This tutorial will focus on the translation of Chinese Buddhist texts into English. Texts will be drawn from a variety of time periods, traditions, and genres. Students will gain familiarity with Buddhist Chinese, and the themes and conventions of Buddhist texts.

Tutorial 2 in sequence of 3. Mendelssohn's book Jerusalem, or on Religious Power (1783), the center of our discussion and a response to Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke, is both a theory of government & a novel interpretation of Judaism, but also a program of enlightenment and modernization that has to be seen in the context of Jewish emancipation in the 18th century. The course introduces texts by Kant, Lessing, Herder, Friedlander, & Schleiermacher.

This graduate course is a sequence of three independent tutorials on theopolitical thought in Modern Judaism: I. Spinoza, II. Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment, III. Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig. Each tutorial lasts one semester and can be taken outside the sequence. The focus of the course lies on the alliance and confrontation of religion and politics in Modern Jewish thought and its immediate intellectual historical context.

This tutorial will examine the making of gender in Buddhist practice across Asia. We will interweave discussions in three regions of Asia: We will read historical texts on men, women, and Pa¿¿aka from South Asia; women as patrons of Buddhist art in East Asia; and contemporary ethnographic accounts of gender and gendered Buddhist movements in Southeast Asia

This tutorial examines Black Religious Studies and Black Studies scholarship that utilizes apocalyptic ideas to analyze Black religion, thought, politics, culture, and metaphysics.

This tutorial examines icon and their position in Christian practice and theology, with an emphasis on Eastern Christian traditions (Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East). The tutorial will address the theology of icons, the iconoclasm controversy, the spiritual practice of creating icons, and the use of icons in prayer and worship.

Students learn to analyze and interpret ancient rabbinic texts (c. 200-600 CE) in order to discern theological commitments and ethical instructions. The task is complicated by the fact that rabbinic texts are neither theological treatises nor ethical manuals. They are composed as biblical commentary and as codes, commentary and argumentation on legal topics.

This tutorial investigates the ethical dimensions of colonialism, neocolonialism, and resistance in Latin America. Through foundational and contemporary sources -- including Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, and feminist voices -- students will analyze ethical frameworks that critique violence and extractivism, and explore concepts of healing, restitution, and decolonial thought.

This individualized graduate tutorial provides an introduction to the relationship between Religion and Poetry across a number of traditions, exploring the concept of "poetic knowledge" and the relationship between poetry and spiritual realization.

Research on problems leading to a master's thesis.