BCSR faculty and affiliates will offer an array of undergraduate and graduate courses on religion in spring 2020. Covering numerous faiths, regions, periods, and methods, the courses are a testament to the interdisciplinary breadth and historical depth of our offerings. A sample of religion-related courses in the spring are listed below:
- Sufism: The Mysticism of Islam | NESTUD 144 001 | Asad Ahmed
- Breaking Images: Iconoclasms Past and Present | HISTART 192T 003 | Diliana Angelova
- Sociology’s Historical Imagination: Studying Religious Pluralism in Comparative Perspective | SOCIOL 190 002 | Karen Barkey
- Sociology of Religion | SOCIOL 280I 001 | Karen Barkey
- Mongolian Buddhism | BUDDSTD C117 001/MONGOLN C117 001 | Brian Baumann
- Buddhism in Modern China | BUDDSTD C118 001/CHINESE C118 001 | Esther Bianchi
- Advanced Late Antique Hebrew Texts | HEBREW 202B 001 | Daniel Boyarin
- Death, Dreams, and Visions in Tibetan Buddhism | BUDDSTD C154 001/SASIAN C154 001/TIBETAN C154 001 | Jacob Dalton
- History of Christianity to 1250 | HISTORY 185A 001 | Susanna Elm
- Buddhist Thought in India | BUDDSTD C113 001/SASIAN C113 001 | Oren Hanner
- Topics in Buddhism: Moral Philosophy and Action Theory in Indian Buddhism | BUDDSTD 190 001 | Oren Hanner
- Junior Seminar: Religion and Conflict | POLSCI 191 002 | Ron Hassner
- Religion and Anthropology | ANTHRO 158 001 | Charles Hirschkind
- Egyptomania | NESTUD 190A 001 | Rita Lucarelli
- India in the Islamic World Before Modernity | HISTORY 100F 001 | Abhishek Kaicker
- Muslim-Jewish Encounters: From the Beginnings of Islam to Today | HISTORY 175D 001/JEWISH 123A 001 | Ethan Katz
- The Relation of Science and Religion | VISSCI 39 001 | Stanley Klein
- Tibetan Buddhism | BUDDSTD C114 001/SASIAN C114 001/TIBETAN C114 001 | Ian MacCormack
- Contemporary Judaism in Israel: Swaying Religion and Nationality | JEWISH122 001/NESTUD 134 001 | Tomer Persico
- Introduction to the History of Religion | HISTORY 20 001 | Ethan Shagan
- Sacrifice: A History of the Secular Imagination | HISTORY 280B 002 | Jonathan Sheehan
- Buddhism in Contemporary Society | BUDDSTD C128 001/EALANG C128 001 | Alexander Von Rospatt
- Topics in Buddhism: Buddhism and Chinese Literature | BUDDSTD 190 003 | Mengxiao Wang
More information on these and other religious studies courses at Berkeley can be found in the Schedule of Classes.