A study of the varied theological and artistic conceptions of Jesus Christ in the principal periods of Christian thought: the Biblical, Patristic,...
The spread of Islam, Islam as a minority community, the role of women in Islam and fundamentalism. Two lectures, one tutorial; one term ...
Exploration of key modern Western texts concerning the nature of leadership and authority in both religious and secular contexts. Readings by Hobbes,...
An introduction to philosophical works in 20th-century European philosophy that raise questions concerning how to think God or transcendence.
An examination of understandings of reason and evil in ancient Greek, medieval Christian and modern times, and of how these understandings are related...
A study of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. The course will explore selected questions in political history, the development of sects and parties,...
A study of Japanese religions and how they function in Japanese society. Topics will include Shinto, Shamanism, Ancestor Worship, Japanese Buddhism...
A study of the significance of travel in various religious traditions, focusing on shrines, pilgrimages, and the inter-relationships between secular...
A study of the various ways religious phenomena can be studied, e.g. psychologically, sociologically, philosophically, theologically, comparatively,...
A study of gender in several religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Important female religious figures...
An exploration of selected themes in Jewish thought, history, and/or culture. Three hours (lectures and discussion); one term Prerequisite(s):...
An examination of the contacts, conflicts, and competition among Jews, Christians, and their non-Jewish, non-Christian neighbours (Greeks, Romans,...
A study of the different ways in which the Bible has been read, from antiquity to the modern world, both inside and outside the communities for which...
Topics in Christianity (Catholic and Protestant) from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Attention is given to the interaction between secular and...
Readings of Indian religious texts in translation will concentrate on themes such as the nature of human nature; free will and determinism; personal...
What is the nature of human nature and its fulfilment? A study of recent philosophical, scientific and religious anthropology. Two lectures, one...
A study of selected texts from Psalms, Job, and Proverbs with attention to how poetic and wisdom literature in the Hebrew Scriptures has functioned in...
An examination of the Gospel of John, with emphasis on its historical background, its literary character and its distinctive theology. The history of...
An examination of the variety of ways in which physical death and the afterlife were understood in biblical and post-biblical Judaism as well as in...