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Freshman level

Religion & the Public Conversation REL 100

  • ✔️ Religion: A Very Short Intro. by Thomas A. Tweed

Sophomore level

Jews Across the Americas REL 205

  • Like a Bride by Rosa Nissán
  • Like a Mother by Rosa Nissán
  • God of Vengeance by Donald Margulies
  • The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935 by Matthew Baigell
  • Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492–Present by Brodsky & Leibman

The Buddhist World of Thought & Practice REL 225

  • The Experience of Buddhism: Sources & Interpretations by John S. Strong
  • Buddhisms: An Intro. by John S. Strong

Great Books in Buddhism REL 229

  • The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
  • Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
  • Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra by Lopez & Stone
  • The Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön Heruka
  • The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche

Muslims & the Qur’an REL 240

  • The Qur’an
  • A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook
  • An Introduction to Islamic Law by Wael B. B. Hallaq

Judaism, Christianity & Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity REL 244

  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
  • The Qur’an

The New Testament & Christian Origins REL 251

  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Levine & Brettler
  • Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Louth & Staniforth
  • The New Testament: A Historical Intro. to the Early Christian Writings by Ehrman & Méndez

Junior level

Junior Seminar REL 300

  • The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
  • The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz
  • How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others by T.M. Luhrmann
  • The Thing about Religion: An Intro. to the Material Study of Religions by David Morgan
  • Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival & the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood
  • The Politics of Ritual by Molly Farneth
  • Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka Thomas
  • Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation by Liz Bucar
  • Wild Experiment: Feeling Science & Secularism after Darwin by Donovan O. Schaefer

The Difficulty of Being Good: Ethics, War & Dharma in Hindu Epic REL 310

  • Mahābhārata
  • Disorienting Dharma: Ethics & the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata by Emily T. Hudson
  • The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species by Ruth Vanita

Black Women & Spiritual Narrative REL 318

  • Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  • The 12 Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  • The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker <!– 9780143135692 – >
  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Women, Gender & the Body in Islamic Societies REL 328

  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
  • Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

Gods, Poets & Thinkers of Ancient India: Readings in Advanced Sanskrit REL 342

  • Vedic Grammar by A. A. Macdonell
  • Sanskrit Grammar by William Dwight Whitney
  • A Sanskrit English Dictionary by M Monier-Williams
  • Scholastic Sanskrit: A Manual for Students by Tubb & Boose
  • A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language by Jan Gonda

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