RELS courses
261 courses · Brown University · Fall 2026
- RELS 0010 — Happiness and the Pursuit of the Good Life1 section
- RELS 0011 — Faith and Violence1 section
- RELS 0012 — The Religious Lives of Everyday People1 section
- RELS 0014 — Jesus1 section
- RELS 0015 — Sacred Stories1 section
- RELS 0021 — Inequality in the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 0022 — Introduction to the New Testament1 section
- RELS 0025 — Wealth: Religious Approaches1 section
- RELS 0030 — Sound, Song and Salvation in South Asia1 section
- RELS 0032 — Music and Meditation1 section
- RELS 0034 — Dharma: A History of Classical Indian Civilization1 section
- RELS 0035 — Saints and Mystics of India1 section
- RELS 0036 — Love and War in India1 section
- RELS 0037 — Sensing the Sacred: Sensory Culture in South Asian Religions1 section
- RELS 0040 — Great Contemplative Traditions of Asia1 section
- RELS 0041 — Contemplation, Mysticism and Action in Christianity1 section
- RELS 0045 — Buddhism and Death1 section
- RELS 0050 — Love: The Concept and Practice1 section
- RELS 0052 — Experiencing Powerlessness, Power, and Religion in the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 0055 — Modern Problems of Belief1 section
- RELS 0056 — Spiritual But Not Religious: Making Spirituality in America1 section
- RELS 0058 — Christianity and Culture1 section
- RELS 0060 — Judaic Studies Introductory Cross Listings1 section
- RELS 0060A — Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists in Contemporary Fiction and Memoirs (JUDS 0050A)1 section
- RELS 0060B — Foreigners, Refugees, and the Ethics of Minority (JUDS 0061)1 section
- RELS 0060C — The Bible and Moral Debate (JUDS 0060)1 section
- RELS 0060D — Antisemitism: A History (JUDS 0063)1 section
- RELS 0060E — Angels and Demons Past and Present (JUDS 0064)1 section
- RELS 0060F — Ancient Israelite and Jewish Narrative and Artistic Image (JUDS 0065)1 section
- RELS 0060G — Hope, Despair, and Longing in Jewish Thought (JUDS 0050K)1 section
- RELS 0063 — Antisemitism: A History1 section
- RELS 0065 — On Being Human: Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Self1 section
- RELS 0067 — Divine Drugs: Psychedelics, Religion, and Spirituality1 section
- RELS 0068 — Religion and Torture1 section
- RELS 0072 — Asian Classics1 section
- RELS 0080 — Japanese Aesthetics1 section
- RELS 0082 — Japan's Floating World1 section
- RELS 0085A — Exodus: Freedom in the Modern Black and Jewish Religious Imaginations1 section
- RELS 0085B — Blues People:Topics in African American Religion and Culture1 section
- RELS 0085C — Religion, Spirituality, and Ecology in the West1 section
- RELS 0085D — Religion and Place: An Introduction1 section
- RELS 0085E — Sex Wars: Religion and Gender in the Public Sphere1 section
- RELS 0085F — The Christian Right1 section
- RELS 0086 — Religion and Movement Politics1 section
- RELS 0087 — Religion in America1 section
- RELS 0088 — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam1 section
- RELS 0089 — Jews and Muslims: Their Contacts through the Ages1 section
- RELS 0090A — Women and Gender in Ancient Religions1 section
- RELS 0090B — Earth, Story, and Belonging: Indigenous Ecological Traditions1 section
- RELS 0090E — Faith and Violence1 section
- RELS 0090F — Friendship in the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 0090I — Radical Romantics: Politics, Ecology, and Religion1 section
- RELS 0090J — Death and Afterlife in the Biblical Tradition1 section
- RELS 0090K — Christmas in America1 section
- RELS 0090L — Pilgrimage and Quest1 section
- RELS 0090M — Religion Violence and Media1 section
- RELS 0090N — What is Islam? Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Religious Tradition1 section
- RELS 0095A — Islam from the Ground Up1 section
- RELS 0096 — The Imaginary Lives of Muslims1 section
- RELS 0100 — Buddhist Thought, Practice, and Society1 section
- RELS 0105 — Judaism1 section
- RELS 0110 — Christians1 section
- RELS 0120 — The Classical Chinese Philosophy of Life1 section
- RELS 0140 — Food, Religion and Politics in South Asia1 section
- RELS 0145 — Karma, Rebirth and Liberation: Life and Death in South Asian Religions1 section
- RELS 0150 — Islam Unveiled1 section
- RELS 0195 — Gender in Early Jewish and Christian Narratives1 section
- RELS 0200A — Christianity and Economic Inequality1 section
- RELS 0200B — Ethics and Politics of Intelligibility and Otherness1 section
- RELS 0210A — Religion, Politics, and Culture in America (HIST 0253)1 section
- RELS 0210B — Pilgrimage Art and Architecture in the Middle Ages (HIAA 0432)1 section
- RELS 0240 — Judaism and Christianity in Conflict1 section
- RELS 0260 — Religion Gone Wild: Spirituality and the Environment1 section
- RELS 0265 — Philosophy as Spiritual Practice1 section
- RELS 0290D — Islamic Sexualities1 section
- RELS 0290E — Engaged Buddhism1 section
- RELS 0290H — Defense Against the Dark Arts in the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 0320 — Israelite Religion1 section
- RELS 0323 — Great Jewish Books1 section
- RELS 0325 — How the Bible Became Holy1 section
- RELS 0340 — Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism1 section
- RELS 0405 — Arts of the Sacred and the Demonic in the Ancient Mediterranean1 section
- RELS 0410 — Ancient Christianity: Jesus to Muhammad1 section
- RELS 0415 — Ancient Christian Culture1 section
- RELS 0420 — Sacred Bodies1 section
- RELS 0430 — Sacred Stories1 section
- RELS 0450 — Both Divine and Deficient: Women between Discourse and Practice in East Asian Religious…1 section
- RELS 0500 — The Theory and Practice of Buddhist Meditation1 section
- RELS 0505 — Big Screen Buddha1 section
- RELS 0510 — Confucian Ethics1 section
- RELS 0520 — Tai Chi, Qigong, and Traditions of Energy Cultivation in China1 section
- RELS 0525 — The History and Practice of Yoga in India and Beyond1 section
- RELS 0526 — This Whole World is OM: Mantras in Indian Religions1 section
- RELS 0530 — Laozi and the Daodejing1 section
- RELS 0535 — Self Transformation and Transcendence in Later Daoist Contemplative Traditions1 section
- RELS 0540 — Spirit Writing and Popular Religion in China1 section
- RELS 0545 — Confucianism and Its Critics1 section
- RELS 0550 — Tibetan Buddhism and the West1 section
- RELS 0555 — Zen: An Introduction1 section
- RELS 0560 — Contemplation and Social Action1 section
- RELS 0570 — Science, Religion, and the Search for Happiness in Traditional Asian Thought1 section
- RELS 0580 — Experiencing the Sacred: Embodiment and Aesthetics in South Asian Religions1 section
- RELS 0580A — Anticolonial Perspectives from South Asia (SAST0740)1 section
- RELS 0600A — Islam Today: Religion and Culture in the Modern Middle East and Beyond1 section
- RELS 0600B — Islam in America1 section
- RELS 0600C — Radical Islam (?)1 section
- RELS 0600D — Black & Brown Islam in America1 section
- RELS 0600E — Islamic Modernities: Religion, Culture, and Power1 section
- RELS 0600F — Contestations Within Political Islam1 section
- RELS 0640 — Dying To Be With God: Jihad, Past and Present1 section
- RELS 0700A — Great Jewish Books (JUDS 0681)1 section
- RELS 0700B — The Bible as Literature (JUDS 0830)1 section
- RELS 0700C — Race, Religion, and the Secular (JUDS 0603)1 section
- RELS 0700D — How the Bible became Holy (JUDS 0682)1 section
- RELS 0700E — The Language of Religious Faith (JUDS 0820)1 section
- RELS 0700F — War and Peace in the Hebrew Bible and Its Environment (JUDS 0670)1 section
- RELS 0700G — Gender in Early Jewish and Christian Texts (JUDS 0606)1 section
- RELS 0700H — The Parting of the Ways?: Questioning Jewish/Christian Difference (JUDS 0608)1 section
- RELS 0725 — Psychedelics in Religion, Science, and Healing1 section
- RELS 0750 — Law and Religion1 section
- RELS 0795 — Religion and Morality in Modern Philosophy1 section
- RELS 0800 — Death: Religion, Philosophy, Law1 section
- RELS 0810 — Conservatives vs. Liberals: Religion and Identity in America1 section
- RELS 0815 — Sacred Economy: Religion and Capitalism in the United States1 section
- RELS 0817 — Race, Religion, and the Secular1 section
- RELS 0820 — African American Religious Strategies: Martin and Malcolm1 section
- RELS 0821 — Black Religion and Media in America1 section
- RELS 0825 — Foundational Texts in African American Theology1 section
- RELS 0830 — Religion, Reason, and Ethics from Kant to Nietzsche1 section
- RELS 0835 — Black and Brown Religion in America1 section
- RELS 0840 — Religion and Politics1 section
- RELS 0841 — Far-Right Religious Terrorism1 section
- RELS 0842 — Religion, Sex, Citizenship1 section
- RELS 0843 — How do you Feel? The History of Emotions1 section
- RELS 0845 — Religious Freedom in America1 section
- RELS 0850 — Liberation Theology in the Americas1 section
- RELS 0880D — Fascism: 1933 - Present (UNIV 0701)1 section
- RELS 0915B — The Bhagavad Gita (CLAS 0855)1 section
- RELS 0915C — Mythology of India (CLAS 0850)1 section
- RELS 0915D — Dreaming in the Ancient World (CLAS 0771)1 section
- RELS 0916A — Islam between Theatre and Performance(TAPS 0800K)1 section
- RELS 0916B — Alchemy of Emotions: Middle Eastern Stages, Screens, & Pages (TAPS 0800J)1 section
- RELS 0924 — How Did Bodhidharma Come to the West?1 section
- RELS 1000 — Methods in Religious Studies1 section
- RELS 1050A — Problems in Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (JUDS 1625)1 section
- RELS 1050B — The Political Theology of the "Jewish Question" (JUDS 1614)1 section
- RELS 1050C — Prophets and Priests in Exile: Biblical Literature of the 6th Century BCE (JUDS 1690)1 section
- RELS 1050D — Jewish Magic (JUDS 1801)1 section
- RELS 1050E — Jewish and Christian Identity in the Ancient Period (JUDS 1601)1 section
- RELS 1050F — Digging for the Bible: Science, Religion, and Politics (JUDS 1974)1 section
- RELS 1050G — On the Margins of the Bible: Jewish and Christian Non-Canonical Texts (JUDS 1603)1 section
- RELS 1050H — Problems in Israelite History (JUDS 1635)1 section
- RELS 1050I — The Talmud (JUDS 1630)1 section
- RELS 1105 — Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism1 section
- RELS 1130 — Philo1 section
- RELS 1144 — Adam and Eve in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation1 section
- RELS 1150 — Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls1 section
- RELS 1190 — Religious Japan1 section
- RELS 1195 — Colors in Chinese Religion1 section
- RELS 1300 — Ancient Christianity and the Sensing Body1 section
- RELS 1315 — Religious Authority in an Age of Empire1 section
- RELS 1320 — Social World of the Early Christians1 section
- RELS 1325A — Educating Bodies in Ancient Christianity1 section
- RELS 1325B — Early Christian Asceticism: Rhetorics of Practice1 section
- RELS 1325C — The Virgin Mary in Christian Tradition1 section
- RELS 1325D — Desire and the Sacred1 section
- RELS 1325E — Ecotheology in Ancient Christianity1 section
- RELS 1330A — The Life and Afterlives of the Apostle Paul1 section
- RELS 1340A — Roman Religion (CLAS 1410)1 section
- RELS 1370A — Augustine and Hegel1 section
- RELS 1370B — Philosophy of Mysticism1 section
- RELS 1370C — David Hume and Religion1 section
- RELS 1380A — Money, Media, and Religion1 section
- RELS 1380B — ORGANIZE! Solidarity in Theory and Practice1 section
- RELS 1380C — Law and Religion1 section
- RELS 1380E — Critiques of Religion + Capitalism1 section
- RELS 1385 — Religion and Postmodernism1 section
- RELS 1410 — Directed Readings in Chinese Religious Thought: Zhuangzi1 section
- RELS 1415A — Classical Daoist Thought1 section
- RELS 1420 — The Contemplative Foundations of Classical Daoism1 section
- RELS 1425 — Buddhist Poetry1 section
- RELS 1430 — Buddhist Classics1 section
- RELS 1435 — Buddhism in Motion1 section
- RELS 1440A — Japanese Buddhism1 section
- RELS 1440B — The Archaeology of Japanese Buddhism1 section
- RELS 1441 — Zen Meditation in China, Korea, and Japan1 section
- RELS 1442 — The History, Philosophy, and Practice of Rinzai Zen Buddhism1 section
- RELS 1445 — Sinners and Seers in Japanese Literature1 section
- RELS 1500 — From Moses to Muhammad: Prophets of the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 1510 — Islamic Imaginaries from South Asia1 section
- RELS 1520 — Pilgrimage and Sacred Travel in the Lands of Islam1 section
- RELS 1530A — Methods and Problems in Islamic Studies1 section
- RELS 1530B — Heresy and Orthodoxy in Islamic Thought1 section
- RELS 1530D — Medieval Islamic Sectarianism1 section
- RELS 1530H — Problems in Islamic Studies: Shaking up the Study of the Islamic World1 section
- RELS 1540 — Monks, Mystics and Martyrs: Abrahamic Traditions Compared1 section
- RELS 1600A — Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Study of Antiquity1 section
- RELS 1600B — The Ethics of Community1 section
- RELS 1600C — Angels and Monsters: Queer and Trans Religion1 section
- RELS 1610 — Sacred Sites: Law, Politics, Religion1 section
- RELS 1620 — Disability in Antiquity1 section
- RELS 1700A — The History, Philosophy, and Practice of Rinzai Zen: Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku1 section
- RELS 1705A — Principles and Practices of Contemplative Studies1 section
- RELS 1705B — The Contemplative Science of Compassion1 section
- RELS 1741A — International Law (INTL 1700A)1 section
- RELS 1742A — Great Authors and Works of Italian Renaissance (ITAL 1320)1 section
- RELS 1743A — Gospel Music from the Church to the Streets (MUSC 1927)1 section
- RELS 1744C — When Religion meets Modernity: Tibet Enters the World System (HIST 1978H)1 section
- RELS 1744D — Wonders, clerics, and natives: The Construction of Mesoamerican Christianities. A political…1 section
- RELS 1745D — Theo-Politics: Political Readings of the Hebrew Bible (HMAN 1974P)1 section
- RELS 1745E — Religion from Below (HMAN 1975R)1 section
- RELS 1760 — Religion and Suspicion1 section
- RELS 1830A — Pragmatism, Religion, and Politics1 section
- RELS 1830D — Constructing the Human: Humanness and Animality in the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 1880A — The Gift in Antiquity1 section
- RELS 1990 — Individual Study Project1 section
- RELS 1995 — Senior Capstone Seminar1 section
- RELS 1999 — Thesis Preparation1 section
- RELS 2000 — Theory of Religion1 section
- RELS 2000A — Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Historicizing the Discipline1 section
- RELS 2000B — Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Interpreting Religion1 section
- RELS 2010A — Exegesis at Qumran1 section
- RELS 2010B — 1 and 2 Kings1 section
- RELS 2011 — Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean1 section
- RELS 2050 — Religious Identities in Sasanian Persia1 section
- RELS 2100B — Exegesis at Qumran1 section
- RELS 2100E — Literature of the Early Second Temple Period1 section
- RELS 2100F — Seminar in Biblical Studies: Ugaritic1 section
- RELS 2100G — Early Rabbinic Literature: The Mishnah1 section
- RELS 2101 — The Court Narrative in Ancient Israel1 section
- RELS 2110A — Religion and Romanticism: Religion, Democracy, and the Environmental Imagination1 section
- RELS 2110B — Radical Romanticism: Progressive Democratic, Environmental, and Religious Traditions1 section
- RELS 2110E — Just Home: Place, Belonging, and Justice1 section
- RELS 2160 — Aramaic Readings1 section
- RELS 2200B — Asceticism1 section
- RELS 2200E — Christianizing Antioch1 section
- RELS 2200J — The Virgin Mary in Late Antiquity1 section
- RELS 2200M — Early Christian Hymnography1 section
- RELS 2200Q — Readings in Syriac1 section
- RELS 2300A — Seminar: Early Taoist Thought1 section
- RELS 2300B — Huai-nan Tzu1 section
- RELS 2350A — Tokugawa Religion1 section
- RELS 2350B — Readings in Japanese Religion and Thought1 section
- RELS 2380A — Chinese Buddhist Texts1 section
- RELS 2400A — Orthodoxy and Heresy in Islamic Thought1 section
- RELS 2400B — Historiography of Islam1 section
- RELS 2400C — Sufism Seminar1 section
- RELS 2400L — Topics in Islamic Studies: Methods and Theories1 section
- RELS 2450 — Exchange Scholar Program1 section
- RELS 2460 — Professionalization Seminar1 section
- RELS 2510 — Secularism and Secularity1 section
- RELS 2550D — Project Development Workshop (HMAN 2500)1 section
- RELS 2600D — Pragmatism and Religion1 section
- RELS 2600E — Seminar in Religion and Critical Thought: Hegel1 section
- RELS 2600G — Reason, Tradition and Modernity1 section
- RELS 2600J — Religion, Power, and Practice1 section
- RELS 2600K — Religion and Interpretation1 section
- RELS 2600L — Seminar: Afro-Theism1 section
- RELS 2890 — Preliminary Examination Preparation1 section
- RELS 2910 — Independent Research1 section
- RELS 2990 — Thesis Preparation1 section
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