RELS courses
140 courses · University of Pennsylvania · Fall 2026
- RELS 0003 — History, Culture, and Religion in Early India1 section
- RELS 0004 — Myths and Religions of the Ancient World1 section
- RELS 0006 — Hindu Mythology1 section
- RELS 0008 — India: Culture and Society1 section
- RELS 0020 — Religions of the West1 section
- RELS 0040 — Art and Religion1 section
- RELS 0050 — Gender, Sexuality, and Religion1 section
- RELS 0055 — Introduction to Indian Philosophy1 section
- RELS 0080 — Religion and Sports: Sacred Games and the Spirit of Competition1 section
- RELS 0088 — Penitentiaries to PILOTs: Religion and Institutions in Pennsylvania1 section
- RELS 0130 — Gods, Ghosts, and Monsters1 section
- RELS 0215 — The Religion of Ancient Egypt1 section
- RELS 0250 — Jerusalem: Holy City1 section
- RELS 0300 — Gurus, Prophets & Aliens: Understanding New Religious Movements1 section
- RELS 0301 — Introduction to the Bible1 section
- RELS 0305 — Great Books of Judaism1 section
- RELS 0315 — Jewish Literature in the Middle Ages in Translation1 section
- RELS 0325 — Jewish Mysticism1 section
- RELS 0335 — Themes Jewish Tradition1 section
- RELS 0361 — First Year Seminar: Collecting and Collectors (SNF Paideia Program Course)1 section
- RELS 0500 — East Asian Religions1 section
- RELS 0504 — Introduction to the Qur'an1 section
- RELS 0630 — Women in Modern Iranian Literature and Cinema1 section
- RELS 0666 — Satan: History, Poetics, and Politics of the Archenemy1 section
- RELS 0701 — Medieval Road Trip: Reading and Writing with Chaucer1 section
- RELS 0790 — The Religion of Anime1 section
- RELS 0810 — Saints and Devils in Literature and Tradition1 section
- RELS 1010 — Religion and Evolution1 section
- RELS 1020 — Sacred Stuff: Religious Bodies, Places, and Objects1 section
- RELS 1050 — Virtual Religion: Religion in the Digital Age1 section
- RELS 1080 — First Year Seminar - Black Spiritual Journeys: Modern African American1 section
- RELS 1100 — American Jesus1 section
- RELS 1105 — Buddhist Arts of East Asia: Sources, Iconography and Styles1 section
- RELS 1110 — God and Money1 section
- RELS 1112 — Religion and Cinema in India1 section
- RELS 1120 — Religious Ethics and Modern Society1 section
- RELS 1130 — How to Read the Bible1 section
- RELS 1140 — Religion and Storytelling1 section
- RELS 1150 — American Jewish Experience1 section
- RELS 1200 — The Bible in Translation1 section
- RELS 1259 — Ultimate Meanings1 section
- RELS 1271 — Israel: Law, Religion and State1 section
- RELS 1320 — The History of God1 section
- RELS 1350 — Introduction to the New Testament1 section
- RELS 1360 — Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Judaism and Christianity1 section
- RELS 1361 — Spirit and Law1 section
- RELS 1370 — Religion and the Global Future (SNF Paideia Program Course)1 section
- RELS 1400 — The Making of Scripture1 section
- RELS 1430 — Introduction to Islam1 section
- RELS 1440 — From Jesus to Muhammad: History of Early Christianity1 section
- RELS 1520 — What is Taoism?1 section
- RELS 1600 — Jews and Judaism in Antiquity1 section
- RELS 1605 — Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives1 section
- RELS 1610 — Medieval and Early Modern Jewry1 section
- RELS 1640 — Devotion's New Market: Religion, Economics, and the City1 section
- RELS 1710 — Jews in the Modern World1 section
- RELS 1730 — Introduction to Buddhism1 section
- RELS 1800 — Sacred Stuff: Religious Bodies, Places, and Objects1 section
- RELS 1999 — Independent Study1 section
- RELS 2014 — Medieval Literature Seminar: Premodern Animals1 section
- RELS 2040 — Ancient Iranian Empires1 section
- RELS 2070 — Jews, Race and Religion1 section
- RELS 2071 — Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Racism in Contemporary Times1 section
- RELS 2180 — Media and Culture in Contemporary Iran1 section
- RELS 2270 — Queer and Religious in Israel1 section
- RELS 2350 — Eastern Christianities1 section
- RELS 2390 — Death, Disease & Demons in the Medieval World1 section
- RELS 2531 — Religion in Modern China1 section
- RELS 2540 — Violence, Tolerance, Freedom1 section
- RELS 2550 — Media and Religion in South Asia1 section
- RELS 2560 — Existential Despair1 section
- RELS 2710 — The Politics of Shinto1 section
- RELS 2730 — Buddhist Literature1 section
- RELS 2870 — Religion and Society in Africa1 section
- RELS 3099 — Honors Thesis Seminar1 section
- RELS 3100 — Orthodox America (SNF Paideia Program Course)1 section
- RELS 3110 — Religion & Politics in America1 section
- RELS 3170 — “Black Spiritual Journeys: Modern African American Religious Memoir”1 section
- RELS 3203 — Power and Peril: The Paradox of Monarchy among Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Jews1 section
- RELS 3207 — Conversion in Historical Perspective: Religion, Society, and Self1 section
- RELS 3330 — Material Christianities1 section
- RELS 3333 — Love and Sex in Buddhism1 section
- RELS 3425 — Gender, Religion, and China1 section
- RELS 3524 — Daoist Traditions1 section
- RELS 3560 — Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints, and the Contemplative Life1 section
- RELS 3999 — Directed Reading1 section
- RELS 4050 — Religion, Social Justice & Urban Development1 section
- RELS 4080 — Africana Sacred Communities in the U.S.1 section
- RELS 4300 — Rabbinic Writers on Rabbinic Culture1 section
- RELS 4301 — Soulful Black Biographies1 section
- RELS 4560 — Attacking the Talmud: From Antiquity to the Alt-Right1 section
- RELS 4998 — Advanced Research Project1 section
- RELS 4999 — Culminating Experience1 section
- RELS 5000 — Theory and Method in the Study of Religion1 section
- RELS 5010 — Sacred Stuff in Medieval & Early Modern Europe1 section
- RELS 5022 — The Icon1 section
- RELS 5030 — The "Field" of Religious Studies1 section
- RELS 5040 — Secularisms: Critical Secularism Studies1 section
- RELS 5050 — Religion & Cinema1 section
- RELS 5052 — Africana Sacred Communities in the U.S.1 section
- RELS 5090 — Teaching Religion1 section
- RELS 5100 — Civil Religion1 section
- RELS 5101 — Friendship: Ethics, Community, Modernity1 section
- RELS 5150 — Syriac Christianity Past and Present1 section
- RELS 5170 — Topics in American Religion1 section
- RELS 5172 — The Black Freedom Spirit: Readings in African American Religious History II1 section
- RELS 5250 — Cults and New Religious Movements1 section
- RELS 5251 — Chaucer and Langland1 section
- RELS 5300 — Religion, Race, and Sexuality1 section
- RELS 5301 — Soulful Black Biographies1 section
- RELS 5410 — Religion and the Visual Image: Seeing is Believing1 section
- RELS 5440 — Beloved: Islam through its Literature1 section
- RELS 5445 — Islam and Revolution1 section
- RELS 5450 — Sufi Thought and Literature1 section
- RELS 5470 — Topics in the Study of Religion1 section
- RELS 5520 — Affect Theory and Power1 section
- RELS 5570 — An Intellectual History of Pakistan : Religion and politics1 section
- RELS 5600 — Creating Black Sacred Cultures: Readings in African American Religious History1 section
- RELS 5710 — Advanced Topics in Buddhism1 section
- RELS 5860 — History of Islam in South Asia1 section
- RELS 5900 — Religious Nationalisms: A Global Perspective1 section
- RELS 6080 — Worlds of Late Antiquity1 section
- RELS 6100 — Orthodox America1 section
- RELS 6101 — Topics in Medieval Studies: Premodern Animals (c.500-c.1500)1 section
- RELS 6200 — Studies in Medieval Jewish Culture1 section
- RELS 6333 — Love and Sex in Buddhism1 section
- RELS 6510 — Approaches to Islamic Law1 section
- RELS 6560 — Religion in Modern South Asia1 section
- RELS 6632 — Hinduism and Colonial Modernity1 section
- RELS 6710 — The Politics of Shinto1 section
- RELS 7420 — Qur'anic Studies1 section
- RELS 7425 — Gender, Religion, and China1 section
- RELS 7524 — Daoist Traditions1 section
- RELS 7537 — Asian Religions in the Global Imagination1 section
- RELS 7710 — Readings Pali Buddhism1 section
- RELS 7720 — Islam, Gender, and Colonialism1 section
- RELS 7730 — Southeast Asian Manuscript Traditions1 section
- RELS 9900 — Master's Thesis1 section
- RELS 9950 — Dissertation1 section
- RELS 9999 — Independent Study1 section
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