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RELI W

13 courses with the subject RELI W, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

RELI W4170History of Christianity: Topics in Pre-Modern Papal History4

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4171Law and Medieval Christianity4

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4215Hinduism Here4

Historical, theological, social and ritual dimensions of "lived Hinduism" in the greater New York area. Sites selected for in-depth study include worshipping communities, retreat centers, and national organizations with significant local influence. Significant fieldwork component

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4610Science, Nature, and Religion in 20th Century America4

BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). Examination of the relationship between scientific and religious ideas, with particular reference to American culture in the twentieth century. Explores the impact of such events as the Scopes trial and the popular faith in science and technology of the religious attitudes and beliefs of 20th-century Americans.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4614Defining Marriage: A History of Marriage in the United States4

BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). This seminar examines the changing purpose and meaning of marriage in the history of the United States from European colonization through contemporary debates over gay marriage. Topics include religious views of marriage, interracial marriage, and the political uses of the institution.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4620Religious Worlds of New York4

This seminar teaches ethnographic approaches to studying religious life with a special focus on urban religion and religions of New York. Students develop in-depth analyses of religious communities using these methods. Course readings address both ethnographic methods and related ethical and epistemological issues, as well as substantive topical issues of central importance to the study of urban religion, including transnationalism and immigration, religious group life and its relation to local community life, and issues of ethnicity, race and cosmopolitanism in pluralistic communities.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4640Religion in the American Public Sphere4

Introduction to questions surrounding the relationships between religion and the public sphere in the United States. Approaches topics of civil religion, church-state relations, religious pluralism in the public sphere, and the role of congregations in local communities using sociological theories and methods.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4645American Protestant Thought4

Looks at the relation between inquiry and imagination in selected religious writers and writers on religion in the American Protestant tradition. How does imagination serve inquiry? What are the objects of inquiry in these writings? Most of these authors reflect explicitly on imagination and inquiry, in addition to providing examples of both at work on religious topics.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4660Religious History of New York4

BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Survey of religious life in New York City, from the English conquest of 1684 through changes to the immigration laws in 1965.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4670Native American Religions4

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Limited to 20 students.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4721Religion and Social Justice4

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Sophomore standing.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4803Religion Vs. The Academy4

Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing. At least one course in Religion.

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

RELI W4805Secular and Spiritual America4

Priority given to majors and concentrators. Are Americans becoming more secular or more spiritual (not religious), or both? What are the connections between secularism and what is typically called non-organized religion or the spiritual in the United States? We will address these questions by looking at some of the historical trajectories that shape contemporary debates and designations (differences) between spiritual, secular and religious. Sociology (Barnard)

Subject: RELI W
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

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