Throughout human history, law and religion have had an intimate—and at times fraught—relationship. Yet despite statements of religious neutrality, freedom, and secularism, many nations today continue to encounter conflicts over religion and law. This course …
Month: November 2017
African American Religions
This course explores the varieties of African American religious expression. As we trace their historical development from the colonial era to the present, we will attend to the continued influence of Africa and the Caribbean …
Struggling with God in Literature
This course explores how modern writers read sacred texts to find meaning in a world disenchanted by science and the Enlightenment. We will examine the turbulent world of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century eastern European literature in …
The History of Western Christianity to 1750
Religion & Art
Religious traditions rely upon some form of material expression or mediation, even in cases in which figural images are forbidden. Religion is very much grounded in human, embodied experience, often supported by material images, objects, …