Religious Studies

2026-2027

214 courses

RELIGST 1Religion Around the Globe
RELIGST 103Buddhism and Medicine
RELIGST 105The Art of Exorcisms (JEWISHST 107)
RELIGST 108The Lost Scriptures (JEWISHST 108)
RELIGST 108XEnvironmental Wayfinding: Cultural, Artistic, and Spiritual Approaches to Life on a Changing Planet (EARTHSYS 108, EARTHSYS 208, NATIVEAM 108)
RELIGST 109Alternative Ontologies: Religion in the Pluriverse
RELIGST 10NThe Good Death
RELIGST 110Religion and the Politics of Nature
RELIGST 115Interfaith Peacebuilding and Global Justice
RELIGST 115XEurope in the Middle Ages, 300-1500 (HISTORY 15D, HISTORY 115D)
RELIGST 116Buddhist Philosophy
RELIGST 116XThe Hebrew Bible: Readings in religion and culture (JEWISHST 116)
RELIGST 118XGhosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (ANTHRO 118, PSYCH 118A)
RELIGST 119Religion, Conflict, and Peace
RELIGST 119XGlobal History of Psychedelics: From the Stone Age to Silicon Valley (PSYC 119A, PSYC 219A)
RELIGST 11QBeing Human in an AI World
RELIGST 120Magic, Marvel, and Sinners: Exploring Religion in Popular Culture (AMSTUD 120M)
RELIGST 122Theological Reading Group
RELIGST 122XThe Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Texts
RELIGST 123The Hindu Epics and the Ethics of Dharma (CLASSICS 125)
RELIGST 124The Bhagavad Gita: The Many Lives of a Text
RELIGST 129Milk and Honey, Wine and Blood: Food, Justice, and Ethnic Identity in Jewish Culture (JEWISHST 129A)
RELIGST 12NPerspectives on the Good Life
RELIGST 130Culture Wars: US Religion and Politics Since 1920 (AMSTUD 130, CIVIC 130, POLISCI 130T)
RELIGST 135Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States (AFRICAAM 135A, AMSTUD 135X, CSRE 120, CSRE 135, GLOBAL 137)
RELIGST 136Christian Faith in Dark Times: The Political Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr
RELIGST 137The History of Yoga: Yoga's Roots, Philosophy, and Practice
RELIGST 138Indian Philosophies
RELIGST 141Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AFRICAAM 221, AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126)
RELIGST 141XAncient Greek Religion (CLASSICS 141, CLASSICS 241)
RELIGST 142Life Worth Living
RELIGST 144John Calvin and Christian Faith
RELIGST 145The Gothic and the Supernatural (ENGLISH 145B)
RELIGST 146Religion, Place, and Power
RELIGST 147Building Heaven and Hell (CEE 147, CLASSICS 147R)
RELIGST 149Finding Utopia: New Religious Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries
RELIGST 14NBuddha's Brain and the New Science of Mind
RELIGST 150Texts that Changed the World from the Ancient Middle East (COMPLIT 31, HUMCORE 111, JEWISHST 150)
RELIGST 151Mantras, Meditations, and Spiritual Bodies: Healing in Tantric Traditions
RELIGST 153Buddhist Tantra
RELIGST 155What Makes a "Cult?" Studying Religion on the Margins (AMSTUD 155R)
RELIGST 156The Age of Apocalypse
RELIGST 156XSounds of Islam (MUSIC 186E)
RELIGST 158Spiritualism and the Occult
RELIGST 163Ghosts, Ghouls, and Demons: Religion and the Supernatural
RELIGST 167Reading the Quran
RELIGST 168Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction
RELIGST 16NStop the Steal: January 6 as a case study into American Religion and Politics (AMSTUD 16N)
RELIGST 170DReadings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, JEWISHST 227D)
RELIGST 171Gender(s) and Sexuality in Jewish Culture (FEMGEN 171, JEWISHST 171)
RELIGST 171ABiblical Greek (CLASSICS 6G, JEWISHST 5)
RELIGST 173XLatin 400-1700 CE (CLASSICS 6L, CLASSICS 208L)
RELIGST 174Religious Existentialism
RELIGST 176XThat Mortal God: Deifying the Political in Early Modern Politics (JEWISHST 176L, JEWISHST 276L, PHIL 176L, PHIL 276L)
RELIGST 17NMeditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism
RELIGST 18NWhat is Called Living?
RELIGST 192Practical Training and Internship
RELIGST 196Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
RELIGST 199Individual Work for Undergraduates
RELIGST 19QDoes Religion Divide Us? Legal, Political, and Cultural Perspectives from Across the World
RELIGST 2Is Stanford a Religion?
RELIGST 202Indian Religious History Through its Material Culture and Iconography (RELIGST 302)
RELIGST 203ASouth Asian Islam (RELIGST 303A)
RELIGST 205Silk Road Transformation of Buddhism (RELIGST 305)
RELIGST 205ARituals in Asian Religions (RELIGST 305A)
RELIGST 205XHow to Think About Antisemitism (AMSTUD 305, EDUC 305, JEWISHST 205)
RELIGST 206Thinking Theory Theologically (RELIGST 306)
RELIGST 207On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 307)
RELIGST 208Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 308)
RELIGST 210Translating Religion (RELIGST 310)
RELIGST 210XDoing Religious History (AFRICAAM 200P, HISTORY 200P)
RELIGST 215Death, Power, and Religion (RELIGST 315)
RELIGST 217AThe Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism (JAPAN 217A, JAPAN 317A, RELIGST 317A)
RELIGST 217BMusic and Sound in Buddhism (JAPAN 217B, JAPAN 317B, RELIGST 317B)
RELIGST 218XThe Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe (HISTORY 218, HISTORY 318, RELIGST 318X)
RELIGST 220Political Theology (POLISCI 230, RELIGST 320)
RELIGST 223Advanced Readings in Jewish Mysticism (JEWISHST 223, RELIGST 323)
RELIGST 224Ritual and the Senses in Asian Religions (RELIGST 324)
RELIGST 227Political Theology Revisited (RELIGST 327)
RELIGST 228The Earliest Christians (RELIGST 328)