General Calendar 2000-2001
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UNIVERSITY OF
REGINA General Calendar 2000-2001 |
RLST 100 | RLST 200 | RLST 210 | RLST 220 | RLST 221 | RLST 222 | RLST 223 | RLST 224 | RLST 225 | RLST 226 | RLST 243 | RLST 244 | RLST 250 | RLST 260 | RLST 262 | RLST 264 | RLST 265 | RLST 266 | RLST 269 | RLST 271 | RLST 272 | RLST 273 | RLST 274 | RLST 275 | RLST 276 | RLST 280-289AA-ZZ | RLST 300 | RLST 310 | RLST 314 | RLST 320 | RLST 321 | RLST 323 | RLST 325 | RLST 326 | RLST 330 | RLST 350 | RLST 370 | RLST 371 | RLST 375 | RLST 380-389AA-ZZ | RLST 390-399AA-ZZ | RLST 400 | RLST 440 | RLST 470 | RLST 480-489AA-ZZ | RLST 490-497AA-ZZ | RLST 498 | RLST 499
FACULTY
L. Anderson
K. Oh (Coordinator)
CAMPION COLLEGE
D. Bolen
J. Kuikman
LUTHER COLLEGE
V. Greifenhagen
B. Hillis
R. Hordern
PARTICIPATING FACULTY
P. Antrobus
K.L. McGovern
Y. Petry
J.G. Schner, S.J.
W. Stahl
M. Vetter
Religious studies consist of a diversity of systematic inquiry into the timeless quest of human beings in the spiritual or transcendental realm as well as their attempts to understand and relate to it. The essential goal of courses in this domain is to offer the student the opportunity to examine critically the realm of the religious in its varied manifestations and to elucidate some of the perennial issues about life and human destiny. The courses are therefore not designed to foster personal religious commitment or to evaluate to that end the relative merits of various religious practices, traditions, and points of view.
Religious studies relate in many ways to all fields of human knowledge. As such, they are of relevance for all students, whether their major/minor fields of study or professional interests lie in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, education, administration, social work, or engineering.
The general requirements for degrees in the Faculty of Arts are described on page 76.
BA
A major in religious studies must include the following:
1. RLST 100
2. 5 courses covering 3 religions (Buddhism, Christianity, East Asian, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Religions of Greece and Rome), chosen from religious studies courses numbered 200 through 266
3. RLST 300
4. 2 other religious studies courses at the 300 or 400 level
5. 3 other courses in religious studies, of which two may be crosslisted courses. Crosslisted courses include ANTH 305, HUM 202, 203, 204, 205, PHIL 242, 322, and SOC 209
Credit hours |
Religious Studies major, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
RLST 100 |
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3.0 |
RLST 300 |
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3.0 |
FIVE courses from THREE of the following groups:
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
300- or 400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
300- or 400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
RLST course |
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3.0 |
RLST course or one of ANTH 305, HUM 202-205, PHIL 242, PHIL 322, SOC 209 |
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3.0 |
RLST course or one of ANTH 305, HUM 202-205, PHIL 242, PHIL 322, SOC 209 |
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36.0 |
Subtotal |
BA HONOURS
The honours program in religious studies must include the following:
In addition to the requirements of the BA degree:
1. One religious studies course at the 300 level
2. Two religious studies courses at the 400 level
3. RLST 498 and 499 (honours seminar and essay)
Credit hours |
Religious Studies Honours major, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
RLST 100 |
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3.0 |
RLST 300 |
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3.0 |
RLST 498 |
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3.0 |
RLST 499 |
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3.0 |
FIVE courses from THREE of the following groups:
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
300-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
300- or 400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
300- or 400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
RLST course |
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3.0 |
RLST course or one of ANTH 305, HUM 202-205, PHIL 242, PHIL 322, SOC 209 |
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3.0 |
RLST course or one of ANTH 305, HUM 202-205, PHIL 242, PHIL 322, SOC 209 |
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51.0 |
Subtotal |
MINOR IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES:
1. RLST 100 and 300
2. 2 courses in 2 different religions chosen from religious studies courses numbered 200 through 266
3. One religious studies course at the 300- or 400-level
4. One other religious studies or crosslisted course (see BA point 5 above for a list of crosslisted courses)
Credit hours |
Religious Studies Honours major, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
RLST 100 |
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3.0 |
RLST 300 |
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3.0 |
TWO courses from TWO of the following groups:
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3.0 |
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3.0 |
300- or 400-level RLST course |
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3.0 |
RLST course or one of ANTH 305, HUM 202-205, PHIL 242, PHIL 322, SOC 209 |
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18.0 |
Subtotal |
RLST 100
Introduction to Religious Studies
3:3-0
An introduction to the academic study of religion; a survey of the thought and practices of major world religions; the impact of religion on society and culture; modern scholarly approaches to religious experience.
RLST 200
Jesus of Nazareth
3:3-0
A study of the person of Jesus in Western tradition, his presentation in the Gospels, and the responses made to him through history. The various responses will be critically evaluated.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 210
Themes of the Bible
3:3-0
By examining the texts of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, the course will explore the main themes of what is known as the Bible. Themes such as election, covenant, people of God, mission, creation, monotheism, grace, fidelity, prophecy, sin, judgement, messiah, and exodus will be considered.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of coordinator.
RLST 220
Hinduism
3:3-0
An introduction to the fundamentals of the Hindu religious tradition, including its general characteristics, its milieu and development, its scriptures, beliefs and practices, and its ethical and social aspects. Emphasis will be placed on the contemporary faith of Hindus in relation to primary themes.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 221
Buddhism
3:3-0
The course will provide a basic introduction to Buddhism, dealing with its origin, development, doctrines, and practices. Special emphasis will be given to developments in interpretation of the founder's teachings.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 222
East Asian Religions
3:3-0
An introduction to the essentials of the East Asian religious traditions. The course will deal with basic beliefs and practices of Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese Buddhism, with the emphasis on their influence on the formation of such East Asian cultures as those of China, Korea, and Japan.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 223
Introduction to Judaism
3:3-0
A survey of the principles of Judaism, their historical development, and their impact on the Jewish way of life.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 224
Religions of Greece and Rome
3:3-0
A survey of ancient Greek and Roman religions from their origins to the beginning of the first century A.D.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 225
Christianity
3:3-0
An introduction to Christianity, outlining its historical background and basis, its literature, its principles and practices, the broad sweep of its development, and the formation of fundamental ideas, institutions, and denominations.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 226
Islam
3:3-0
An introduction to the foundations of Islam, including the life of the prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, beliefs and practices, and the development of fundamental Islamic ideas and institutions. Emphasis will be placed on the contemporary faith of Muslims as they deal with these primary themes.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 243
Medieval Christianity
3:3-0
This course will study the theological, cultural, spiritual, and institutional developments in the Western Church from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the Reformation. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of doctrine, authority in the Church, and lay and clerical spiritual movements.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 244
Issues in Reformation Thought
3:3-0
This course studies significant religious thinkers and issues of the Reformation era, with special reference to such figures as Martin Luther and John Calvin. Topics include original sin and salvation, free will and predestination, church-state relations, and the sacraments.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 250
Religion in Canada
3:3-0
This course is a survey of significant religious traditions in Canada, their intellectual background, development of their faith and practice, and their interaction with the Canadian context.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 260
Modern Hinduism
3:3-0
This course explores the Hindu encounter with the modern age. It examines the effects of influences such as Westernism, nationalism, and secularization, set within the development of the new India. It outlines the major religious movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, studies the principles of significant modern religious thinkers, surveys the Hindu impact on the West, and discusses the problems and prospects of contemporary Hinduism.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator. RLST 220 is recommended.
RLST 262
Zen Buddhism and its Contemporary Interpretations
3:3-0
This course examines the historical development of Zen, Zen techniques, Zen experience, and religio-aesthetic expressions such as poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, martial arts, gardening, and calligraphy. The course also explores the philosophical and psychological implications of Zen and its contemporary significance for inter-religious dialogue.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 264
Modern Christianity
3:3-0
This course covers the period from the Reformation to the 1950s, including responses to the rise of the natural and social sciences and the Industrial Revolution; fundamentalism, liberalism, neo- orthodoxy.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 265
Contemporary Christianity
3:3-0
Central issues in Christian thought since 1950, including secularism, Vatican II, the meaning of "God," liberation theology, the Third World theologies, feminist theology, theology and the environment, war and peace.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 266
Islam in the Modern World
3:3-0
This course explores the Muslim encounter with the modern age. It examines the traditional religious stance of the Islamic community, and the significant movements and influences that have affected it. It studies specific problems faced and decisions taken, and analyzes adaptations and tensions in Islamic faith and life resulting from the encounter.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator. RLST 226 is recommended.
RLST 269
Origins of Modern Antisemitism and the Holocaust
3:3-0
The religious and cultural roots of antisemitism and its manifestations in Western civilization: the rise of racist and political antisemitism in Europe; seminal issues in the history of the Holocaust ranging from Hitler's rise to power and the development of racial legislation in Germany (1933-1939) to the process of the destruction of European Jewry; an analysis of the various political and cultural responses to the events of this period.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 271
Religious Experiences and Psychological Perspectives
3:3-0
This course offers an opportunity to study a wide range of religious experiences from a variety of psychological perspectives. Current research in such areas as social psychology, personality development, and parapsychology will be considered in the search for alternative ways of describing or perceiving such experiences.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator. PSYC 100 is recommended.
RLST 272
Explorations in Awareness
3:3-0
An examination of the contemporary states of human awareness and modes of being and knowing, contributing to an understanding of human experiences ranging from ordinary to non-ordinary, from sensible to super-sensible, from phenomenal to spiritual. The source material will be selected from the human sciences and the proposed explorations will provide some elucidation of the human spiritual quest.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 273
Issues in Religion and Science
3:3-0
This course will examine the interface between religion and the natural and social sciences, beginning with an historical, methodological and philosophical overview. Current issues such as genetic engineering, population control, evolutionary theory, environmentalism, technology and values, and the ethics of scientific experimentation will be studied.
Prerequisite: 30 credit hours including RLST 100, one natural and one social science, or permission of coordinator.
RLST 274
Religious Symbolism
3:3-0
An enquiry into the symbolic nature of religious expressions, and an examination of different approaches to religious symbols, myths, and rituals.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 275
Women in World Religions
3:3-0
This course surveys the role and religious experiences of women in various world religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Lecture material will cover the accumulated traditional teachings on women and the feminine in each religion, with attention to specific historical developments. Contemporary scholars and issues will be highlighted with an emphasis on feminist methodologies.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 276
New Religious Movements
3:3-0
This course examines beliefs and practices of select New Religious Movements (NRMs) in North America such as New Age, Wicca, Scientology, Unification Church, UFO groups, Solar Temple, Children of God, Branch Davidians, Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and Transcendental Meditation. The emphasis of the course will be threefold: the historical roots and teachings of new religions, possible reasons for their growth, and issues related to their popularity and interpretation.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 280-289AA-ZZ
Selected Topics
3:3-0
Courses designed as required for groups of undergraduates.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 300
Theory and Methodology for the Study of Religion
3:3-0
This course examines various theories and approaches to the study of religion and religions, emphasizing prominent scholars and schools of thought of the past century, and discusses the question of a distinctive methodology.
Prerequisites: At least two 200-level religious studies courses covering at least 2 religions
RLST 310
Johannine Thought: Gospel and the Letters of John
3:3-0
This course gives a detailed exposition of the thought and writings of the Johannine school (the Gospel and Letters of John) and their impact on the early Christian Church.
Prerequisites: RLST 100 and 200 or 225
RLST 314
Sacred Texts in Comparative Perspective
3:3-0
A comparative survey and analysis of sacred texts in world religions, focusing on themes, authority, oral and written tradition, literary influence, and problems of translation, interpretation and cross-cultural encounter.
Prerequisite: At least one of RLST 220-229
RLST 320
Hindu Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism
3:3-0
This course examines the development of the main streams of Hindu philosophy, theology, and mysticism with emphasis on the six schools of Indian philosophy. Contributions of the Yoga, Sankhya, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Purva, and Uttara Mimamsa (Vedanta) will be considered and their intellectual legacy will be assessed.
Prerequisite: RLST 220 or permission of the co-ordinator.
RLST 321
Selected Themes in Buddhist Thought
3:3-0
An examination of selected themes and movements in the history of Buddhist thought such as the Madhyamika doctrine of emptiness, the Hua-yen concept of interrelatedness, and the Zen teaching of absolute nothingness. Includes the study of significant texts and figures.
Prerequisite: RLST 221 or 262, or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 323
Contemporary Jewish Thought
3:3-0
The development and range of modern Jewish thought from Mendelssohn to Cohen, Baeck, Hirsch, Rozenzweig, Buber, Heschel, Kaplan, Soloveitchik, and Kook. The Holocaust and its aftermath and the significance of the establishment of the State of Israel will be studied using Rubenstein, Fackenheim, and Maybaum.
Prerequisite: RLST 223
RLST 325
Liberation Theology
3:3-0
This course studies recent Christian thought classified as "liberation theology": Black, feminist, Latin American, and the contextual "third world theologies" of Africa and Asia.
Prerequisite: RLST 200, 264, or 265, or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 326
Islamic Philosophy, Theology, Law and Mysticism
3:3-0
An examination of the development of the main streams of Muslim philosophy, theology, law, and mysticism. The contributions of major Islamic thinkers in these areas will be considered and their intellectual legacy will be assessed.
Prerequisite: RLST 226 or 266
RLST 330
Popular Hindu Deities
3:3-0
This course introduces the student to the myths, rituals, and art forms of prominent Hindu deities. Emphasis will be given to the worshipper's perspective and the manner in which myth, ritual, and art function as forms of popular religious instruction. Major theories of myth and ritual as they apply to the religious tenets of the Hindu tradition will be examined.
Prerequisite: RLST 220 or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 350
Christian Denominationalism in North America
3:3-0
This course examines the development of Christian denominationalism in North America. Historical, phenomenological, and comparative approaches will contrast Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, and the development of North American Protestant groups.
Prerequisite: One of RLST 200, 225, 244, 250, 264, or 265
RLST 370
Mysticism in World Religions
3:3-0
An examination of major mystical traditions both Eastern and Western, and an investigation of various theories concerning the phenomenon of mysticism.
Prerequisites: Two 200-level religious studies courses or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 371
Goddesses and Women: Feminine Models in Religion
3:3-0
This course surveys the feminine elements in religion. Important goddesses from sacred literature will be studied with respect to their historical, mythological and philosophical status. Selected religions in which women play major leadership roles will be examined with the aim of determining how motherhood and patriarchy intersect with religion.
Prerequisite: RLST 100 or permission of coordinator. RLST 275 is recommended.
RLST 375
Contemporary Christian Thinkers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3:3-0
This course studies the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who developed many of the themes of contemporary Christian thought. Specific topics include religion in Nazi Germany, the meaningfulness of God and the church, religion and secularism, religion and culture, Christology and ethics, and Bonhoeffer's impact on later theologies.
Prerequisite: RLST 225, 264, or 265, or permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 380-389AA-ZZ
Selected Topics
3:3-0
Courses designed as required for groups of senior undergraduates.
Prerequisite: One 200-level religious studies course
RLST 390-399AA-ZZ
Directed Reading and Research
3:3-0
Courses designed for individual undergraduate students.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 400
The Development of Religious Studies
3:3-0
The course traces the history of the modern study of religion in the West, with special emphasis on the development from Max Muller's introduction in 1867 of the "science of religion" to the present.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 440
Seminar in Religious Studies
3:3-0
An examination of the great recurring themes in human religious experience and thinking, with an attempt to reassess their significance for, and their relevance to, the human situation.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 470
Representative Religious Thought
3:3-0
This course studies significant intellectual and theological contributions made by selected thinkers from different religious traditions. Special attention is given to alternative conceptions of God, human existence, and religious experience.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 480-489AA-ZZ
Selected Topics
3:3-0
Courses designed as required for groups of honours or qualifying-year students.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 490-497AA-ZZ
Directed Reading and Research
3:3-0
Courses designed for individual honours or qualifying-year students.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 498
Honours Seminar
3:3-0
Honours seminar.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
RLST 499
Honours Essay
3:3-0
Honours essay.
Prerequisite: Permission of co-ordinator.
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