Religious Studies

2026-2027

96 courses

RLST 10100Introduction to Religious Studies
RLST 10102Religion, Reason, and the State
RLST 11004Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
RLST 11040Encountering the Qur'an: Scripture, History, and Reception
RLST 11500History of Christian Thought V: Modern Religious Thought
RLST 12000Introduction to the New Testament: Texts and Contexts of Interpretation
RLST 13800Introductory Biblical Hebrew I
RLST 13900Introductory Biblical Hebrew II
RLST 14000Introductory Biblical Hebrew III
RLST 14100Introductory Koine Greek I
RLST 14200Introductory Koine Greek II
RLST 20101Ancient Mediterranean Religions I: Israel, Judah, and Judaism
RLST 20102Ancient Mediterranean Religions II: Greece and Early Italy
RLST 20103Ancient Mediterranean Religions III: Christianity and the Roman Empire
RLST 20114Sickness, Death, and Dying in the Ancient World
RLST 20120Eastern Christianity: The First Thousand Years
RLST 20135The Archaeology of Phoenician Religion
RLST 20201Islamicate Civilization I: 600-950
RLST 20202Islamicate Civilization II: 950-1750
RLST 20203Islamicate Civilization III: Empire & Everyday Life in the Modern Middle East
RLST 20232Christianity in the Middle East
RLST 20401Islamic Thought and Literature I
RLST 20402Islamic Thought and Literature II
RLST 20403Islamic Thought & Lit III - Education, Students and Protests in the modern MENA
RLST 20505Pagans and Christians: Greek Background to Early Christianity
RLST 20643The Formative Period in Shi'ite Islam: Readings in the Primary Sources
RLST 21303Christianity and Slavery in America, 1619-1865
RLST 21316Readings in Modern American Religious History
RLST 21503Jewish History 1860 to the Present
RLST 21705The American Jeremiad: Religious Critiques of the American Nation
RLST 21905The Making of the Christian West
RLST 22000Saints and Hagiographies of the Medieval World
RLST 22010Jewish Civilization I: Ancient Beginnings to Medieval Period
RLST 22011Jewish Civilization II: Early Modern Period to 21st Century
RLST 22012Jewish Civilization III: Language, Creation, and Translation in Jewish Thought and Literature
RLST 22022The Gospel According To Mark
RLST 22034The Epistle to the Hebrews and the Epistle of Barnabas
RLST 22315Christian Nonviolence in the US in the 20th Century
RLST 22401Zen Before Zen: Chan Buddhism in China
RLST 22402Japanese Zen Buddhism
RLST 22419From Scopes to Intelligent Design: Creationism and Evolution
RLST 22605Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance through Enlightenment
RLST 22655Themes in the European Reformation(s)
RLST 23107Readings in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
RLST 23112Deconstruction and Religion
RLST 23404Romanticism and Religion
RLST 23609Kierkegaard: Works of Love
RLST 23616Gods in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Love
RLST 23760The Nature of the Good: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
RLST 23905Is Buddhism a Religion?
RLST 24109Claude Lanzmann's Shoah Project
RLST 24117Third Millenium Ethics: New Trends in Living the Good Life
RLST 24302Pragmatism and Religion
RLST 24305Forbidden Knowledge: Theology, Ethics, and Research of Impermissible Risk
RLST 24567Islamic Psychology
RLST 24601Martin and Malcolm: Life and Thought
RLST 24805Foucault, Geneology, Religion
RLST 25330The Gospel of Jesus and Money
RLST 25406Revolution, Freedom, and Equality: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Modernity
RLST 25700Spinoza: From Infinity to Beatitude
RLST 25704Environmental Justice in Chicago
RLST 25807Discourse on Colonialism and Zionism
RLST 25830Zhuangzi: The Butterfly in the Mirror
RLST 25900On the Perfect State
RLST 26004The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
RLST 26112The Body in Chinese Daoism and Buddhism: A Comparative Approach
RLST 26171Religion and Animals
RLST 26300Religion and Medicine
RLST 26325Witnessing the Afterlife: Anthropological and Islamic Approaches to Near Death Experiences (NDE)
RLST 26606Reading Your Neighbor's Scripture: Scriptural Reasoning
RLST 26612Early Christian and Late Ancient Jewish Art
RLST 26661Global Pentecostalism
RLST 26905Gender, Sexuality, and Christianity
RLST 27214Transnational Religious Movements
RLST 27233Religion and Inequality in America
RLST 27305Race, Religion, and Revolution in South Asian America
RLST 27490Art as Buddhism in Ancient India
RLST 27510The Poetry of Wallace Stevens
RLST 27526Diaspora, State, and Nation in Jewish History
RLST 27626Listening in Place: Making Music Documentaries on the South Side