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> Students will learn about a number of significant religious and interreligious thinkers\/practitioners, concepts, principles, traditions, material artifacts, beliefs, practices, and histories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, students will learn about:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 > the great diversity within and among religious\/spiritual\/soteriological traditions as well as their shared concerns and interrelations. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> religious\/spiritual\/soteriological ideologies and practices that privilege some lives and communities over others and may have led to conflict with, and\/or marginalization, colonization, and\/or destruction of, the latter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> religious\/spiritual\/soteriological ideologies, practices, and communities of solidarity, liberation,  and resistance to oppression.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> <\/em>Students will develop the ability to apply key critical analytical methods, lenses, and theories, to the study of religious phenomena and their representations in a variety of contexts, media, and discourses<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> In particular, students will develop the ability to apply lenses that illuminate the intersectionality of race, class, gender, ethnicity, ability, sexuality, and other modes of social differentiation in relation to religions\/religiosity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Students will explore the theories and methods currently used in the field of Religious Studies (including cultural-historical, sociological, anthropological, psychological, rhetorical, and theological), and learn more about where this field of study sits in relation to other Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Interdisciplinary fields of study. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Students will develop familiarity with religious studies as an academic field, including awareness of key concepts, fault lines\/debates, and histories\/legacies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Among key concepts are religion\/religions\/religious, secular, sacred, profane, fundamentalism, enlightenment, mindfulness, spirituality, salvation, etc<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Among fault lines\/debates are those related to distinctions among categories like religious, secular, and spiritual; universalism and particularism, elite and popular, world religions and indigenous religions, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Among histories\/legacies are those of Christian and white supremacy and Euro-US centrism in the field and its applications, as well as the harnessing of religious studies to projects of equity, inclusion, liberation, and greater interreligious understanding, collaboration, and mutual empowerment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Students will develop skills in listening, reading, researching, speaking, working collaboratively with other students, and writing, including the ability to communicate effectively and ethically about complex and controversial topics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These skills will be honed through such practices as close reading of primary and secondary texts; research projects; community-engaged learning, public and\/or in-class presentations, discussions, and debates; and written (and non-written) assignments in multiple genres.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Students will investigate what it could mean to cultivate action, practice, and reciprocal engagement with the many communities of which we are part, including sustained reflection on one\u2019s own positionality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key component of such cultivation is basic and holistic preparation for pursuing further study and\/or  fulfilling careers in a variety of possible fields, including research and teaching; policy, advocacy and community work; law; ministry; medicine; cultural creation, organization, curation, and preservation. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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