Spring 2023 religious studies classes

Pre-enrollment for Spring 2023 classes begins on November 2 for undergraduate students at Cornell. 

All Spring 2023 RELST classes

Required for the major

• History, Theory, and Methods in the Academic Study of Religion

Topics

• Archaeology and the Bible
• Augustine
• Desert Monasticism
• Hasidism: History, Community, Thought
• Introduction to Asian Religions
• Introduction to Judaism
• Introduction to Quranic Arabic
• Islam and Gender
• Jewish Law, State Law
• Jews, Christians, and Others in Late Antiquity
• Judeophobia, Islamophobia, Racism
• Latin Philosophical Texts
• Medicine, Magic and Science in the Ancient Near East
• Moses Maimonides
• Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
• Opt Out, Tune In: Hermits, Pilgrims and Dharma Bums, from East Asia to Ithaca
• Problems in Byzantine Art
• Projects of Modernity in Asia
• Temple in the World: Buddhism in Contemporary South and Southeast Asia
• The Jewish Atlantic: 1492-Present
• Zen Buddhism: Ecology, Sustainability and Daily Life