• The Department of Religion
• Courses for fall 2019

• The academic study of religion allows one to explore questions of human being in many ways.

• For example, one might pursue such questions by studying different faith traditions.

• Tuesday & Thursday 8-9:20 AM
• 114 Hall of Languages
• image description: Tadodaho Sid Hill, (spiritual leader of the Haudenosaunee, whose colonized name is the “Iroquois”), holding the Confederacy Wampum Belt, or Hiawatha Belt, at Onondaga Lake where the Great Law of Peace originated over 1000 years ago. (photo by Phil Arnold, 2016)

• Fall 2019
• Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:50 A survey of Jewish thought and culture from the Bible to modernity image description: an apple orchard with the aforementioned texted imposed on top of it

• 11:00AM-12:20PM, Tuesday & Thursday, Fall 2019
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• Online, Fall 2019
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• Tuesday & Thursday 11:00 -12:20

• This course introduces Hindu traditions and practices. We move between cosmological, theological and philosophical understandings, and the ways these motivate ordinary and extraordinary human lives. We see these understandings expressed through myth and moral teachings, storytelling and poetry, ritual and devotion. Throughout the course we remain interested in contemporary Indian society where Hinduism's many streams of thought have ongoing significance.

• image description: triptych of images from Mallory Hennigar's field work in India

• Mondays + Wednesdays
• 2:15pm - 3:35pm
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• Fall 2019
• Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:20
• For more information about this course, contact Prof. Burrus at mvburrus@syr.edu
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• Fall 2019
• Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:50
• image description: The words American Judaism super imposed over the Brooklyn Skyline

• One might also pursue questions of human being by studying religion’s role in society.

• Monday/Wednesday F19: 12:45-2:05
• image description: The singling gongs end the Vyasa Yoga members practice yoga at the BRIDGE EAST MARINA BAY GARDEN in Singapore for the International Day of Yoga. June 2018.

• Fall 2019/Online
• Image description: Three veiled people in an outdoor market

• Fall 2019
• Mondays and Wednesdays 3:45-5:05
• Image description: Image from the NODAPL protests. Protestors standing behind the Defend the Sacred Banner.

• Fall 2019 9:30AM-10:50AM, Tuesday/Thursday
• Image description: Get Out movie poster by Andrew Sebastian Kwan

• Fall 2019 MW 2:15-3:35
• Instructor: Aarti Patel
• The U.S. religious landscape wasn’t always like this. How did we get to the societal dynamics we see, hear, and experience in the U.S. today? This course will explore the historical migration of diverse religious practices, traditions, and cultural groups to form what is known today as part of the North American diaspora.
• Image description: stencil of people migrating. Image Credit: Business-Standard Web Team

• Fall 2019
• MW 3:45-5:05

• What does it mean to doubt the existence of any reality beyond our natural sense? This course will explore this historically unusual way of thinking that has arisen among certain modern peoples influenced by secularism. it will survey the history of atheism and Agnosticism along with the arguments atheists and agnostics make for the absence of the supernatural. It will also discuss the possibilities for social association ethical thought and an environmental consciousness among communities of atheists and agnostics.
• image description: sun rising over the horizon of the earth. The symbol for Atheist has been etched with a stylized pen over the horizon so it looks like the sun drew the symbol.

• Philosophical inquiry provides yet another way to investigate religion’s illumination of human being.

• Fall 2019, 5:00-6:20 Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Fog at Niagara falls

• Fall 2019 Tuesday/Thursday, 2:00-3:20PM

• This course invites you to look at your own and others’ dreams, loves, conflicts, moral beliefs and religious practices from the perspective of the unconscious passions at play. Drawing on the clinical findings of Freud, Jung, Fromm, Erikson and contemporary psycho- analysts, the course investigates various aspects of unconsciously-motivated conduct. The main criticisms that depth psychological theorists have directed at conventional religion and morality are considered alongside the guidance that these same theorists offer regarding how to live and what to believe.

• Image description: a man lying on the psychoanalytical couch tooting his own horn while Freud listens.

• Fall 2019
• Tuesday/Thursday, 5:00-6:20PM
• In concert with the Humanities Center Symposium’s 2019 theme of silence, this class looks at how silent films image religious traditions and themes; how films engage silence as a religious practice or context; how films suggest the religious value of “nature” and “civilization” through different soundscapes and silentscapes; and how the silence of censorship or resistance is often coded as “religious”.
• Image description: course flyer stills from various films that will be taught in the course.

• Instructor: Mr. Jordan Brady Loewen
• Monday/Wednesday 5:35-6:15
• image description: stencils of the faces of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the so-called masters of suspicion, imposed upon a series of envelopes.

• Fall 2019
• 5:15-8:00PM, Wednesday

• And the examination of sacred texts and literature provide yet other compelling ways to pursue questions of human being.

• Tuesday & Thursday 11:00-12:20
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• Fall 2019
• Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:50
• Meets Humanities and Writing Intensive requirements and includes a required field trip on September 28 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

• Honors 340

• Fall 2019. Mondays/Wednesdays 3:45-5:05 and a Saturday field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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• Come! Explore the Academic Study of Religion with us this fall.

• Summer at SU

• Do you have Humanities requirements that you need or would like to fulfill?

• The Department of Religion is also offering courses this Summer.

• Summer 2019, Online
• image banner: "Harvesting water chestnuts," a photo by Ann Gold (Watson Professor of Religion), was voted one of the best in the AAA 2012 photo contest.

• Summer 2019, Online

• What is the reality of Islam as a faith a culture and an intellectual worldview?

• Discovering Islam answers this question in three steps. The first step examines the formation of Islamic Civilization in the pre-modern era starting with the life of Prophet Muhammad, turning to a brief investigation of the two sources of Islam (Qur'an and Sunna--the tradition of the prophet) and then investigating how the Islamic sciences and traditions translated their tenets into a unique way of living and thinking. The second step of the course further explores the heart of classic Islamic thought and the conception of the relation among Islamic sciences at the height of Islamic Civilization. The Third and last step of the course will examine the Islamic conception of ethics and politics. In this vein, it will compare and contrast classical and contemporary perspectives on these central problems focusing on present day challenges.

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• Summer 2019, Online
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• Thank you for your attention!
• Hope to see you again in the Fall and/or Summer.

to view current courses, visit: http://religion.syr.edu/courses/current-courses.html