Religion Concentrations

A. Religion and Society

• REL-102, Ethics, Society and the Moral Self
• REL-205, Religion and Nature
• REL-206, Religion in American Politics and Law
• REL-217, Sects and Cults
• REL-240, Christians & Jews
• REL-240, Varieties of Environmentalism
• REL-240, Non-Violence in the Modern World
• REL-317, Religion and Society
• FYS-102, The Sacred and the Secular: Religion and Society
• FYS-102, Diversity in US Religions
• FYS-102, Religion & Popular Music in America

B. Alternative Hermeneutics

• REL-101, Introduction to Theology
• REL-207, Religion and Art
• REL-210, Nature of Religion
• REL-212, Introduction to the New Testament
• REL-227, Women’s Spiritual Activism
• REL-228, Rebellion, Resistance and Black Religion
• REL-229, Women and Western Religion
• REL-230, Goddesses and Gender in South Asian Religions
• REL-300, Seminar: Reading Genesis
• REL-308, Advanced Biblical Studies:  Family Values/Christian Origins
• REL-308, Advanced Biblical Studies:  Letters to the Colossians
• REL-319, The Human Condition
• REL-340, Women and Social Ethics in the Global Context
• REL-340, Empire: Is America the New Rome?

C. Religious Traditions

• REL-103, World Religions
• REL-202, Judaism
• REL-203, Asian Religions in the US
• REL-213, Christian Right in American Culture
• REL-216, Religions of China and Japan
• REL-218, Islam
• REL-233, Buddhism
• REL-240, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Environmental Rights
• REL-240, Religions of China
• REL-240, Sex and Violence in Ancient India: The Mahabharata
• REL-300, Seminar: Mormons in America
• REL-340, Buddhism and Social Change

D. Individually Designed Concentration

• (to be proposed by a student and approved by the department)