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Religious Studies

Spring Semester 2010

RELI 103: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

By providing guidance in the historical, geographical, and faith contexts, as well as the literary art involved in the production and crafting of this great literature, the course helps students understand the Hebrew scriptures, which have been a source of enjoyment, inspiration, and spiritual direction for centuries.

Required Textbooks

  • Michael D. Coogan, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context (2008)
  • Michael D. Coogan (ed.), The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Edition with the Apocrypha, 3rd edition (2007)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Jared Anderson, MA
  • Department: Religious Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

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RELI 106: Introduction to Early Judaism

This course provides an introduction to early Judaism. It covers that period of history in which Israelite religion, the religion of King Solomon, becomes Judaism, the religion of the rabbis, following its development up until the transition to the medieval period.

Required Textbooks

  • Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (1991)
  • Lawrence H. Schiffman. Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of SecondTemple and Rabbinic Judaism (1998)
  • Shaye J. D. Cohen. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, 2nd edition (2006)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Steve Werlin, MA
  • Department: Religious Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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RELI 141: African-American Religions

This is a survey of the historical development of various African-American religious traditions, with emphasis on folk spirituality, gender issues, black nationalism, and the role of the church in the black community.

Required Textbooks

  • Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans (2001), ISBN 978-0195145854
  • Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South, (1998), ISBN 978-0807846940

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Timur Yuskaev, MA
  • Department: Religious Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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RELI 180: Introduction to Islamic Civilization

This course is an introduction to some of the major themes, issues, people, places, sights, and sounds of Islam past and present. Being an introductory course, it presumes no prior knowledge of Islam. This course is intended to highlight the manifold expressions of Islamic piety in diverse historical, cultural, and geographical contexts. Its two broad aims are, first and foremost, to provide basic knowledge of Islamic history, belief and ritual life; and secondarily, to provide knowledge necessary for critically and actively analyzing discussions of Islam in media and contemporary world events.

Required Textbooks

  • Ernst, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (2003), ISBN 978-0807855775
  • Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel (2006), ISBN 978-0786715190
  • Renard, Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims (1996), ISBN 978-0520204171
  • Robinson, editor, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World (1996), ISBN 978-0521669931
  • Sells, Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations (1999), ISBN 978-1883991692

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Brannon Ingram, MA
  • Department: Religious Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

link How to Enroll

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