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Understanding Judaism
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1) Foundations of Judaism: history and texts
2) Mishnah, Midrash, and Talmud
3) Medieval Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism
4) Judaism in the modern world |
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Understanding Christianity I
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1) The life and thought of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospels
2) The birth and characteristics of early Christianity
3) How did the Christian canon come into being? |
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Understanding Christianity II
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1) The medieval church: from the origin to the Reformation
2) The East-West Schism
3) The Reformation: its origin, process and the socio-cultural meaning
of denominational split
4) Christianity in the modern world |
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Understanding Islam
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1) Muhammad and the unfolding of Islam
2) The Five Pillars of Islam
3) Sufism
4) Jihad: Islamic ‘Just War’ theory or Terrorism? |
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Understanding Taoism
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1) Laozi and Zhuangzi
2) Religious Taoism
3) Internal Alchemy practice |
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Understanding Confucianism
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1) Historical overview
2) The essential components of Confucian thought: ren 仁, li 禮, junzi君子, tian 天, Wujing 五經, etc
3) The Analects
4) Neo-Confucianism
5) The contemporary situation and influence of Confucianism in China and around the world |
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Understanding Hinduism
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1) Central concepts in Hinduism: dharma, karma, samsara, caste
2) Introduction to Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita
3) Bhakti and the Bhakti Movement
4) The contemporary situation and influence of Hinduism in Indi aand around the world |
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Understanding Buddhism
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1) A life of the Buddha
2) The Buddha’s teaching
3) Therav?da Buddhism and Mah?y?na Buddhism
4) Buddhism in China
5) Buddhism in Korea
6) Tibetan Buddhism
7) Buddhism in the West |
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Understanding Shamanism
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1) The shaman and shamanic initiation
2) Shamanic myths, rituals and symbolisms
3) Shamanism in contemporary Korea |
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Religion and Contemporary Spirituality
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1) The Spiritual But Not Religious phenomenon
2) Thomas Merton: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues
3) Spirituality and Health
4) Religion and Science |
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