Summer
2007
REL4190-01/5195-01
Comparative Religious Bioethics (Kalbian)
REL4290-01/5297-01
Dead Sea Scrolls (Goff)
In this class we will analyze key manuscripts of the Qumran corpus.
We will focus on matters such as the history, beliefs, and praxis
of the Jewish sectarian movement that is associated with the scrolls,
the archaeology of the Qumran site, and the significance of the
scrolls for understanding Second Temple Judaism and the development
of both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.
REL4491-01/5497-01
Christian Political Thought (Kelsay)
A survey of some of the leading figures in the tradition of Christian
thinking about issues in political ethics: the nature of politics,
the purpose of government, justification of war, and other issues.
In this short (six week) term, we will focus on biblical themes
and the ways these are developed by Thomas Aquinas, John Locke,
and Reinhold Niebuhr.
REL4905-01
Humor/Satire in Religion (Porterfield)
REL5906-01
Protestant Ethics (Kelsay)
REL5906-02
Evangelicalism (Porterfield)
REL5906-03
Hinduism & Gender (Erndl)
REL5906-04
Hindi Readings (Erndl)
REL6498-01
Seminar: American Religious History (Corrigan)
INR
3932/5936 International Human Rights Law [London] (Twiss and H.
Talbot D'Alemberte)
An overview of the major elements of international human rights
from the nineteenth century to the present, involving the coordination
of legal and historical readings with museum visits (e.g., Imperial
War, British, Victoria and Albert, Maritime, and Tate Museums)
and domestic and international tours (e.g., British abolitionist
sites, Parliament, law chambers, courts; Brussels; The Hague).
Topics include human rights and humanitarian law prior to World
War II; crimes of war, crimes against humanity, and genocide in
the twentieth century; United Nations declarations, conventions,
and agencies; regional human rights organizations (especially
European); and international criminal tribunals (from Nuremberg
to the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda). Co-instructed with H. Talbot
D'Alemberte (Law School).
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