Courses in Religious Studies

Introductory Courses

• RLST010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
• RLST015 CM - Myth and Religion
• RLST016 PO - Life-Story of the Buddha
• RLST020 PO - The Biblical Heritage
• RLST021 CM - Jewish Civilization
• RLST022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
• RLST037 CM - History of World Christianity
• RLST040 PO - Religious Ethics
• RLST043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought
• RLST055 CM - Jewish Art and Identity
• RLST060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible

Historical Religious Traditions I, Asian

• RLST100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
• RLST101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics I – The Mahabharata
• RLST101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics II – The Ramayana
• RLST102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
• RLST103 PO - Religious Traditions of China
• RLST104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan
• RLST106 PZ - Zen Buddhism
• RLST107 PO - Tradition and Innovation in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism
• RLST108 PO - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia
• RLST109 CM - Readings in the Hindu Tradition
• RLST115 CM - Asian American Religions
• RLST116 PO - The Lotus Sutra in East Asia
• RLST117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine, and Practice
• RLST118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship
• RLST119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia
• RLST159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia
• RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

Historical Religious Traditions II, Western

• RLST057 CM - Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy
• RLST059 CM - Dreams, Visions, and the Afterworld in Islamic Tradition
• RLST061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
• RLST090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
• RLST091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity
• RLST092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity
• RLST093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory
• RLST120 CM - The Life of Jesus
• RLST121 SC - Pauline Tradition
• RLST128 CM - Religion of Islam
• RLST129 CM - Formative Judaism
• RLST133 PO - Modern Judaism
• RLST135 CM - Jerusalem, the Holy City
• RLST136 CM - Religion in Contemporary America
• RLST137 CM - Jewish-Christian Relations
• RLST138 CM - American Religious History
• RLST139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
• RLST156 CM - The Protestant Reformation
• RLST159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia
• RLST165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

Philosophy of Religion, Theology, and Ethics

• RLST042 PO - The Art of Living
• RLST058 CM - The End of the World As We Know It
• RLST080 PO - The Holy Fool: the Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness
• RLST113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
• RLST140 PO - The Idea of God
• RLST141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation
• RLST142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
• RLST143 CM - Philosophy of Religion
• RLST144 CM - Life, Death, and Survival of Death
• RLST148 PO - Sufism
• RLST149 CM - Islamic Thought
• RLST149 PO - Islamic Thought
• RLST154 PO - Life, Love, and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
• RLST155 PO - Religion, Ethics, and Social Practice
• RLST157 PO - Philosophical Response to the Holocaust
• RLST158 PO - Jewish Mysticism

Contemporary and Women’s Studies of Religion

• RLST076 CM - History and Anthropology of Witchcraft
• RLST078 CM - Matriarchal Societies
• RLST084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
• RLST105 HM - Religions in American Culture
• RLST111 CM - Rebels, Radicals and Religions on the Margins
• RLST112 HM - Engaging Religion
• RLST114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse
• RLST152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature
• RLST153 CM - Religion and American Politics (seminar)
• RLST161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
• RLST161A CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India
• RLST161B CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India
• RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy
• RLST163 CM - Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition
• RLST164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition
• RLST166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
• RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power
• RLST170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity
• RLST171 CM - Religion and Film
• RLST172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture
• RLST174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency
• RLST175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine
• RLST176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership
• RLST177 PO - Gender and Religion
• RLST178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience
• RLST183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines
• RLST184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

Integrative Courses and Reading and Research Courses

• RLST180 CM - Interpreting Religious Worlds
• RLST186 CM - Research Practicum in Archeology
• RLST190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
• RLST199 CM - Independent Study in Religious Studies

Courses in Religious Studies at The Claremont Colleges

Religious studies is a cooperative program of The Claremont Colleges, and majors are encouraged to take courses at the other Claremont Colleges. These courses are not considered cross-registration for students. Courses and descriptions are available in the other College catalogs.