Religion at Haverford College
PS#CRS#CRTITLE OF COURSEProfessor(s)/Instructor(s)DIV
H108A011.0Vocabularies of Islam
Enrollment limited to 35 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
T.Zadeh
MW 12:30-2:00

HU III
Hlls 108
 
 
H124A011.0Introduction to Christian Thought
Enrollment limited to 30 students. Lottery preference: 20 spaces for Class of '12; then Religion Majors, then others.
D.Dawson
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU III
Stokes 018
 
 
H132A011.0Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Enrollment limited to 30 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
T.Hucks
MW 11:00-12:30

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H203A011.0The Hebrew Bible and its Interpretations
Enrollment limited to 35 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
N.Koltun-Fromm
TTh 10:00-11:30

HU III
Hall 107
 
 
H214A011.0Prophetic Imaginations in the American Tradition
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
NEW COURSE.An examination of prophecy as a form of social criticism in colonial and contemporary America . The course identifies the prophetic tradition as an extension of the American Jeremiad. Particular attention is given to Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King Jr.
T.Johnson
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Chase 101
 
 
H221A011.0Women and Gender in Early Christianity
Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
A.McGuire
TTh 10:00-11:30

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H286A011.0Religion and American Public Life
Cross-listed in Political Science
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
T.Johnson
TTh 11:30-1:00

HU III
Chase 101
 
 
H301A011.0The Letters of Paul in Cultural Context
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
TOPIC: This seminar will focus on a critical reading of the letters of Paul and his interpreters in their respective cultural contexts. Attention will be given to close reading of the Pauline letters and recent scholarly work on the social worlds and imperial contexts of the Pauline communities.
A.McGuire
W 1:30-4:00

HU III
Gest 103
 
 
H303A011.0Material Religion
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
TOPIC: This seminar will focus on the ways in which actors perform, exhibit, embody, and work with things to create religious meaning and activity. We will read methodological approaches to the field, and consider various mediums - written texts, visual displays, music, graphic materials, - to uncover the varied performances of material religion.
K.Koltun-Fromm
M 1:30-4:00

HU III
Gest 103
 
 
H305A011.0Religion and Ethnography: The Ethical Dimensions of Fieldwork
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
T.Hucks
M 1:30-4:00

HU III
Morley Room
 
 
H308A011.0Mystical Literatures of Islam
Cross-listed in Comparative Literature
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Religion Majors.
NEW COURSE.Overview of the literary expressions of Islamic mysticism through the study of poetry, philosophy, hagiographies, and anecdotes. Topics include: unio mystica; symbol and structure; love and the erotic; body / gender; language and experience.
T.Zadeh
T 1:30-4:00

HU III
Link 205
 
 
H360A011.0Image, Icon, Idol
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Lottery preference to Relgion Majors.
TOPIC: An examination of iconicity, idolatry and iconomclasm in Christian thought, via a close reading of Jean-Luc Marion's God without Being in the context of a variety of theological, philosophical, literary critical, and art historical writings on imagery, representation, mimesis, icons and idols.
D.Dawson
W 1:30-4:00

HU III
Wdsd
 
 
H460A021.0Teaching Assistant
T.Hucks


HU III
 
 
 
H480A031.0Independent Study
D.Dawson


HU III
 
 
 
H480A041.0Independent Study
K.Koltun-Fromm


HU
 
 
 
H480A051.0Independent Study
N.Koltun-Fromm


HU