed throughout include covenantal polity, how five historic streams combined to form the UCC, theological framings, wider church mission and justice, professional practices, and the ordination process. This course seeks to enhance authorized or lay ministry at the local church level by strengthening understanding of the covenantal connections among all settings of the UCC. MDiv students seeking ordination in the UCC are urged to take this course but all are welcome. Auditors by permission of instructor only.Permission to enroll in the course will be granted as petitions are received. If enrollment exceeds the allowed limit, priority will be given to those needing the course for UCC ordination, followed by date of petition submission.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Girash
M
10:00am-12:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Permission to enroll in the course will be granted as petitions are received. If enrollment exceeds the allowed limit, priority will be given to those needing the course for UCC ordination, followed by date of petition submission.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3070
Krishna and Christ: Does It Matter?
BTI Category
Semester
Hinduism Studies
SP26
Krishna, a supreme deity of Hindu tradition, and Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christian faith, have been compared and contrasted for well over two centuries. They been understood as similar divine persons, who descend into this world and are embodied here, gather followers, offer wise instructions, save their devotees, and are best approached by love and devotion. But differences have often been emphasized. For centuries, missionaries, scholars, and many ordinary believers have seen Krishna and Christ as competitors., pushing similarities and differences in contexts (most often in India but not only) where true religion, salvation, and conversion were at stake. Questions arose such as these: Are Krishna and Christ mythical or historical figures? The former mythical and the latter historical? Is either divine? Both? Did they truly come into this world, by incarnation or avatara? If they save, how does that happen -- and save from what? Are they moral role models? Can a Hindu love Christ, and a Christian love Krishna? Such were "hot" questions for a very long time, and even today for some. But for many, such questions have lost their urgency in the 21st century. It is good that competition is largely a thing of the past, but it may not be good that the urgency of the comparison -- Krishna and Christ, Christ or Krishna? -- no longer matters to most people. Do we have something to gain by taking both Krishna and Christ seriously? Facing this question sheds light on many larger questions regarding spirituality, religion, and cross-cultural learning. The course proceeds by key readings, discussed vigorously in class, but experience, practices, and images are important as well. Course requirements include brief weekly written responses to readings, and two 12-page course papers, but no final examination. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 64.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Clooney
MW
10:30am-11:45am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3129
Qualitative and Mixed Methods
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
SP26
This course will serve as an introduction to quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of religion. Using case studies on the study of religion from across the disciplines in the social sciences, the course will provide the students an introduction to a select array of methods which may include basic descriptive statistics, elementary survey design, material culture, case studies, ethnography (digital and otherwise), and more quantitatively experimental field methods. The students will work on group driven hands-on projects throughout the semester. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 2024.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Bagaria
M
09:00am-11:00am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3170
New Buddhist Groups: Evolution, Revivals, and Reforms in the Contemporary Buddhist World
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
The course will focus on new Buddhist groups emerging in the contemporary Buddhist world. The evolution, revivals, and reforms in the Buddhist world have occurred in response to socio-political and economic changes. Changes in communication technologies such as print media, television, radio, and the internet have altered the structure of Buddhism as well as its following. For example, instead of followers going to the temple, the temple has entered the individual’s life through cyberspace. One can even imagine attaining nibbāna while lying in bed and scrolling through social media. While all these changes are occurring, have these new groups changed in their approach to gender? Have women become more present in these male-dominated truth-seeking spaces? At the same time, scholars from various social sciences and humanities backgrounds are trying to understand these new transformations through their scientific categorizations and labels. The course will be exploring these aspects in effort of understanding new Buddhist groups emerging in the Buddhist world across the globe. Aims and Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, students will be able to understand how social, political, and economic changes influence religion, as well as how religion, in turn, shapes society. Within this discussion, we will explore how market forces, the relative weakening of the state, modern education systems, political changes, and the spread of media and technology have affected dharma and the structure of new Buddhist groups. Students will also gain an understanding of the new Buddhist movements emerging in Buddhist countries and how these groups are intertwined with the socio-political and economic conditions of those contexts.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Kahandagama
TBD
TBD
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3179
Hinduism: An Anthropological Introduction
BTI Category
Semester
Hinduism Studies
SP26
This course will provide an anthropological study to the study of contemporary Hinduism. In doing so, we will consider the alleged distance between issues defining the study of contemporary Hinduism and the concerns and debates that animated the past scholars of classical Hinduism - populism rather than persuasion, social identitarianism rather than cultural mixing, ritual performance rather than intellectual deliberation, theatrical exhibition rather than reflection, and context rather than text.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Bagaria
T
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3202
The Religious and Ecological Dimensions of Octavia Butler's Parables
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
SP26
Amid the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the rapid progression of climate change, there has been a renewed interest in the works of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Known for her keen insights into ecological degradation, ecofascism, authoritarianism, and urban survival in her 1990s Parable series, Butler has been hailed by scholars and activists as a prophetic voice for our times. Social media platforms have been flooded with hashtags like #OctaviaTriedToTellUs and #OctaviaKnew as people seek to make sense of our global environmental and health crises.If Butler's visionary perspective on today's religious, political, and ecological crises is to be fully appreciated, it is essential to examine it through the lens of Black histories and literary traditions that navigate and shape new worlds. This includes exploring Black religious expressions, particularly African traditional religions, Black Christian traditions, and Black new religious movements—all of which have profoundly influenced both Butler’s personal life and her characters. The course will primarily focus on the Parable series, interviews of Octavia Butler, and secondary articles.This course is limited to 12 students.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hoskins
R
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This course is limited to 12 students.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3221
American Religious Ecofascism
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
The blending of climate action and resource preservation with antisemitism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia—tactics typically linked to the far-right—or advocating for the destruction of the earth to "level the playing field" for all creatures, a strategy often associated with the far left, exemplifies the characteristics of ecofascism. These dangerous ideologies often masquerade as environmental consciousness.While contemporary discussions frame such rhetoric as a reaction to the growing awareness of climate change, it has deeper historical roots, particularly visible in American religious writings. Lest we forget that religion (and race) were central to the ecofascist manifestos espoused by the perpetrators of several tragic events: the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, where a gunman targeted Muslims during Friday prayers at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center; the 2015 mass shooting of Black churchgoers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas that targeted the Latinx community; and the 2022 attack at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. In the manifestos, the shooters identified as ecofascists whose mission was to protect and preserve white Christian nationalism in the wake of climate disaster.The manifestos accompanying these attacks have brought greater visibility to ecofascism today, compelling us to examine its historical roots and current operations. Is there a longer history of American religious ecofascism? How can we characterize this history, and what insights does it provide into the functioning of ecofascism in contemporary society? How have communities resisted ecofascism?
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hoskins
R
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3252
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines: Engaging a Budddhist Text as Scripture
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
A critical introduction to the Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines (Aṣṭasāhaskrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra), considered in the light of the historical contexts of its formation, its connection to earlier Buddhist texts, and the contexts of its subsequent reception across Buddhist Asia, including commentarial, intellectual, and ritual contexts. The course will also introduce key interpretive challenges and issues in the study of Buddhist “scripturable texts.”
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hallisey
R
09:00am-10:59am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3300
Religious Literacy and the Professions
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
Religions have functioned throughout human history to inspire and justify the full range of human agency from the heinous to the heroic. Their influences remain potent here in the 21st century in spite of modern predictions that religious influences would steadily decline in concert with the rise of secular democracies and advances in science. Professionals in a wide range of fields need to understand these complex religious influences in order to understand modern human affairs across the full spectrum of endeavors in local, national, and global arenas. In this course, we will focus on religious literacy in professions such as journalism, arts and popular culture, government, humanitarian action, education, and organizing. How can a nuanced and complex understanding of religion enhance the ability of professionals in these fields to serve their populations? Students will explore multiple methods for comprehending the ways that religions shape, and are shaped by, different social, cultural, and political contexts and will apply that method to case studies in diverse professional sectors. This course is open to all but required for those pursuing a Certificate in Religion and Public Life. Course must be taken for a letter grade if pursuing the certificate.
Professor
Class Day & Time
McKanan
MW
09:00am-10:15am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3467
Women and Gender in Buddhism
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
This course spotlights the history of women in Buddhism, both their obstacles and their brilliances. It explores a diverse range of gender conceptions that impacted that history, as well as how issues of fairness, access, safety, and freedom were understood in Buddhist contexts. We range from ancient and medieval histories of women’s renunciation and leadership to early modern textual traditions displaying repressive, subversive, and liberative moments of women’s lives. We also study key contemporary cases involving women’s ordination; women’s leadership; sexual violence; and queer Buddhisms. While gender is an important analytic category throughout the course, we are just as much interested in centering women as a category of people whose histories and experiences require telling. Another major aim of this course is to critically examine if feminism is a tool of justice in diverse global contexts, as well as the place of scholarly activism in Buddhist Studies.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Gyatso
TR
01:30pm-02:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3649
Chosen Silence in Medieval Islamic Mystical Literature
BTI Category
Semester
Islamic Studies
SP26
Amid the vast corpus of biographical writings, poetry, and historical accounts on Sufis and Muslim mystics, appear tales of masters who, after a lifetime of study, teaching, and spiritual discipline, chose to throw all their books into the sea or to embrace silence for the rest of their lives. There are also reports of (mostly) nameless women, revered as teachers of great male mystics, who suddenly vanished, leaving behind no trace. These haunting narratives gesture toward the dark face of Truth which no language can express, that ultimate dimension of being which forever remains inaccessible to conceptual or linguistic understanding. Such tales often link namelessness, silence, and femininity. In this course, we will read these short yet profound texts closely and trace together their narrative structures, mystical metaphors, theological implications, and the gendered political contexts behind them.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Moballegh
R
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3682
Modern Jewish Thought
BTI Category
Semester
Judaic Studies
SP26
This course will look at a series of issues that were formative for the Jewish integration and participation in modernity/postmodernity. Special attention will be given to social, political, artistic, and intellectual trends from the Enlightenment to the present. These issues will include rationalism, romanticism, nationalism/Zionism, democracy, gender, war/violence, ritual/law/reform, ecumenism, antisemitism, and environmentalism. We will read from a wide variety of Jewish philosophers, rabbis, political leaders, artists, theologians, and ritualists investigating the context of their work, its engagement with the world and issues of the day and vision for the future of Judaism that emerged from their works.Jointly offered with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as JEWISHST 111.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Magid
T
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3888
Buddhist Studies Seminar: Early Tantra and Vinaya Text
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
This is a seminar for advanced Buddhist Studies doctoral and masters students, including doctoral students taking generals exams in Buddhist Studies. A minimum of two years study of at least one canonical Buddhist language is required for enrollment. The seminar takes a close look at selected canonical texts in their Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and/or Tibetan versions, and the evolution of some of their contents, organization, and conceptual structure, not to mention editions and translations. The purpose of the seminar is to familiarize students with research methods in working with Buddhist canonical texts, from online resources and critical apparati to strategies of readings and pursuing themes of interest. This year the seminar will focus for half of the semester on ritual and physical structures of early kriyā and caryā tantras as available in Sanskrit or other Indic languages, Chinese, and/or Tibetan. The other half of the semester will compare versions of the Vinaya in Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, and/or Tibetan, through the lens of particular foci of interest to students in the seminar; possibilities include gender issues, monastic structure, material culture, ritual structure, community versus personal values. The particular foci for both parts of the course will be decided by all members when the seminar convees. The seminar will also consider relevant modern academic Buddhological research relevant to our topics. Requirements: One research paper at the end of the semester, and full participation in ongoing source discovery, in-class readings, and discussion.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Gyatso
W
03:00pm-05:30pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4053
Elementary Pali II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
This course is a continuation of Elementary Pali I. The goal of this course will be to complete the study of the major elements of grammar found in Pali and to strengthen the student's familiarity with the language patterns found in standard prose works. The student will begin to gain experience in a wider range of literary styles. Prerequisites: Elementary Pali I or equivalent (with the permission of the instructor). Note: Auditors not allowed. Additional section hour to be arranged.
Professor
Class Day & Time
TBD
MWF
09:00am-09:59am
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Note: Auditors not allowed. Additional section hour to be arranged.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4057
Reading Post-Canonical Pali II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
This course is a continuation of HDS course offerings in Pali (Elementary Pali and Intermediate Pali) and focuses especially on the reading and interpretation of Theravada Buddhist commentarial texts composed in Pali. Course will include learning how to read Pali texts printed in non-Roman scripts; in the spring term, 2022, some texts will be read in Thai script. Prerequisite: Intermediate Pali II or equivalent (with instructor's permission).
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hallisey
MW
09:00am-10:15am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: Intermediate Pali II or equivalent (with instructor's permission).
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4212
Elementary Greek II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
Continuation of 4211. Focus on the reading of portions of the New Testament, along with continued work in classical Greek grammar and syntax. Course has additional section hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: Successful completion of HDS 4211 or equivalent.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Skedros
MWF
09:00am-09:59am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Course has additional section hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: Successful completion of HDS 4211 or equivalent.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4413
Intermediate German Readings
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
Second semester course to cover German grammar, syntax, and translation; reading and translation practice of selected texts at the intermediate level related to theological and religious studies. Prerequisite: One semester of German at the college-level or German AX (offered by FAS).
Professor
Class Day & Time
Grundler-Whitacre
W
09:00am-10:59am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: One semester of German at the college-level or German AX (offered by FAS).
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4463
Intermediate Spanish Readings
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
This course focuses on Spanish reading comprehension and translation at the intermediate level, with special attention to theological and religious texts from across time periods, traditions, and genres. Students will also review key grammatical structures with the goal of improving students’ comprehension of written material in Spanish. In addition to the course readings, students will have the opportunity to work with and translate a text of their choice from their own research discipline. Prerequisite: successful completion of elementary level Spanish courses, or the equivalent language knowledge.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Eldrett
MW
06:15pm-07:14pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: successful completion of elementary level Spanish courses, or the equivalent language knowledge.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1309
Topics in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exegesis at Qumran
BTI Category
Semester
Scripture & Biblical Studies
SP26
This course explores the diverse functions of scripture within the literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls, focusing in particular on the forms and methods of interpretation attested, and considered in light of other varieties of interpretation in early Judaism. Sessions will be devoted to reading, translation and discussion of primary sources in Hebrew, as well as to discussion of relevant secondary literature. The course presumes facility in Biblical Hebrew, as well as the ability to read unpointed Hebrew texts.Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Jewish Studies 149.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Teeter
T
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
The course presumes facility in Biblical Hebrew, as well as the ability to read unpointed Hebrew texts
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1611
The Gnostic Mind: Jung and the Study of Religion
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
Carl Jung (1875 -- 1961), once the most influential psychologist in the History of Religions, is today almost wholly rejected by the discipline. This course will examine the impact of Jung on the study of religion, the reasons behind this disciplinary amnesia, and imagine what a post-Jungian approach to the psychology of religion could look like in the 21st century.The course will center primary readings from Jung (in English translation). These readings will encompass his academic writings as well as The Red Book, Jung's own stylized diary of his visionary journeys in "the land of the dead" from 1913-1916. We will explore topics in the history of religions germane to Jung's work: madness and mystical experience, the paranormal and UFOs, symbols, the imagination, and the relationship between a scholar and their historical subject. Critical assessments of Jung from feminist philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience, and comparative religions will be featured.Altogether, we will interrogate what counts as knowledge within the history of religions and what might have been lost in the forgetting of Carl Jung.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Dillon
W
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Interested students should contact Matthew Dillon (mdillon@hds.harvard.edu) for a petition.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1700
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
This course will take up the topic of how difference was addressed in ancient Christianity. In particular, the polemical strategies of the discourse of orthodoxy and heresy will be analyzed. We will explore diverse forms and practices of the earliest Jesus/Christ-followers and Christians by examining a wide range of literature, variously classified as mainstream, heretical, apocryphal, apostolic, and patristic. We will critique these categories and ask: What is the evidence evidence of? What work do claims of truth and falsehood do and for whom? Texts will include: The Gospel of Mark, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Philip, Irenaeus Against Heresies, Epiphanius Panarion, and much more. Previous work in New Testament or history of Ancient Christianity preferred.NB: This is a limited enrollment course. To apply, send a statement to kking@hds.harvard.edu (selection process will begin October 22, 2025) with the following information: your name, degree program, year of study, school or university, previous relevant academic background, and a brief statement of your goals for the course.
Professor
Class Day & Time
King
R
12:00pm-02:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
NB: This is a limited enrollment course. To apply, send a statement to kking@hds.harvard.edu (selection process will begin October 22, 2025) with the following information: your name, degree program, year of study, school or university, previous relevant academic background, and a brief statement of your goals for the course.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1762
All From One: The Neoplatonism of Proclus
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
SP26
This course will introduce students to the philosophy of Proclus (412-485), who, after Plotinus, is the most important Neoplatonist philosopher of late antiquity. Proclus was wildly prolific, and his writings offer a systematic synthesis of philosophy and religion. He exerted enormous influence on Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought in the medieval period, as well as on modern Western philosophers such as Hegel. All readings will be done in translation, with opportunities for those who have Greek to read the sources in the original language. There are no prerequisites, although some knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy, especially Platonism, is recommended.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Stang
T
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
There are no prerequisites, although some knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy, especially Platonism, is recommended.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2034
Leading Music in Ritual
BTI Category
Semester
Preaching, Liturgy, & Ritual
SP26
This course will explore the leadership of music in the public rituals of religious, liturgical, and social movements, drawing on historical research, current practice in local communities, and students’ own experience to answer questions about the role of music across religious and spiritual traditions as well as in movement-based activism. How does music inspire, connect, celebrate, and console? Where is the boundary between performance and prayer/meditation/worship? How does a song interact with its text to enhance and define the ritual space? Students will learn practical tools in leading song with their voices or musical instruments through the study of hymns, psalm chanting, and other folk and popular music traditions. The course is designed for students interested in ministerial or other ritual leadership who would like to expand their knowledge of musical literature, its current practice, and the history of music in the development and practice of religious traditions.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hossfeld
M
09:00am-10:59am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2184
Power, Violence, and Resistance in World Christianity
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
Across the globe, Christians are on both sides of social and political power: they hold authority, resist oppression, or, at times, perpetrate violence. Christianity is the largest religion in 159 of the world’s 237 countries, where it often benefits from long-standing support and official or unofficial endorsement. In the remaining 78 countries, Christians live as minorities – sometimes peacefully, sometimes under duress. This course examines the complex interplay of Christianity, power, violence, and resistance in various case studies worldwide. We will explore the historical, cultural, religious, and political dimensions of Christian nationalism in Brazil, the Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, climate change in the Pacific Islands, Muslim immigration to Europe, gun violence in the United States, Christianity and LGBTQ+ rights worldwide, Christian women peacebuilders, Christians under military rule in Myanmar, and Evangelicals responding to gang violence in Central America. Through these case studies, we will analyze Christianity’s varied relationships with power, highlighting the vast diversity of Christian expression worldwide as they grapple with authority, violence, and resistance. Students will have the opportunity to write a final research paper.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Zurlo
M
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2220
Teresa of Avila
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
This conference course will explore the life and work of the sixteenth-century Spanish writer, mystic and reformer, Teresa of Avila. With attention to her religious, literary, political and social context, we will read closely her major works on contemplative prayer and Christian life and community: her Life, Way of Perfection, and Interior Castle; her commentary on the Song of Songs; and documents related to her reform movement. The format of the course will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and the sharing of our work.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Paulsell
M
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2390B
Colloquium in American Religious History
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
Presentation and discussion of the research of doctoral candidates in American religious history. Available, with instructors' permission, to Harvard doctoral students in other fields of religious studies or American studies. Note: Second half of an academic year bi-weekly course. Credit will not be earned unless both the fall and spring semester of the course is completed. Course may be taken on a Sat/unsat basis only.Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 3505B.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Holland
T
06:00pm-07:59pm
Grading Option
P/F
Credits
2
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
DOCTORAL
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2446
Makers of the (Catholic) Tradition: Catholicism and Democracy
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
“Makers of the (Catholic) Tradition” is a series devoted to the study of key themes and authors that have shaped Roman Catholic Theological Studies. Each iteration of this course introduces students to different themes and authors through a combination of lectures and class discussion whose goal is gaining in-depth knowledge of the Catholic tradition, while engaging authors and sources beyond Catholicism.In this iteration of the course, we will focus on the complex relationship between Catholicism and democracy. We will start by studying the general theological and historical background that prevented the Catholic Church from supporting democracy before the 20th century. Then we will turn to two key authors who provided some of the most decisive Catholic arguments for democracy, and whose work was central in the church’s embrace of democracy: Jacques Maritain and John Courtney Murray. The rest of the class will be devoted to examining the shortcomings of democracy, turning to approaches and movements that challenge the current state of democracy in the US and the globe. Particular attention will be given to the new Catholic integralism and its Evangelical counterparts, but also to movements of reform pointing in the direction of democratic socialism.This seminar offers students an opportunity to write a research paper. No prerequisites.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Zegarra
R
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2468
Resistance, Radicalism, and Reform: The Christian Left in America
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
Is there a Christian Left in America? This course explores some of the varied justice movements of Christian traditions in the United States from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century. These movements complicate the association of religion with conservative politics by looking at a longer trajectory of American Christianity. In roughly chronological order, the course focuses on Christians’ attempts to address some of the country’s biggest problems: poverty, gender inequity, racism, and imperfect democracy. From Christian traditions including Black Protestantism, mainline Protestantism, evangelicalism, and Catholicism, these individuals and groups have endeavored to put their faith into action. Through primary and secondary texts, we will explore how Christians have brought to bear the resources of their various faith traditions including prayer, liturgy, confession, activism, and theology onto social movements. In their successes and failures, we witness the difficult work of coalescing social and political ideology around the Christian faith.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hanson Woodruff
R
09:00am-11:45am
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2671
Pragmatism and Religion: Peirce, James, and Dewey
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
This course engages three classic figures in the American pragmatic tradition, seeking both to understand the genesis and claims of pragmatism and its relation to and implications for religion in the contemporary era. Ordered chronologically, the course begins with Charles Sanders Peirce, and gives particular attention to the writings of William James and John Dewey. Topics include the nature of belief, human experience, truth, action, ethics, rationality, and the nature and role (socially and individually) of religion. Prior work in theology or philosophy is recommended but not required.Enrollment is limited to 15. Applications for enrollment will be available on the Canvas site, and should be completed at least one week before the first class meeting; petitions should also be registered in my.harvard. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1556.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Lamberth
W
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Enrollment is limited to 15. Applications for enrollment will be available on the Canvas site, and should be completed at least one week before the first class meeting; petitions should also be registered in my.harvard. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1556. BTI students: Email professor and registrar
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2895
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian, Pastor, Citizen of the World
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
SP26
It is something of a commonplace that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a great pastor and a courageous resistor within the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany, but that he wasn't much of a theologian. The first part is true, but the latter perception owes perhaps more to the fact that his more popular work came first to the North American audience long before his early theological works. These latter were often ignored or written off as more ecclesiology than theology. In this course we will begin with a close reading of his early work. We will move, more or less chronologically, to and through his later works and note how his later writings build on the earlier. Additionally, the reception history of Bonhoeffer's works, particularly as the ways that in the United States he is often read through the lens of "Free Church" traditions rather than his own Lutheran one, seems to have misled some of his American biographers and interpreters. In the latter part of the course, we will critically consider some of the North American interpretations of Bonhoeffer's theology and life. Unavoidably, we will want to critically assess how, if at all, Bonhoeffer can speak to our present moment.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Rose
W
01:00pm-02:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2922
Preaching and Worship in the Black Church Tradition
BTI Category
Semester
Preaching, Liturgy, & Ritual
SP26
This course engages students in historical, theological, and practical study of preaching and worship in the Black Church tradition. Readings in black homiletics and practical theologies of worship introduce students to a variety of approaches for the development and delivery of sermons and for the construction and ministerial leadership of worship within black Christian church contexts. The course considers these proposals for ministry practice against the backdrop of the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics that shape the contemporary context of black communal life in the United States. The purpose of the course is to increase students' ministerial capacity through the incorporation of theological and practical wisdom from the Black Church tradition into their own understandings and uses of ritual and rhetoric.This is a limited enrollment course. To apply, send a statement to thickmanmaynard@hds.harvard.edu with the following information: your name, degree program, year of study, school or university, previous relevant academic background, and a brief statement of your goals for the course.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hickman-Maynard
T
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This is a limited enrollment course. To apply, send a statement to thickmanmaynard@hds.harvard.edu with the following information: your name, degree program, year of study, school or university, previous relevant academic background, and a brief statement of your goals for the course.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2935
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
Traditional Buddhist monastics and teachers have long played a key role in helping others prepare for death. This course will explore the central approaches to death and dying in Buddhism, the Buddhist view of compassion, and how these are being adapted in the US for professional end-of-life care. Students will develop an understanding of basic skills in compassionate care of the dying, and tools to approach death as an opportunity for spiritual growth through readings, meditation exercises, listening practices, group work, and discussions with guest speakers. Some prior knowledge of Buddhism preferred. Prerequisite: Spiritual Care, Chaplaincy, or CPE required.This class has a limited enrollment to facilitate a personal group dynamic of safety and support around issues of death and dying, collective processing, and contemplative cultivation. Priority will be given to students who have completed one or more prerequisite courses with the instructors, have a basic knowledge of Buddhism and Buddhist practice, are third-year M.Div. students about to graduate, or will be in CPE or a field education placement working with end-of-life care. During the first class, Thursday, January 27, instructors will ask prospective students to write a one-paragraph summary of their readiness, aspirations for the class, and above criteria to determine the class cohort. Decisions will be made by both instructors on the same day of the first class and they will email students that evening to let them know if they are in the class.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Berlin
R
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
This class has a limited enrollment to facilitate a personal group dynamic of safety and support around issues of death and dying, collective processing, and contemplative cultivation. Priority will be given to students who have completed one or more prerequisite courses with the instructors, have a basic knowledge of Buddhism and Buddhist practice, are third-year M.Div. students about to graduate, or will be in CPE or a field education placement working with end-of-life care. During the first class, Thursday, January 27, instructors will ask prospective students to write a one-paragraph summary of their readiness, aspirations for the class, and above criteria to determine the class cohort. Decisions will be made by both instructors on the same day of the first class and they will email students that evening to let them know if they are in the class
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 2962
The Lutheran Church (ELCA): Its Marks and Practices
BTI Category
Semester
Church Polity/Canon Law
SP26
This seminar focuses on Martin Luther's theological reappraisal of the Church, exploring central teachings of the Lutheran movement and its contemporary practices in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Opportunity will be given to focus a semester project on an aspect of the church's practices related to the student's interests and vocational preparation.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Lutjohann
TBD
TBD
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3063
Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective
BTI Category
Semester
Islamic Studies
SP26
This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in North America with a special focus on contemporary issues. We will study meditative/ritualistic, medical, philosophical, counseling, and psychological practices that have relevance and meanings in personal journeys of Muslim spiritual experience in different settings such as hospital, prison, university, community, social, and professional settings. Through a combination of readings, class discussions, practical exercises and expert guest lecturers in each class, students will begin to develop their own approaches to spiritual care in different circumstances such as the issues involving spiritual crises, trauma, mental illness, marriage/divorce, refuge related mental and spiritual complications, substance abuse, and others. Different stake holders such as pastoral care/chaplaincy (minister) candidates, students in education, social work, counseling, psychology, and health sciences as well as medical school students will find much value and benefit in this course. Class format will include weekly expert guest speakers including medical doctors, counselors, social workers, psychologists, clergy, and chaplains, from different disciplines who provide service to Muslim clients, patients, students, or inmates followed by a class discussion.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Kumek
M
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3106
Social Justice: Perspectives from Political Philosophy and Theology
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
In this class we will examine the concept of social justice and its deployment in political philosophy and theology, together with concrete examples of justice-oriented movements. We will open a class with a close reading of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, two of the most influential texts providing an account of social justice in the 20th century. We will then turn to alternative accounts of justice—which often directly challenge Rawls’s—paying special attention to those that incorporate theological and religious sources. Readings include the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Walzer, Martha Nussbaum, Jeffrey Stout, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Jean Porter, among others.This seminar offers students an opportunity to write a research paper. No prerequisites.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Zegarra
T
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3134
Theories and Methods in the Study of Black Religions
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
SP26
This graduate seminar course will expose students to foundational theoretical and methodological debates in the academic study of Black religions across the African diaspora in the afterlives of slavery and colonization. We will read canonical works and study the interventions and contributions of pivotal thinkers in the field (Du Bois, Hurston, Herskovits, Frazier, Cone, Long, Williams, etc.) while also examining their legacies and continued influence upon both Religious Studies and Black Studies, respectively. In addition to familiarizing students with a variety of approaches to studying the varied manifestations and articulations of Black religions (as phenomena, traditions, cultural practices, and aesthetics), the course examines the construction of the category of "Black religions," ethical and political issues involved in the study of Black religions, and discourses and topics (slavery, African retentions, gender, sexuality, colonialism, etc.) profoundly affecting our changing understanding of Black religions in the contemporary period and reshaping our understandings of the field's intellectual history.Note: Course is by application to the instructor. Please provide a short paragraph answering the following: What is your year and course of study? Why do you want to take this course? What are your research experiences with regard to the study of Black religions?
Professor
Class Day & Time
Greene-Hayes
T
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Note: Course is by application to the instructor. Please provide a short paragraph answering the following: What is your year and course of study? Why do you want to take this course? What are your research experiences with regard to the study of Black religions?
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3178
Introduction to Iranian Religions and Persian Philosophy
BTI Category
Semester
Church History/History of Religions
SP26
Throughout historical and contemporary periods, Persia (Iran) has occupied a central role in global religious thought and spirituality. The ancient Persian religions, including Zoroastrianism (Mazdayasna) and Manicheanism, had highly developed theological and philosophical worldviews with monotheistic and dualistic theologies. These included cosmologies of Light and Darkness, Good versus Evil, End-Times messianism, and resurrection that have greatly impacted world religious and philosophical traditions, including Greek philosophical schools, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, among others. In the post-Islamic period, Persia retained a distinctive place in the development of various Islamic philosophies, including among scholars, sages, poets, and philosophers such as al-Farabi, Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Sohrevardi, Attar, Rumi, Hafez, and Mulla Sadra. This has included highly mystical (Sufi/Irfani) understandings of religion that have shaped Islamic thought and culture to the present time, especially in Iran as the main center of Shi'a Islam, heavily impacting the development of Shi'a Islamic thought, philosophy, and identity. This course provides an introductory survey of several Iranian religions and philosophical-mystical traditions from the pre- to post-Islamic periods, ending with Muslim scholars of the 20th century and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. It also examines the Western reception of Persian thought and religion, especially in American religion and contemporary popular culture, exploring the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harold Bloom, and other media.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Mohseni
W
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3195
Womanist Theology
BTI Category
Semester
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
SP26
In 1979 Alice Walker coined the term “womanist”in her short story “Coming Apart.” In 1981, Walker re-introduced the term with a four-part definition in her anthology, “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden: A Womanist Prose.” It was then that Black women religious scholars adopted the term womanist to identify theological and ethical frameworks that emerged from Black women’s experience. This course will explore the roots, the development, sources and major themes of womanist theological and ethical discourse as it emerged in the United States in the 20th century. It will highlight the dialogues between womanist religious scholars. This course will examine the works of pioneering womanist thinkers as well as that of emerging womanist scholars.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Brown Douglas
R
12:00pm-01:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3208
Christianity and Modern China
BTI Category
Semester
Sociology/Ethnography/Research Methods
SP26
This course is a search for historical understanding of how the rise of Christianity helped shape modern China and how, at the same time, the country’s modern upheavals left their imprint on Chinese Christianity. It explores ways in which the spread of Christianity facilitated momentous social changes—from the introduction of modern education, medicine, and journalism to the rise of women and the pioneering struggles for individual freedom and civil liberties. It also examines how China’s tortuous journey out of its dynastic past and its troubled encounters with modernity fashioned a Christian tradition characterized in turn by popular messianic exuberance and by prophetic political and cultural strivings.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Lian
T
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3222
Gender and Asceticism in South Asia
BTI Category
Semester
Interreligious Learning
SP26
This course examines how asceticism operates as a gendered discourse, challenging binaries of male/female and masculine/feminine, while offering insights into the fluidity of spiritual roles across South Asia. Focusing on themes such as celibacy, virtue, and bodily discipline will elucidate how ascetic practices intersect with issues of gender and power.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Chase
R
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
This course is limited to 15 participants. For permission to enroll, please email a paragraph to Prof. Chase (mochase@wisc.edu) describing your interest in the class and any relevant background.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3267
AI, Ethics, and Society
BTI Category
Semester
Ethics (all traditions)
SP26
The radical upswing in engagement with artificial intelligence over the last several years has outpaced systematic ethical reflection about its impact, benefits, and risks. This research seminar identifies and evaluates conceptual resources for thinking through this cultural shift—ranging from the activities of AI businesses to the human, environmental, religious, and social impacts and possibilities. A distinctive throughline is a diagnostic framework for AI harms and mitigations that surfaces physical and existential threats, infrastructure-level inequities, psychosocial and cultural harms, and the narratives that normalize or conceal them. Seminar participants will work collaboratively in small groups to research particular topics, bringing bibliographies and analysis to the seminar for discussion. Final projects will concretize work on specific issues in AI and ethics (e.g., research paper, policy memo, or evidence-backed design critique) and develop current bibliography for those topics. No programming background required; technical students are welcome. Permission of the instructors required (see Canvas site to apply). Enrollment limited to 20.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Lamberth
T
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
No programming background required; technical students are welcome. Permission of the instructors required (see Canvas site to apply). Enrollment limited to 20. BTI STUDENTS EMAIL PROFESSOR AND REGISTRAR
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3338
The Prophet Muhammad in History, Devotion, and Polemic
BTI Category
Semester
Islamic Studies
SP26
In the early seventh century, a man named Muḥammad son ofʿAbdallah founded a movement that in time grew into a global religion, empire, and civilization. This course explores three discourses that developed around the life and character of the Prophet Muhammad. First, we will survey some of the biographies that Muslim scholars, both ancient and modern, have written about the life of their prophet. Second, we will explore how the Prophet's life, teachings and persona have served as subjects of Islamic devotion. Finally, the course examines some of the ways in which non-Muslims, again both ancient and modern, have perceived and portrayed Muhammad in polemic against Islam or dialogue with Muslims. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1078.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Goudarzi
T
03:00pm-05:00pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3471
Friendship and the Religious Life: Buddhist Insights
BTI Category
Semester
Buddhist Studies
SP26
In the Theravada Buddhist traditions, the Buddha's emphasis on the significance of friendship in a person's spiritual development is often highlighted. For example, when on a certain occasion, Ananda, the Buddha's beloved disciple, speaking to the Buddha about what he had learned from the Buddha's instructions over the years of living with him, said that "half of the good life" is friendship with good people, companionship with good people, closeness with good people, only to be corrected by the Buddha that these are not half but actually the whole of the good life. Elsewhere, the Buddha said that there is no other factor more significant and helpful in the development of the factors of enlightenment than friendship with good people.This course is an exploration of Theravada Buddhist insights and appreciations of friendship and its potentials in religious life, taking up friendship conceptually as well as in its depictions in Theravada Buddhist story literature; systematically, especially in ethics and soteriology; and the place of friendship in various kinds of Buddhist practice, especially in meditation and monasticism.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Hallisey
T
09:00am-10:59am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3656B
Realms of Power: Animals in Religion II
BTI Category
Semester
Interreligious Learning
SP26
This comparative course will focus on the symbolic, ritual, and ideological dimensions of animal lives in religious worlds. Using particular cultural histories as paradigms, we will consider themes such as cosmogony, apocalypse, species hierarchy and reversal, metamorphosis, prophecy, consciousness and subjectivity, mimesis, magic, hunting, sacrifice, commodification, and the role of fantastic creatures. Central to our work will be the question of how animals have been theorized both in the history of religion and in contemporary discourse about animals in religion.Enrollment is limited to 30. Request permission to enroll in my.harvard.edu, with a brief comment about your interest in the course. Continuing students from the fall semester should also request permission to enroll, but will automatically be approved for enrollment.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Patton
R
03:00pm-04:59pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
Enrollment is limited to 30. Request permission to enroll in my.harvard.edu, with a brief comment about your interest in the course. Continuing students from the fall semester should also request permission to enroll, but will automatically be approved for enrollment
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3694
Religion, Culture, and Society in Africa
BTI Category
Semester
Interreligious Learning
SP26
Exploring the meaning of religion and its impact of on African culture and society broadly, this course will highlight both religious traditions and innovations. Instead of treating each of the religions of Africa, the triple heritage in the words of Ali Mazrui of indigenous African religions, Islam, and Christianity, as distinct and bounded entities, we will explore the hybridity, interaction, and integration between categories throughout Africa. Using case studies, a unique perspective on religious diversity on the African continent and diaspora will emerge. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as AFRAMER 186.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Olupona
R
03:00pm-05:45pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 3919
Introduction to the Upanisads
BTI Category
Semester
Hinduism Studies
SP26
This seminar introduces the ancient Indian Upanisads, some of the oldest and most famous primary texts of Vedic and Hindu India, ranging from before 700 BCE to 200 BCE and later. Select later Upanisads too will be considered, and the reception of the Upanisads in the Vedanta traditions, both nondualist and theistic nondualist. Topics include: the nature of self and of absolute reality; knowledge as transformative; the limits of language; the role of God in a nondualist worldview; meditation practice; death and rebirth; knowledge and ethics. Texts will be read in translation. No language or course prerequisites, but students will be encouraged to make use of any such expertise. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1061.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Clooney
T
03:00pm-05:30pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4055
Intermediate Pali II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
This course is the final part of a two-year program designed to allow the student to read Buddhist canonical materials in Pali independently. The readings are taken from the canonical collections and are chosen and arranged thematically, exposing the student to key aspects of the teachings of Theravada Buddhism. The course readings are chosen to enrich the student's understanding of these teachings, at the same time as strengthening language skills. The course will also introduce the student to commentarial material. The Theravada tradition has a rich body of material that explicates and comments on the canonical texts. Gaining familiarity with this style of writing will greatly benefit the student in subsequent reading of Pali material. Prerequisites: Intermediate Pali I or equivalent (with the permission of the instructor). Note: Auditors not allowed.
Professor
Class Day & Time
TBD
MWF
10:30am-11:29am
Grading Option
Letter
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisites: Intermediate Pali I or equivalent (with the permission of the instructor). Note: Auditors not allowed.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4158
Elementary Coptic II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
A continuation of introduction to the native language of ancient Egyptian Christianity. Basic Sahidic Coptic grammar and syntax with selected readings from the Coptic Bible and other early texts. Prerequisite: HDS 4157 or equivalent
Professor
Class Day & Time
TBD
TBD
TBD
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: HDS 4157 or equivalent
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4221
Intermediate Greek II
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
Selected readings of early Christian and Hellenistic Jewish authors, selected from the Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, hagiographic, apocryphal, gnostic materials, Irenaeus, Clement, Origen, Philo or Josephus. Texts will be chosen to consolidate Greek skills and, where possible, to reflect the interests of the class; each will be set in its historical and linguistic context as an essential part of translation and interpretation. Designed both for those who wish to gain reading skills with a variety of authors and for those who plan further study of Greek, e.g., in Advanced Greek (4230). Prerequisite: Intermediate Greek I (4220) or equivalent.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Haley
MW
06:00pm-07:15pm
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: Intermediate Greek I (4220) or equivalent.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 4453
Intermediate French Readings
BTI Category
Semester
Languages
SP26
This course is designed to help students gain proficiency in reading and translating texts related to theological French and religious studies, as well as academic French more broadly, at the intermediate level. Grammar and vocabulary are reviewed as needed. The syllabus may be adjusted according to the specific interests of the students enrolled in the course. Prerequisite: HDS 4451 Elementary French for Reading, one semester of French at the college level, or equivalent elementary language knowledge.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Torracinta
W
09:00am-11:29am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes
Prerequisite: HDS 4451 Elementary French for Reading, one semester of French at the college level, or equivalent elementary language knowledge.
School
Harvard Divinity School
HDS 1103
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings
BTI Category
Semester
Scripture & Biblical Studies
SP26
A critical introduction to the literature and theology of the Hebrew Bible, considered in light of the historical contexts of its formation and the interpretive contexts of its reception within Judaism and Christianity. The course, the second part of a divisible, year-long sequence, will focus on the Latter Prophets and the Writings. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as ANE 120b.
Professor
Class Day & Time
Teeter
TR
10:30am-11:45am
Grading Option
Letter, P/F, Audit
Credits
4
Online?
N
Professor Approval Req'd?
N
Prerequisites?
N
Notes
N
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