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2025-2026 Catalog > Course Descriptions > RELS - Religious Studies

RELS - Religious Studies

RELS 121 The History of the Devil
RELS 110 Introduction to Native American Religions
RELS 111 Displaced peoples of the Mediterranean
RELS 113 Religion and Horror: Gods, Ghosts, Demons, and Monsters
RELS 120 How to Live in the Midst of Dying: Religion and Climate Change
RELS 130 Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish Identities
RELS 145 Introduction to American Religion
RELS 147 "Cults" and "Sects": New Religious Movements in the Americas
RELS 150 Introduction to Islam
RELS 160 How to Live and Die Well in Buddhist Traditions
RELS 169 Transpacific Movements and Activisms: Asian and Asian American Connections Across the Pacific
RELS 190 History of Early Christianity
RELS 197 Independent Study
RELS 200 Psychedelics and Religion
RELS 203 Food and Religion: When Eating is Believing
RELS 204 Queering Religion
RELS 205 Holy Sh*t!: Engaging the Materiality of Religion
RELS 207 Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism
RELS 208 Black Power and Jews, Black Power and Palestine
RELS 210 God and Money: Religion in the Marketplace
RELS 212 Jerusalem: A Holy City
RELS 214 Medicine, Magic, Miracle: Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean
RELS 215 Shamans, Sages, and Spirits in East Asia
RELS 221 “Indecent” Liberation in Latin America
RELS 222 Islam and Capitalism
RELS 228 Religion, Liberation, and Latin American Social Movements
RELS 232 Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible
RELS 235 Gendering Jews in Southwest Asia and North Africa
RELS 242 Environmental Ethics and Religion
RELS 245 African American Religious Traditions
RELS 246 Muslim Abolitionist Futures
RELS 248 Religion in Los Angeles
RELS 250 Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 255 What is the Shari’a? Justice, Law, and Ethics in Islam
RELS 256 Borderland Buddhisms: Religion in Tibet and the Himalayas
RELS 257 The Past, Present, and Politics of Antisemitism
RELS 258 Magic, Morality, and Modernity in China
RELS 259 Black Magic
RELS 261 Between Empire and Appropriation: Buddhism in the Modern World
RELS 266 Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism
RELS 276 Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific
RELS 277 History of the End of the World
RELS 281 The Religious Right
RELS 295 Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 297 Independent Study
RELS 302 Spirit Possession
RELS 335 Downloading Deities, Mediating Meditation, Streaming Spirits: Religion and Media in Asia
RELS 351 "Good" Sex: History of Sexual Ethics
RELS 393 Directed Research in Religious Studies
RELS 395 Special Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 397 Independent Study
RELS 490 Senior Seminar
RELS 493 Advanced Directed Research in Religious Studies
RELS 497 Independent Study
RELS 499 Honors

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