
RELIGST 4: What Didn't Make the Bible
TTH 3:00-4:20pm
Explore the politics behind what did and did not make it into the bible.

RELIGST 56: Exploring Chinese Religions
MW 3-4:20pm
An overview of major themes and historical developments in 5000 years of Chinese religion.

RELIGST 158: Spiritualism and the Occult
TTh 9-10:20am
This course will examine the popular mystical practices of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when millions of people in Europe and America described themselves as spiritualists

RELIGST 168: Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction
TTh 12-1:20
Most attitudes toward religion found on college campuses today trace their origins back to the European Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

RELIGST 204: The Buddhist Body: Exorcism, Self-Immolation, and Tattoo Art
Th 1:30-4:20
In Buddhist practices, devotees have long used their bodies to express religious devotion.
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