Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

HISTORY 231G
European Reformations, 1500-1650 (HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)

Stokes, L. (PI)
Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 331G
European Reformations, 1500-1650 (HISTORY 231G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)

Stokes, L. (PI)
Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

LAW 7136
Democracy and Disagreement

Malek, G. (TA)
Goodman, K. (TA)
Brest, P. (PI)
Satz, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
4:50 PM

OSPKYOTO 58
A Journey into the Buddhist Visual Arts of Japan

Ludvik, C. (PI)
Hugh, M. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPMADRD 74
Islam in Spain and Europe: 1300 Years of Contact

Ariza Armada, A. (PI)
Perez Leal, P. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Winter

OSPMADRD 75
Sefarad: The Jewish Community in Spain

Ariza Armada, A. (PI)
Perez Leal, P. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 2
Is Stanford a Religion?

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 2
Is Stanford a Religion?

Lum, K. (PI)
Huddleston, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 4
What Didn't Make the Bible (CLASSICS 9N, HISTORY 112C, JEWISHST 4)

Penn, M. (PI)
Xie, A. (TA)
Parasseri, N. (TA)
Ahmad, S. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 10N
The Good Death

Bigelow, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

RELIGST 12N
Perspectives on the Good Life

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 12N
Perspectives on the Good Life

Yearley, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 17N
Meditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism

Mross, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 18N
What is Called Living?

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 23X
Democracy and Disagreement (COMM 3, CSRE 31, HISTORY 3C, PHIL 30, POLISCI 31, PSYCH 31A, PUBLPOL 3, SOC 13)

Malek, G. (TA)
Goodman, K. (TA)
Brest, P. (PI)
Satz, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
4:50 PM

RELIGST 24S
Witches, Witchcraft, and Witch-Hunting in Early America

Mueller, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
12:30 PM

RELIGST 50
Exploring Buddhism: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges

Lavole, O. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 53X
Sustainability and Civilization (BIO 35, HISTORY 35, POLISCI 35)

Dirzo, R. (PI)
Mayse, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 56
Exploring Chinese Religions

Kieschnick, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 62
Exploring Islamic Mysticism

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 86
Exploring the New Testament (CLASSICS 43, HISTORY 111B, JEWISHST 86)

Penn, M. (PI)
Lavole, O. (PI)
Xie, A. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 105
The Art of Exorcisms

Amin, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 108X
Environmental Wayfinding: Cultural, Artistic, and Spiritual Approaches to Life on a Changing Planet (EARTHSYS 108, EARTHSYS 208, NATIVEAM 108)

Veidis, E. (PI)
Polk, E. (PI)
Shirhatti, V. (TA)
Herring, R. (TA)
Montague, D. (PI)
Wilcox, M. (PI)
Mayse, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 116
Buddhist Philosophy

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

RELIGST 118X
Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (ANTHRO 118, PSYCH 118A)

Luhrmann, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

RELIGST 119X
Global History of Psychedelics: From the Stone Age to Silicon Valley (PSYC 119A, PSYC 219A)

Greer, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 124
The Bhagavad Gita: The Many Lives of a Text

Schwartz, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 135
Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States (AFRICAAM 135A, AMSTUD 135X, CSRE 120, CSRE 135, GLOBAL 137)

Ahmed, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

RELIGST 137
The History of Yoga: Yoga's Roots, Philosophy, and Practice

Monteserin Narayana, D. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 141
Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AFRICAAM 221, AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 141
Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AFRICAAM 221, AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126)

McLoughlin, S. (TA)
Karasinski-Sroka, M. (TA)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 144
John Calvin and Christian Faith

Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 145
The Gothic and the Supernatural (ENGLISH 145B)

Willburn, S. (PI)
Monteserin Narayana, D. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 150
Texts that Changed the World from the Ancient Middle East (COMPLIT 31, HUMCORE 111, JEWISHST 150)

Shemtov, V. (PI)
Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

RELIGST 151
Mantras, Meditations, and Spiritual Bodies: Healing in Tantric Traditions

Karasinski-Sroka, M. (TA)
Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 153
Buddhist Tantra

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 156X
Sounds of Islam (MUSIC 186E)

Nazari, A. (TA)
Gill, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 158
Spiritualism and the Occult

Willburn, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 168
Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction

Sockness, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 170D
Readings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, JEWISHST 227D)

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
6:30 PM
8:20 PM

RELIGST 170D
Readings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, JEWISHST 227D)

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
5:30 PM
7:20 PM

RELIGST 171A
Biblical Greek (CLASSICS 6G, JEWISHST 5)

Ten-Hove, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 176X
That Mortal God: Deifying the Political in Early Modern Politics (JEWISHST 176L, JEWISHST 276L, PHIL 176L, PHIL 276L)

Covington, J. (GP)
Lorberbaum, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 196
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 199
Individual Work

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 199
Individual Work

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 199
Individual Work

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 199
Individual Work

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 202
Indian Religious History Through its Material Culture and Iconography (RELIGST 302)

Schwartz, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 205
Silk Road Transformation of Buddhism (RELIGST 305)

Jiang, Y. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 207
On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 307)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 207
On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 307)

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 208
Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 308)

Sharick, J. (PI)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 217B
Music and Sound in Buddhism (JAPAN 217B, JAPAN 317B, RELIGST 317B)

Mross, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 220
Political Theology (POLISCI 230, RELIGST 320)

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 223
Advanced Readings in Jewish Mysticism (JEWISHST 223, RELIGST 323)

Mayse, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
8:30 AM
11:20 AM

RELIGST 226
The Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HISTORY 216B, HISTORY 316B, RELIGST 326)

Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 231
European Reformations, 1500-1650 (HISTORY 231G, HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 331)

Stokes, L. (PI)
Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 231X
Learning Religion: How People Acquire Religious Commitments (AMSTUD 231X, EDUC 130, EDUC 231, JEWISHST 291X)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 234
Islam and Material Culture (RELIGST 334)

Bigelow, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 242
Chinese Buddhism (RELIGST 342)

Kieschnick, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 250
Readings in Tibetan Literature (RELIGST 350)

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 262
Sex and the Early Church (CLASSICS 262, FEMGEN 262, FEMGEN 362R, RELIGST 362)

Penn, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 266A
Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Race, Faith, and Kinship (AFRICAAM 266C)

Gurley, C. (PI)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 280
Reconstructing Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Christian Theology

Sockness, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 289X
Desire, Violence, and the Sacred: Introduction to Rene Girard's Theory (COMPLIT 289E, FRENCH 289E, POLISCI 289E)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 290
Majors' Seminar: Theories of Religion

Schwartz, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

RELIGST 297
Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 297
Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 297
Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 298
Senior Colloquium

Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 302
Indian Religious History Through its Material Culture and Iconography (RELIGST 202)

Schwartz, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 304B
Theories and Methods

Bigelow, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 305
Silk Road Transformation of Buddhism (RELIGST 205)

Jiang, Y. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 307
On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 207)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 307
On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 207)

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 308
Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 208)

Sharick, J. (PI)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 314
Seminar in Buddhist Historiography

Kieschnick, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 317B
Music and Sound in Buddhism (JAPAN 217B, JAPAN 317B, RELIGST 217B)

Mross, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

RELIGST 320
Political Theology (POLISCI 230, RELIGST 220)

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 323
Advanced Readings in Jewish Mysticism (JEWISHST 223, RELIGST 223)

Mayse, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
8:30 AM
11:20 AM

RELIGST 326
The Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HISTORY 216B, HISTORY 316B, RELIGST 226)

Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 331
European Reformations, 1500-1650 (HISTORY 231G, HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 231)

Stokes, L. (PI)
Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 334
Islam and Material Culture (RELIGST 234)

Bigelow, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

RELIGST 336
Calvin's Theology

Pitkin, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 342
Chinese Buddhism (RELIGST 242)

Kieschnick, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 350
Readings in Tibetan Literature (RELIGST 250)

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 359A
American Religions in a Global Context: Proseminar

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 359A
American Religions in a Global Context: Proseminar

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 359A
American Religions in a Global Context: Proseminar

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

RELIGST 362
Sex and the Early Church (CLASSICS 262, FEMGEN 262, FEMGEN 362R, RELIGST 262)

Penn, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 379
Researching and Writing Religious History

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
9:00 AM
11:50 AM

RELIGST 382
Research in American Religions

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 382
Research in American Religions

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 382
Research in American Religions

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 382
Research in American Religions

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 384
Research in Christian Studies

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 384
Research in Christian Studies

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 384
Research in Christian Studies

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 384
Research in Christian Studies

Lum, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 385
Research in Buddhist Studies

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 385
Research in Buddhist Studies

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 385
Research in Buddhist Studies

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 385
Research in Buddhist Studies

Gentry, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 386
Research in Islamic Studies

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 386
Research in Islamic Studies

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 386
Research in Islamic Studies

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 386
Research in Islamic Studies

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 387
Research in Jewish Studies

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 387
Research in Jewish Studies

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 387
Research in Jewish Studies

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 387
Research in Jewish Studies

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 388
Research in Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 388
Research in Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 388
Research in Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 388
Research in Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 389
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 389
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 389
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 389
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

RELIGST 390
Advanced Teaching Practicum

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 390
Advanced Teaching Practicum

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 390
Advanced Teaching Practicum

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 391
Teaching Religious Studies

Penn, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 392
Paper in the Field

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 392
Paper in the Field

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 392
Paper in the Field

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 395
Master of Arts Thesis

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 395
Master of Arts Thesis

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 395
Master of Arts Thesis

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 399
Readings in Theories and Methods

Sockness, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 801
TGR Project

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 801
TGR Project

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 801
TGR Project

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 802
TGR Dissertation

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

RELIGST 802
TGR Dissertation

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

RELIGST 802
TGR Dissertation

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

RELIGST 802
TGR Dissertation

Abbasi, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer