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• RLST 100: Introduction to Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  An introduction to the academic study of religion through an examination of various dimensions of religious expression and traditions. Will cover such areas as problems about definition of religion; approaches to the study of religion; the goals, language, and rituals of religion; cases of religious experience; faith, disbelief, and alternatives to religion; religion and the sociocultural context.
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• RLST 110: World Religions

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  A comparative study of the history, teaching, and rituals of the major religions of the world and their influence on contemporary society. This nonsectarian approach to religions emphasizes comparisons/contrasts between Western and non-Western religious traditions as well as the contemporary global nature of Western traditions.
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• RLST 120: Comparative Religious Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines diversity of thought and practice on selected ethical issues in several major religious traditions. Using a comparative approach, the course will critically analyze similarities and differences within and across religious traditions on particular ethical concerns, such as poverty, violence, and contemporary controversies regarding race, gender and sexuality. Prerequisite:    None
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• RLST 245: Women and Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines women's roles and experiences within some of the world's major religious traditions, both past and present. In exploring patterns and instances of the empowerment and oppression of women the course pays careful attention to feminist critiques.
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• RLST 300: Methodologies of Religious Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Introduces students to the theories and methods of the study of religion, includingphenomenological, historical, sociological, anthropological, psychological, ecological, feminist, and postmodern approaches. Restricted to majors and minors in Religious Studies Prerequisite:    Religious Studies major or minor.
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• RLST 311: Eastern Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  An examination of texts from East Asia and South Asia that address such philosophical areas as the nature of human knowledge, the nature of reality, and ethics. The class may include readings from such traditions as Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and/or Hinduism.
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• RLST 345: Women in the Bible

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Surveys and examines the stories and issues concerning women in the Bible, and introduces students to the questions and methods of research that the contemporary world and feminist biblical scholars bring to them. Prerequisite:    One RLST or WMST course or instructor permission
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• RLST 360: African Religions

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  An examination of the nature of African traditional religion and how traditional religion, Islam, and Christianity coexist and influence each other.
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• RLST 365: Native North American Religions

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  An introduction to the indigenous religions of North America and to the peoples who practice these rich and varied approaches to the sacred. This course not only examines major religious themes and dimensions (myth, ritual, ethics, etc.) but includes a historical perspective on North American Indian lifeways. This perspective involves discussion of the clash with Euro-American values and contemporary native religious responses to social crisis and change. (Also offered as ANTH 365; may not be taken for duplicate credit.)
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• RLST 374: Buddhism

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Explores the history, teachings, and practices of the main schools of Buddhism. Considers the tradition both as it has developed in Asia as well as its modification as it has been introduced into Western societies.
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