14 courses with the subject RELH, 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.
RELH 1559New Course in Hinduism3
Effective Date 01/01/2010 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hinduism
Effective Date 03/02/2022 This course revisits the lives and conceptual legacies of notable female philosophers in Hinduism. In particular, we track a historiographical problem, a question of genre, and a conceptual question: how shall we recover women’s voices? What link between certain genres of thought and the role of female philosophers in history? What relationships between gender, embodiment, subjectivity and experience? Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELH 3559 topic #10 Philosopher Queens of Hinduism
Effective Date 10/03/2017 This course will explore Hindu views of the relationship between human, natural, and divine worlds, as well as the work of contemporary environmentalists in India. We will read texts both classical and modern (from the Bhagavad Gita to the writings of Gandhi), and will consider case studies of Hindu responses to issues such as wildlife conservation, pollution, deforestation, and industrial agriculture.
RELG 1040, RELH 2090, 2110, or instructor permission. Credits: 3
RELH 3180Nondualism3
Effective Date 10/10/2024 Common to all the world’s philosophies is engagement with the claim that all that exists in the universe is ultimately one, whether in one’s awareness or in actual fact. This course examines how Hindus and Buddhists have articulated this idea, basing the same in detailed analysis of one’s subjective awareness of reality, in an examination of the nature of existence independent of one’s experience of it, and on the basis of scriptural revelation.
Effective Date 09/21/2021 Yoga is practiced by millions of people across the world and comes in an astonishing variety of forms. Historically, yoga has roots in ancient Indian practices of asceticism and meditation. But how are these practices related to yoga as it practiced today? This seminar will trace the history of yoga from its earliest origins to the present. Readings will include both primary sources (in translation) and works of contemporary scholarship.
Effective Date 08/01/2014 The purpose of this course is to study the phenomenon of religious violence in one geographic and cultural context. We will examine the roles of religion and violence in Indian political life from the British period until contemporary times, and through the Indian example, we will explore current questions and problems regarding the relationship between religion and politics.
Effective Date 09/19/2013 This course examines western encounters with India by reading the fiction and travel writing of Europeans, expatriate Indians, and Americans in India. In reading such works, the course will explore the place of India in the European and American literary and cultural imagination.
Effective Date 09/27/2018 This course involves the close reading of selected passages of the Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Students will read the primary sources in translation (from one or both epics), along with relevant secondary scholarly works. An advanced knowledge of Indian religions and/or Hinduism is presumed of students wishing to enroll in this course.
Effective Date 04/27/2017 This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Hinduism
