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• RELG 362: Science, Magic & Religion

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Occultism as a link between science and religion and its central role in Western intellectual and cultural history; the historical development of the science-magic-religion continuum in the Islamo-Christian world from late antiquity to present. FS: 04/01/2015. CL: 2020.
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• RELG 367: Sufism

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  A survey of Islamic mysticism, its foundation in the Quranic revelation doctrines and practices, subsequent development, significance within Islamic civilization, and role in the contemporary world, both Islamic and non-Islamic.
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• RELG 368: Messiahs, Mystics and Rebels

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Representative messianic movements, millenarian visionaries and apocalyptic imaginings in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present, with attention to related developments in the Jewish and Christian traditions over the last two millennia. FS: 04/01/2015. CL: 2020.
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• RELG 369: Islamic Law

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Close reading and discussion of primary texts (scriptural, classical, and modern) and accounts of court cases, focuses on one aspect of Islamic law such as equity, violence, authority, or gender.
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• RELG 372: Religion and Existentialism

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Existentialist thought as adapted by theologians to interpret religious experience and the biblical message. The movement from philosophical protest against essentialism into imaginative description of existence revealed under stress.
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• RELG 373: Literature & Film of Holocaust

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Film, poetry and literature created in response to the Holocaust as the means for a decades long cultural discussion, in European and American societies, of the moral and religious implications of the Holocaust on our self-understandings as religious and moral beings. FS: 10/06/2021.
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• RELG 374: Religion in the South

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Regional faith traditions in Southern historical-cultural context: evangelical piety, denominational tradition, revival, African-American church, Lost Cause idealism.
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• RELG 377: Religion & Literature

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Classic literary works from one or more religious traditions which have shaped and/or expressed the core ethos of a religious tradition or of the more general human concern for the religious and spiritual; and/or general literature (fiction, poetry, plays, essays, non-fiction) which incorporates religious or spiritual references, ideas, symbolism, allusions. FS: 02/04/15. CL: 2020.
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• RELG 381: Jewish Hist:Antiquity to 1500

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  The religious, cultural, social, and political conditions that shaped the Jewish experience in the Near East and Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500.
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• RELG 382: Jewish Hist II:1500 to Present

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Case studies of Jewish history in Europe, America, and the land of Israel, 1500 to the present.
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