General Catalog 2023-24

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, and 10C, or 11 and 87. Recommended: courses 120, 121. Examination of relationship between literary and religious practices and traditions. Topics may include legacies of monotheisms, theories of sacrifice, sacrament, gift, and mystical traditions, as well as history of allegory and theological approaches to reading. Selected topics may address literary applications of religious categories as treated in cultural anthropology, philosophy, and critical theory. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.