Courses

(For course descriptions and details, please visit the Religion Department listing in the Mount Holyoke College Course Catalogue)

Fall 2007:

Introduction to Religion
First-Year Seminar: Holy Feast, Holy Fast; Food, Eating and the Sacred
Hagar, Sarah, and their Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Children
Introduction to the Qur’an
Introduction to Islam
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Midrash: Early Rabbis Wrestle with the Bible
Religious Movements in America
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Yoga Traditions
Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Buddhism
Buddhist Ethics
Topics in Contemporary Theology: Modern Mythmaking and Religion
Independent Study (395)

Spring 2007:

Introduction to Religion
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Jewish Spiritual Autobiographies
Ethics and Public Policy
Pilgrimage in Asia: Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Sacred Processions
Spirituals and Blues
Dimensions of Contemporary Judaism in America
Sex and the Early Church
Topics in Contemporary Theology: Feminist Theologies
Topics in Contemporary Theology: Women Who Shaped the Mind of Frederick Douglass
Topics in the Study of Islam: Islam in South Asia
Independent Study (295)
Independent Study (395)

Fall 2006:

Introduction to Religion
Introduction to Islam
Introduction to the New Testament
Early Christianity in Conflict
Women and Gender in Islam
Religious Ethics
Introduction to Judaism
Women in American Religious History
Religion and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century West
Buddhism in the Pioneer Valley
Contemplative Practice and Religious Traditions
Independent Study (295)
Independent Study (395)