REL 494

Fall 2025

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Topics in Religious Thought
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Various topics in religious thought.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated as topics vary.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
76930
Lecture-Discussion
G
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
108 English Building
Rosenblatt, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Modern Judaism
Section Info:
Course Title: Modern Judaism: Religion, Culture, Politics What is the relation of Judaism and the individual Jew to the modern world? Is Judaism a religion, a nationality, an ethnicity, or a combination of these? This course explores various answers to these questions by examining various historical and cultural formations of Jewish identity in Europe, the Americas/Caribbean, Asia, and Africa from the 18th century to the present, and by engaging particular issues, such as Judaism's relation to race, technology, the environment, gender, democracy, colonialism, violence, and disability, among others.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
77451
Lecture-Discussion
MA1
11:00AM -12:50PM
MW
162 Noyes Laboratory
Ali, M
Part of Term:
B
Date Range:
10/20/25-12/10/25
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Medicine and the Sacred
Section Info:
Medicine and the Sacred Course Description This course is a comparative exploration of medical and healing traditions and their religious, spiritual and cultural intersections. Students will gain an understanding the systems of medicine in China, India, and the Middle East, including the histories that inform those traditions. Within the frameworks of Chinese Medicine and its related disciplines, Greco-Islamic Medicine, Ayurveda and Western Medicine, we will discuss some of the following topics: divine healers and medical authority, etiology and pathology, religious pharmacology and drugs, mental health, spiritual states, among others.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
77452
Lecture-Discussion
MA2
11:00AM -12:50PM
MW
162 Noyes Laboratory
Ali, M
Part of Term:
B
Date Range:
10/20/25-12/10/25
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Medicine and the Sacred
Section Info:
Medicine and the Sacred Course Description This course is a comparative exploration of medical and healing traditions and their religious, spiritual and cultural intersections. Students will gain an understanding the systems of medicine in China, India, and the Middle East, including the histories that inform those traditions. Within the frameworks of Chinese Medicine and its related disciplines, Greco-Islamic Medicine, Ayurveda and Western Medicine, we will discuss some of the following topics: divine healers and medical authority, etiology and pathology, religious pharmacology and drugs, mental health, spiritual states, among others.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
76932
Lecture-Discussion
UG
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
108 English Building
Rosenblatt, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Modern Judaism
Section Info:
Course Title: Modern Judaism: Religion, Culture, Politics What is the relation of Judaism and the individual Jew to the modern world? Is Judaism a religion, a nationality, an ethnicity, or a combination of these? This course explores various answers to these questions by examining various historical and cultural formations of Jewish identity in Europe, the Americas/Caribbean, Asia, and Africa from the 18th century to the present, and by engaging particular issues, such as Judaism's relation to race, technology, the environment, gender, democracy, colonialism, violence, and disability, among others.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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