Spring 2021 Religion Courses

Miranda Schonbrun

BCSR faculty and affiliates are offering a wide variety of courses related to religion in spring 2021, spanning diverse fields including Anthropology, Buddhist Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Ethnic Studies, History, History of Art, Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and Political Science!

  • Islam | NESTUD 146 001 | Asad Ahmed
  • Islamic Texts Seminar | NESTUD 298 001 | Asad Ahmed
  • Topics in Judaism: Lit & History in Hebrew Bible | JEWISH 122A 001 | Robert B Alter, Ronald S Hendel
  • Art and Society in Late Antiquity | HISTART 151 001 | Diliana Angelova
  • Well-Behaved Women Making History: Accessing Women’s Lives From the Ancient Sources | HISTORY 103A 001 | Diliana Angelova
  • The Second Generation Asian American Experience | ASAMST 152 001 | Carolyn E Chen
  • Confucius and His Interpreters | CHINESE 186 001 | Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi
  • Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts | BUDDSTD C224 001, SASIAN C224 001, TIBETAN C224 001 | Jacob Dalton
  • Advanced Studies: Sources/General Literature of the Several Fields: Europe, Major Themes in Modern Jewish History | HISTORY 280B 001 | John M. Efron
  • Research Seminars: Europe, Major Themes in Modern Jewish History | HISTORY 285B 001 | John M. Efron
  • Modern Jewish Scholarship: History and Practice, Major Themes in Modern Jewish History | JEWISH 290 001 | John M. Efron
  • Freshman and Sophomore Seminar, Queering the Talmud | JEWISH 39 002 | John M. Efron
  • Freshman and Sophomore Seminar, Holy Fanfiction: Retelling Stories from the Bible and Quran | JEWISH 39 001 | John M. Efron, Madeline Kathryn Wyse
  • War in the Middle East | POLSCI 124B 001 | Ron E Hassner
  • Religion and International Relations | POLSCI 222 001 | Ron E Hassner
  • The Bible in Western Culture | LS 120C 001 | Ronald S Hendel
  • Literature and History in the Hebrew Bible | NESTUD 135 001 | Ronald S Hendel
  • Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics, Emotion and Embodiment | ANTHRO 250X 003 | Charles Hirschkind
  • Modern France | HISTORY 166C 001 | Ethan Benjamin Katz
  • Undergraduate Seminar: On Unicorns, Lions, Dragons, and Rabbits: Noah’s Ark from the Medieval Bestiarium to the Baroque Menagerie | HISTART 192D 001 | Henrike Christiane Lange
  • Dante (in English), The Elements of Hell, Purgatory, Paradise (Earth, Air, Water, Fire) | ITALIAN 30 001 | Henrike Christiane Lange
  • Special Study, Beauty | COMLIT 298 001 | Victoria Kahn, Niklaus E Largier
  • Middle Egyptian Texts, Funerary Texts of Ancient Egypt | EGYPT 201A 001 | Rita Lucarelli
  • Religion of Ancient Egypt, Gods, Priests, Temples and Tombs in Ancient Egypt | NESTUD 103 001 | Rita Lucarelli
  • The Classic Myths | CLASSIC 28 001 | Duncan Macrae
  • Psychological Anthropology | ANTHRO 149 001 | Stefania Pandolfo
  • Buddhist Thought in India | BUDDSTD C113 001, SASIAN C113 001 | Alexander Von Rospatt
  • Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts | BUDDSTD C215 001, SASIAN C215 001 | Alexander Von Rospatt