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RS
292, Special Topics in Religious Studies
RS 292 will be offered to graduate students
at UCSB through the Religious Studies Department during fall term
2001 and 2002. Its intent is to complement our Science, Religion,
and the Human Experience research lectures series by means of intensive
readings drawn from lecturer publications as well as general works
in the field. Please contact Jim
Proctor for more information, or click
here to go to the course home page.
Other
Courses
A number of undergraduate and graduate courses at UCSB
address science and religion or closely-related topics; following
is a partial listing of courses (ordered as per course number) that
will be offered in the near future. For further information, please
contact the course instructor(s) or click on the related website
(linked to the course title below).
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Title |
Number |
Instructor(s) |
Term |
Summary |
Science,
Religion, and
Environmentalism:
Interwoven Worldviews |
General
Education 1 DW |
Jim
Proctor |
Spring 2002
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Examines
scientific and religious dimensions of environmentalism,
and compares worldviews accompanying development of science,
religion, and environmentalism. Course will include reading
seminars, online assignments and discussions, weekly movies,
and training in qualitative and quantitative analysis. |
| History
of Life |
Geology
30 |
Bruce
Tiffney |
Fall |
Examination
of the geological and biological processes affecting the
evolution of life on Earth from 3.8 billion years ago
to the present. Strong emphasis on the nature of the "scientific
method" as a way of understanding natural history. |
Modernity
and the
Process of Secularization |
Religious
Studies 106 |
Tom
Carlson |
Fall |
A study
of sociological, psychological, and philosophical attempts
to define the modern West in terms of the marginalization
and/or transformation of traditional Christian thought
and institutions. |
Proseminar
on Darwinism
and its Social Implications |
History
107P |
Michael
Osborne |
N/A |
Evolution,
natural selection, religion, teleology, Social Darwinism,
using the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Herbert
Spencer, and William Graham Sumner. |
| Science
and Society |
Anthropology
113BF |
Francesca
Bray |
Spring |
Anthropological
analysis of scientific institutions and the process by
which scientific knowledge is produced (e.g. lab culture;
cultural dimensions of scientific thought; science, nationalism,
power and money; the consumption of science). |
Religion,
Modernity,
and Politics |
Anthropology
154 |
Mayfair
Yang |
Spring |
This course
will explore the various relationships between "religion"
and the institution that has expanded the most under modernity,
the state. The readings and discussions will examine religious
nationalisms, such as the Hindu nationalist movement in
India, Islamism in Pakistan and Iran, and Shintoism and
Japanese fascism. Religion's role in colonialism and globalization,
such as Christianity in Africa is another area of study.
The course will also analyze how religions have also inspired
and galvanized political resistance movements of the opressed
against the Western colonial state, such as the cargoi
cult movement of Fiji and the Native American Ghost Dance.
The gender dimension of the religion will be explored
in discussions of women-centered religions and goddess
worship in different parts of the world. Finally, we will
uncover the importatnce of mass media in transmitting
and transferring religion in a modern and transnational
world. |
Religion
and Ecology
in the Americas |
Religious
Studies 193 |
Inéz
Talamantez |
N/A |
An overview
of the growing field of religion and ecology in the Americas.
Focus on spiritual traditions and land-based knowledge
indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. |
Religion
and Healing
in Global Perspective |
Religious
Studies 193B |
Catherine
Albanese |
N/A |
Comparative
and cross-cultural introduction to relationships between
religion, science, and healing arts, using selected case
studies and stressing alternatives to mainstream Western
medicine. Attention to underlying religio-philosophical
worldviews and to the ways in which they influence healing
practices. |
| Sacred/Profane |
RS 224 |
Tom
Carlson, Roger
Friedland |
N/A |
Through
a close reading of texts in philosophy, and social theory,
this seminar explores understandings of "sacred"
and "profane" in economic, political, scientific,
and technological contexts |
Vision, Knowledge,
and the Scientific
Revolution |
Art History 257A |
Ann
Jensen Adams |
Spring 2002 |
Before the seventeenth
century, the eye was believed to be connected directly
to the spirit. Sight was, therefore, the most powerful
and dangerous of senses; concepts lying behind the iconoclastic
fury of the Protestants who destroyed images in Catholic
churches in 1566. During the seventeenth century, in a
paradigm shift sometimes termed the Scientific Revolution,
a space was opened between vision and the soul, with new
attention to the imperfect ocular apparatus, and such
voluntary activities as reflection and reason, articulated
memorably by Descartes' "I think, therefore I am."
This course will investigate this moment crucial to our
modern world view through the work of individual artists
and authors. |
Special
Topics
in Religious Studies |
RS 292 |
Jim
Proctor, Clark
Roof |
Fall 2002 |
Complements
the Science, Religion, and the Human Experience research
lectures series by means of intensive readings drawn from
lecturer publications as well as general works in the
field. |
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