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The Center also sponsors advanced undergraduate courses or graduate seminars, offered by visiting fellows or Princeton faculty, to correspond with other program activities.

Spring 2008

HIS 493 “Science and Religion: Historical Approaches” taught by D. Graham Burnett, History

Course Description:
This seminar will offer students an opportunity to engage critically, and above all historically, with the relationship between science and religion in the modern (post-1500) world. Has this relationship been uniformly antagonistic? If so, why? If not, what general conditions or specific problems have led to other forms of engagement? We will read a set of recent secondary studies on these questions, as well as primary sources from key episodes of entanglement between theistic institutions (practices, commitments, etc.) and self-consciously scientific modernity.

Sample Reading List:
Brooke, John Hedley , Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
Lindberg, David C. and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. , God and Nature
Finocchiaro, Maurice A., ed. , The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History
Turner, Frank Miller , Between Science and Religion

Spring 2007
“Religion and Immigration”
Albert Raboteau, Religion

Spring 2005
"Moses and Jesus in the Islamic Tradition"
Shaun E. Marmon, Religion

Spring 2004
“Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross: 'Mystical Theology,’ Epistemology and Gender”
Sarah Coakley, Visiting Professor in Christian Thought and Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School

Spring 2004 Undergraduate Seminar
"Religion, Poetry, and Memory in Ancient China"
Martin Kern, East Asian Studies
Offered as part of the 2003-2004 Thematic Project, "Religion, Poetry, and Memory in Ancient China"

Spring 2003 Undergraduate Seminar
"Imagining Eden"
Joanna Magali Picciotto, English
Offered as part of the 2002-2003 Thematic Project, "Seventeenth-Century 'Adamolatry' and Paradisal Return"

Spring 2003 Graduate Seminar
"The Moral Mystic"
Christian Wildberg, Classics, and Daniel Zelinski, Visiting Research Fellow
Offered as part of the 2002-2003 Thematic Project, "The Moral Mystic: Mysticism and Moral Philosophy"

Fall 2002 Undergraduate Seminar
"Aquinas: Theology and Ethics"
Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., Visiting Lecturer in Christian Thought and Practice, and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia

Spring 2002 Graduate Seminar
"Poverty and Charity in the Middle Ages"
Mark R. Cohen, Near Eastern Studies, and Judah Galinsky, Visiting Research Fellow
Offered as part of the 2001-2002 Thematic Project, "Poverty and Charity in Judaism in the Islamic World in the Period of the Cairo Geniza"

Spring 2002 Undergraduate Seminar
"Death and Afterlife in Buddhist Cultures"
Jacqueline I. Stone, Religion, and Bryan J. Cuevas, Visiting Research Fellow
Offered as part of the 2001-2002 Thematic Project, "Death and Dying in Buddhist Cultures"

Spring 2002 Undergraduate Seminar
"From Eros to Sin: Augustine's Transformation of Plato"
James R. Wetzel, Visiting Lecturer in Christian Thought and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate University

Spring 2001 Graduate Seminar
"Darwin and Religion: One Long Argument"
William Howarth, English, and Lisa Sideris, Visiting Research Fellow
Offered as part of the 2000-2001 Thematic Project, "Darwin's Entangled Bank: The Cultural Legacy of Evolution"

Fall 2000 Undergraduate Seminar
"Religion and Cinema"
P. Adams Sitney, Visual Arts, and Jeffrey L. Stout, Religion
Offered as part of the 2000-2001 Thematic Project, "Cinema and Religious Expression"