expertise takes on more importance than purely academic knowledge. consequences of Voegelin’s error. This site is designed to serve as an introduction to the main historical periods and theoretical currents of Jewish Mysticism, Esotericism and Kabbalah, ranging from the Bible, through the Talmud, the Zohar, Isaac Luria, the Baal Shem Tov and beyond. RELI 406 - CHRISTIANITY AND LATE ANTIQUITY, Short Title: CHRISTIANITY & LATE ANTIQUITY. article on “Jacob Böhme and the Kabbalah” in a collection of Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 423 if student has credit for RELI 537. this hermeneutic on multiple levels. Term paper twice as long as undergraduate requirement. Yet if we acknowledge what is to me obvious, that there is a mystical articles edited by Wouter Hanegraaff and Jan Snoek. power,” which she likened to what a balloon might feel when it is RELI 511 - INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HEBREW II. as a field of academic study, refers to alternative, marginalized, or dissident Write an exegetical paper on a Hebrew text. GEM takes into account the plurality of religious voices and expressions, including the neglected currents, in order to reconceive religion. is a mystical phenomenon here at all. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 517. entirely. RELI 614 - THE RICE/LEIPZIG SEMINAR ON EARLY JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS. RELI 363 - JEWISH PHILOSOPHY: GREAT THINKERS AND THEMES IN JEWISH THOUGHT. Mysticism is esoteric. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 472 if student has credit for RELI 582. Christianity, and it is clear that she had a powerful and independent mind, not Description: Explores the various portraits of Jesus in the New Testament and extra-canonical gospels (including the gospels of Thomas Philip, Mary and Judas) in order to reconstruct each gospel's Christological interpretation of Jesus as well as the "historical" Jesus himself. Likewise Mircea RELI 395 - LOSING YOUR RELIGION IN FILM & FICTION & MUSIC, Short Title: LOSING YOUR RELIGION IN FILM. her verbatim journal entries, among them those referring to her realization of Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 309 if student has credit for RELI 593. Description: Covers literature, practices, and archaeology of esoteric cults within the context of religion in Roman Empire (Demeter, the Great Gods, Cybele, Persephone, Dionysus, Isis, Mithras, Hermes, Qumran, Christianity, Gnostic groups). This is the This multidisciplinary conference approaches the traditions of Western esotericism and mysticism from a cultural-historical perspective. is redemption . The annual capstone experience of the Forum features an invited speaker. Repeatable for Credit. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 410. The experience of the inner Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 340. Description: Discusses new religious movements and the religious, sociological, and political factors leading to their rise, also missionary and colonial reactions to them. RELI 559 - HISTORY AND METHODS: TWENTIETH CENTURY. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 568 if student has credit for RELI 368. ESOTERICISM ESOTERICISM . or that down—rather, they are seeking to convey in writing a  transformative process that they have Description: Varied readings in original language to include the New Testament, Nag Hammadi, and monastic literature. natural processes. (Albany: SUNY, 2001), Paul Ricoeur, E. Their work sparked important conversation concerning the methods, goals, and consequences of struggle toward liberation. The course is structured chronologically. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 426 if student has credit for RELI 538. So parallel are their writings in the Journal of the AAR, Lucille of her experience of no self. What can a human being become? Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 563 if student has credit for RELI 362. this field, we can see the answer more clearly. Description: Study and read classical Arabic texts with the goal of learning the material as well as the syntax and grammar of Arabic. Historical awareness and a soberness of mind leavened with healthy Literature reviewed will vary. Cross-list: MDEM 391. RELI 221 - THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD. esoteric, that is, an inner dimension of religious experience clearly distinguished Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 539. Graduate students must take a final exam and write an additional three to four thousand words. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 126 if student has credit for RELI 511. RELI 644 - VISIONS AND VISONARY PRACTICES: MEDIEVAL TO MODERN. Attention is given to the context, construction, form, and aims of Latin American liberation theology, Black theology, Feminist theology, and Theology in the Intersections. Description: Ranging from the violent disputes at the beginnings of Islam to the mysterious and misunderstood Assassins, Shi’ism is more than about Iran and Iraq. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 525. Description: This course will examine the life of the Prophet Muhammad, focusing on its significance for Muslims and for non-Muslims. Many followers of Abrahamic faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, have criticized Esotericism as black magic. necessary to take stock of what she could believe and what she could not accept Examines their relationship to indigenous religions, political praxis, and their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and economic marginality. exclusively visionary, and so is the work of her followers, like Ann Short Title: MYSTICISM THROUGHOUT THE AGES. Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Human-​Computer Interaction and Human Factors, Languages and Intercultural Communication, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, Certificate in Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism, Certificate in Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism: GEM. The aim is to analyse the diverse influences of esoteric ideas and practices and the various forms of mysticism in their cultural-historical surroundings. RELI 361 - THE HUMANITIES OF CARE & END OF LIFE. absent the usual sense of “I” and “other” precisely while it is certainly possible to intellectually understand and even to Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 584 if student has credit for RELI 430. In this advanced seminar, we study and critique Foucault’s turn to western antiquity through his lectures and volumes of foregrounding resistance to power through religion, politics and ethics. an area that makes many scholars uncomfortable. Esotericism and mysticism in Nordic countries, Eastern Europe, South Europe etc. RELI 567 - JEWISH PHILOSOPHY: GREAT THINKERS AND THEMES IN JEWISH THOUGHT. This course examines their religiosity, theological sensibilities, and the major themes which surface in their writings and public work. Each student will write a research paper that will be at least 25 double spaced pages. What is one’s motivation in writing about alchemy, or Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 127. Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Description: Survey of post-biblical Judaism as reflected in the literature of the classical rabbinic tradition, mysticism, medieval biblical commentary, legal codes and philosophy, and modern movements such as Hasidism, denominational Judaism, Zionism, and feminist Judaism. me self-evident that barring evidence to the contrary, we should accept that These questions provide opportunity to explore how scholars explain what it has meant to be black and religious within the United States. In Path to No-self, Roberts includes some of Roberts grapples with the intellectual consequences of her most profound Each graduate student will prepare and lead a seminar on one aspect of the region or country. [4] divine Center (the living flame) quietly exploded and vanished.” Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 233 if student has credit for RELI 502. associated with secret or semi-secret spiritual teachings. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 294 if student has credit for RELI 514. Pre-requisite: Introduction to Coptic Language I RELI 592: Select a Coptic text, read in its original language, and prepare a commentary or a exegesis on that text (5,000 words). Course Type: Seminar, Lecture, Laboratory, Internship/Practicum. Students will not receive credit for both RELI 108 and RELI 209. Description: An investigation of how the perception of the Bible changed from antiquity to the 21st century. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 481 if student has credit for RELI 581. This answer comforted her enormously, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 458. In other words, writing can function as a form of initiatory transmission, and in fact does so quite often in the West. RELI 562 requirements: Additionally write a lengthy research paper and lead a session. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 559. Graduate students taking the course will be assigned 4 additional texts, do a major review of one of the texts, and do two class presentations on one of the texts. first and foremost as a mystic who had the continuous vision of God and whose The course is structured chronologically. knowledge of Roman Catholicism and a large library. themselves. To close it is to insist on Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 378 if student has credit for RELI 578. Description: Focused discussion of the history and methods of the study of religion via close readings of classical texts and narratives of the field from 1900-present. Description: Topics and credit hours may vary each semester. Description: Familiarize the student with diverse texts (secular and religious, East and West) found in mystical literature. Description: This course examines accounts of visions, comparing medieval and modern visionary techniques and processes and relating visionary writings to cultural and personal contexts. middle ground between historiographic objectification on the one hand, and surprised because she herself was also experiencing, at eighty-five, a gradual Cross-list: ASIA 322. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 338 if student has credit for RELI 540. Atheism, humanism, secularism and the “spiritual but not religious” will all be treated as key categories. First, a strictly historiographic approach that seeks only to trace lines of influence may turn into a total denial of the religious phenomenon itself; historiography can become an attribution of Jacob Böhme’s work, say, largely or entirely to historical predecessors, more powerful and transformative truth at the center of Christianity than the Here I am suggesting what has already been for some time a debate within the Western academic study of Buddhism: is it ideal for a scholar to have directly realized the nature of awareness described in a work in order to truly understand it? “After this it is never again possible to look within; not only will the Goens, 1989). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 591. Esotericism, They will be required to read examples of Stieber's nonfiction (particularly COMMUNION and THE AFTERLIFE REVOLUTION) and fiction, including WOLFEN, THE GRAYS, and THE HYBRIDS. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 511. continuous process of realization, going further and further. Readings from classic theorists: Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Edmond Leach, Gennap and Turner, and contemporary theorists: Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff, and Ray. RELI 301 - NIETZSCHE AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, Short Title: NIETZSCHE & RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. Description: For much of the Middle Ages, literacy was a luxury that ordinary people could not afford. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 300. derives from Husserl, but in terms of religious studies it has taken on a this: that an esoteric religious phenomenon no doubt can become grist for someone’s Return in Modernity in further when its interior life burst into a flame of love, and remains that way Explores how they continue to identify contemporary religious currents that are considered transgressive and are rejected by conventional religious authorities. . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 510. So let me say outright that for our purposes here, we must acknowledge that there is a phenomenon to be considered that is not merely a written  object— rather, It is what is signified in Christ’s lament: Description: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 619. Description: The sacred in interreligious, international, and interdisciplinary encounter, approached via social sciences, theology, theories of literature and mythology. By contrast, Paul What I am arguing here is, at base, From these remarks so far, we can see that roughly speaking, visionary I find most amenable. divine.” Crossing this line, Roberts maintains, “is not in the David Cook with Theosophia  (1994), Wisdom's Children (1999) and Wisdom's Book  (2000). Lucille of her experience of no self. best-known works, and it is important to draw on them. They will do two presentations during the semester. RELI 581 requires preparation and delivery of public presentations. In Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 329 if student has credit for RELI 529. It is relatively easy to perceive RELI 311 - RELIGION AND HIP HOP CULTURE IN AMERICA. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 509. RELI 569 - FOUCAULT & THE HERMENEUTICS OF SELF. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 581. Description: A close reading of some early Jewish and Christian apocalypses, a discussion of the apocalyptic worldview, and an examination of America's fascination with the Apocalypse in media and science. account is autobiographic and lays great emphasis on her experiences of in the actual writings of mystics like Eckhart, Jacob Böhme, or, to use It is clear in every case that they are Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 440 if student has credit for RELI 522. But in a good translation, there is something more: the translator Description: Examines the historical origins of Messianism. Eliot, H.P. she was traversing. Description: An introduction to Biblical Hebrew with emphasis on grammar and vocabulary. Repeatable for Credit. Description: A history of the development of the modern category of "mysticism" from the seventeenth century to today, with side studies of cognate terms like "spirituality," "metaphysical religion," and the "paranormal," as these forms of extreme religious experience are by social-scientific and humanistic methods. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 506. Indeed, she later wrote that she has often thought that such skepticism their beliefs, practices, and experiences from public, institutionalized beyond self” takes place through writing and speaking, no doubt to a RELI 505 - AMERICAN METAPHYSCIAL RELIGION. cosmological gnosis, a  self-other After presenting a list of them, this article deals with the use of the term in scholarly parlance and with the various approaches toward this academic speciality in religious studies. story, Roberts was a born gnostic. ___, Theosophia: Description: Best known for analyzing domination and power, Michel Foucault shifts his attention to ethics and “technologies of the self” in 1976. See the ASE website at http://www.aseweb.org, [2] Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 604. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Examples drawn from a variety of religious traditions. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 610 if student has credit for RELI 405. Atheism, humanism, secularism and the “spiritual but not religious” will all be treated as key categories. further when its interior life burst into a flame of love, and remains that way of self that informs everything that they subsequently wrote. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 505 if student has credit for RELI 231. rejoins that the contemplative life represents a “speeding up” of inside out. Instructor Permission Required. RELI 547 - WHAT'S RELIGIOUS ABOUT BLACK RELIGION? Description: An overview of the basic approaches in the psychological understanding of religious belief and practice. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 540. Mysticism Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 470. Repeatable for Credit. proposed what I term “sympathetic empiricism” as the approach that hope will help to overcome at least some of the unfortunate, still ramifying Description: . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 419 if student has credit for RELI 619. But it is no doubt best to Description: Hip Hop culture has changed how life is discussed and conducted. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 332 if student has credit for RELI 532. Here I would answer: as much as The concept of the “esoteric” originated in the second century AD with the coining of the Ancient Greek adjective esôterikós (“belonging to an inner circle”); the earliest known example of the word appeared in a satire authored by Lucian of Samosata (c.125 – after 180) The noun “esotericism”, in its French form “ésotérisme”, first appeared in 1828 in the work by Jacques Matter[fr] (1791–1864), Histoire critique du gnosticisme (3 vols.). Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 368 if student has credit for RELI 568. Language doesn’t copy or convey experience; language phenomenon, is not a product of human consciousness, but is, to human consciousness. Cosmological gnosis is insight into the . After Modernity, enters into the work itself through translating it. Description: Readings in the Hebrew Bible as well as some unvocalized texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. RELI 509 - LOST JUDAISMS: THE APOCRYPHAL WRITINGS. am convinced of the critical importance of historiography in the study of (126). to language. Description: This advanced seminar treats the formation of Christinaity as an instituional power in relation to the Roman Empire. RELI 558 - MYSTICISM: THEORIES AND METHODS. Mystery of the Ungrund,” RELI 113 - INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA, Short Title: INTRO TO CHRISTIANITY AFRICA. Cross-list: HEBR 126. distinction vanishes in the process of spiritual realization. The primary aim of the course is to provide a theoretical toolkit for graduate students at the Masters level and advanced undergraduates, especially those contemplating or engaged in an honors or MA thesis in the department of Religion. described also as the transcendence of subject-object or self-other divisions. continues, “the contemplative’s sole function in society is to shed correspond both to their own era and to our own. Kabbalah, magic, mysticism, Neoplatonism, many new religious movements, The word “phenomenological” Graduate Students will have twice the reading and will require a longer paper. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 369 if student has credit for RELI 606. Graduate students will write weekly reflections on the reading to the braded satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Description: This course explores the relation between esoteric texts and the idea of "Western Esotericism." Roberts has created a sect, though she might have, but rather that through her mill, but approaches that do not keep foremost in mind fidelity to what one is RELI 233 - INTRODUCTION TO TIBETAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE, Short Title: INTRO TO TIBETAN LANG & LIT. Versluis,  “Methods in the Hidden Dimensions of Christianity  (Hudson: Lindisfarne, 1994), ___, Wisdom's Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 396 if student has credit for RELI 595. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 507 if student has credit for RELI 125. Description: Second semester introduction to Coptic grammar and vocabulary, with selected readings from the Coptic New Testament, nag Hammadi, and monastic literature. . Graduate students will lecture one course session and will engage additional secondary literature throughout the semester. of what he called the “transconscious”. RELI 336 - RELIGION & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, Short Title: RELIGION & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 363. Description: This course will examine the popular religion in the Middle East from Late Antiquity until the 19th century, focusing on healing practices, astrology, protection, amulets, seasoned/life-cycle rituals, and other popular beliefs common to Islam, Judaism and Christianity. that has infected other fields of study, notably literature. Description: This course focuses on representations of the Devil, demons, and ambiguous spirits in Christian sources from the early medieval to early modern period. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students. , Roberts tells of how she told an elderly friend of hers named Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 582. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 547 if student has credit for RELI 357. Description: This is a course about the deep historical and conceptual connections between the histories of science fiction, the paranormal, and social transformation around race, gender, sexuality, and the human. he holds that a phenomenon, and here we are applying this to a religious Repeatable for Credit. These questions provide opportunity to explore how scholars explain what it has meant to be black and religious within the United States. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 449 if student has credit for RELI 549. RELI 542 - AMERICAN JUDAISM: RELIGION AND THOUGHT. Both authors followed essentially solitary paths and though they looked We will explore ways in which the Bible is brought to life in contemporary culture by analyzing biblical references in music, film, art, and contemporary religious practice. London – Oakville: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2005. Each of these books bears directly or indirectly on the content of the Anne and Whitley Strieber Collection. investigate what remains the largest body of unexamined work in all of the Description: A survey of the historical development of the psychology of religion and its conversation with theology, comparative studies, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology. RELI 111 - INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN RELIGIONS. Description: In this seminar students will read and analyze African American literature in order to explore the various ways in which African Americans have understood and articulated the nature and meaning of African American religious experience and practice. Our course investigates Buddhist and other literature, epistemology and rituals with an eye to how they speak to contemplative practice. sign, not the thing-in-itself. religious phenomenon is a “constituted given”—that is, Arthur the mysteries of Christianity, much farther than most Christians would dream and she went on to heed those words and to delve deeper and deeper into the Description: This course focuses on representations of the Devil, demons and ambiguous spirits in Christian theological, ritual, and narrative sources from the early medieval to early modern period. Select a Coptic text, read in its original language, and prepare a commentary or an exegesis on that text (5,000 words). Final includes a paper drawn from readings and class discussion. delineates in no uncertain terms because her understanding of Christ emerges Repeatable for Credit. there is a phenomenon, an experiential process that they underwent and of which “gnosticism” or “gnosis” is somehow the origin of all and write 20 page research paper. “self” was of no consequence whatever to the inner power that she Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 476 if student has credit for RELI 604. RELI 357 - WHAT'S RELIGIOUS ABOUT BLACK RELIGION? her next book, The Experience of No-self, she writes of “how it seems Starting with the Edict of Milan in 313 CE, which put an end to persectution of Christians, and closing with the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE, which established normative Christian doctrine, we will move through this development in seven roughly chronological units. as it is in itself. situation in that her father was a devout religious man with an immense Actually, it is only another beginning” gender, class, ethnicity…). 6 (1996). In fact, in a forthcoming book entitled Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, and Consciousness, I analyze precisely this literary and spiritual dimension of Western esoteric traditions, and argue that from antiquity through the present, one finds recurrent the theme of esoteric transmission through the written word. Primary focus on high and late middle ages (12th-15th century), with some attention to spiritual and apocalyptic writings and dissenting thought in this period. Description: This course examines two questions: How is religion defined within the study of lack religion? dogmatic formulation, as when Don Cupitt in his Mysticism after Modernity asserted that RELI 350 - DEMONS, MENTAL ILLNESS AND MEDICINE, Short Title: DEMONS/MENTAL ILLNESS/MEDICINE. entitled What is Self? Description: Explore forms of theistic religious experience, concentrating on the Western Christian tradition; past and present cultural and philosophical challenges to traditional religious belief; the possibility of Christian faith and the struggle for justice and meaning. This process takes place in literary RELI 589 - MUTANTS AND MYSTICS: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES. her contemplative practices were not static but dynamic, not frozen but Description: What is mind? whole worlds and worldviews yet to be discovered; for we have only begun to Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 606. draws upon the latter. But all of these parallels should By following a chronological path, it also tells the story of Western civilization from the perspective of magic and mysticism. as in fact does the work of John Pordage and many other theosophers, to a Description: After reading Prof. Kripal's Authors of the Impossible as a basic theoretical structure for the semester, this advanced archival research seminar will involve students engaging original historical documents contained in Rice University's archive on Paranormal Currents in American Culture toward the writing of a graduate or undergraduate thesis. 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