Courses in Religious Studies

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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.

Introductory Courses

RLST 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
RLST 015 CM - Myth and Religion
RLST 016 PO - Life-Story of the Buddha
RLST 020 PO - The Biblical Heritage
RLST 021 CM - Jewish Civilization
RLST 022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
RLST 037 CM - History of World Christianity
RLST 040 PO - Religious Ethics
RLST 041 CM - Morality and Religion
RLST 043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought
RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible

Historical Religious Traditions I, Asian

RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
RLST 101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics I – The Mahabharata
RLST 101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics II – The Ramayana
RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China
RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan
RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism
RLST 108 PO - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia
RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions
RLST 117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine, and Practice
RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship
RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia
RLST 159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia
RLST 169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

Historical Religious Traditions II, Western

RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity
RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity
RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory
RLST 120 CM - The Life of Jesus
RLST 121 CM - Pauline Tradition
RLST 128 PO - The Religion of Islam
RLST 129 CM - Formative Judaism
RLST 131 CM - Synagogue and Church
RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism
RLST 135 CM - Jerusalem, the Holy City
RLST 136 CM - Religion in Contemporary America
RLST 137 CM - Jewish-Christian Relations
RLST 138 CM - American Religious History
RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
RLST 156 CM - The Protestant Reformation
RLST 159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia
RLST 165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
RLST 169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

Philosophy of Religion, Theology, and Ethics

RLST 042 PO - The Art of Living
RLST 080 PO - The Holy Fool: the Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness
RLST 140 PO - The Idea of God
RLST 141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation
RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African American Engagements with(in) Western Thought
RLST 143 CM - Philosophy of Religion
RLST 144 CM - Life, Death, and Survival of Death
RLST 145 CM - Religion and Science
RLST 148 PO - Sufism
RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought
RLST 154 PO - Life, Love, and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics, and Social Practice
RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Response to the Holocaust
RLST 158 PO - Jewish Mysticism

Contemporary and Women’s Studies of Religion

RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature
RLST 153 CM - Religion and American Politics (seminar)
RLST 161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
RLST 161A CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India
RLST 161B CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India
RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Thought
RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition
RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition
RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
RLST 166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence
RLST 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power
RLST 170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity
RLST 171 CM - Religion and Film
RLST 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture
RLST 174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency
RLST 175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine
RLST 177 PO - Gender and Religion
RLST 178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience
RLST 183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines
RLST 184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

Integrative Courses and Reading and Research Courses

RLST 180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds
RLST 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies
RLST 199 CM - Independent Study in Religious Studies