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RELIGST courses at Stanford

126 RELIGST courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

  • RELIGST 1: Religion Around the Globe4 units
  • RELIGST 2: Is Stanford a Religion?4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 3: The Religious Life of Things3-5 units
  • RELIGST 4: What Didn't Make the Bible (CLASSICS 9N, HISTORY 112C, JEWISHST 4)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 5: AI and Religion4 units
  • RELIGST 6N: Religion in Anime and Manga3 units
  • RELIGST 10N: The Good Death3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 11Q: Being Human in an AI World3 units
  • RELIGST 12N: Perspectives on the Good Life3-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 14N: Buddha's Brain and the New Science of Mind3 units
  • RELIGST 17N: Meditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 18N: What is Called Living?3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 23X: Democracy and Disagreement (COMM 3, CSRE 31, HISTORY 3C, PHIL 30, POLISCI 31, PSYCH 31A, PUBLPOL 3, SOC 13)1-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 50: Exploring Buddhism: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 53X: Sustainability and Civilization (BIO 35, HISTORY 35, POLISCI 35)1 unit · 4.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 56: Exploring Chinese Religions4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 62: Exploring Islamic Mysticism4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 86: Exploring the New Testament (CLASSICS 43, HISTORY 111B, JEWISHST 86)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 105: The Art of Exorcisms4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 108: The Lost Scriptures (JEWISHST 108)4 units
  • RELIGST 108X: Environmental Wayfinding: Cultural, Artistic, and Spiritual Approaches to Life on a Changing Planet (EARTHSYS 108, EARTHSYS 208, NATIVEAM 108)3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 116: Buddhist Philosophy4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 118X: Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (ANTHRO 118, PSYCH 118A)5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 119X: Global History of Psychedelics: From the Stone Age to Silicon Valley (PSYC 119A, PSYC 219A)1-3 units
  • RELIGST 120: Magic, Marvel, and Sinners: Exploring Religion in Popular Culture4 units
  • RELIGST 124: The Bhagavad Gita: The Many Lives of a Text4 units
  • RELIGST 129: Milk and Honey, Wine and Blood: Food, Justice, and Ethnic Identity in Jewish Culture (JEWISHST 129A)4 units
  • RELIGST 130: Culture Wars: US Religion and Politics Since 1920 (AMSTUD 130, POLISCI 130T)4 units
  • RELIGST 136: Christian Faith in Dark Times: The Political Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr4 units
  • RELIGST 137: The History of Yoga: Yoga's Roots, Philosophy, and Practice4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 138: Indian Philosophies4 units
  • RELIGST 141: Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AFRICAAM 221, AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 142: Life Worth Living3 units
  • RELIGST 144: John Calvin and Christian Faith5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 145: The Gothic and the Supernatural (ENGLISH 145B)4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 147: Building Heaven and Hell (CEE 147, CLASSICS 147R)4 units
  • RELIGST 149: Finding Utopia: New Religious Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries4 units
  • RELIGST 150: Texts that Changed the World from the Ancient Middle East (COMPLIT 31, HUMCORE 111, JEWISHST 150)3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 151: Mantras, Meditations, and Spiritual Bodies: Healing in Tantric Traditions4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 153: Buddhist Tantra4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 156X: Sounds of Islam (MUSIC 186E)3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 158: Spiritualism and the Occult4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 163: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Demons: Religion and the Supernatural4 units
  • RELIGST 168: Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 170D: Readings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, JEWISHST 227D)1-3 units
  • RELIGST 171: Gender(s) and Sexuality in Jewish Culture4 units
  • RELIGST 171A: Biblical Greek (CLASSICS 6G, JEWISHST 5)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 174: Religious Existentialism4 units
  • RELIGST 176X: That Mortal God: Deifying the Political in Early Modern Politics (JEWISHST 176L, JEWISHST 276L, PHIL 176L, PHIL 276L)4 units
  • RELIGST 196: Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project1-3 units
  • RELIGST 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates1-15 units
  • RELIGST 202: Indian Religious History Through its Material Culture and Iconography (RELIGST 302)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 203A: South Asian Islam (RELIGST 303A)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 205: Silk Road Transformation of Buddhism (RELIGST 305)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 205A: Rituals in Asian Religions (RELIGST 305A)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 206: Thinking Theory Theologically (RELIGST 306)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 207: On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 307)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 208: Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 308)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 217B: Music and Sound in Buddhism (JAPAN 217B, JAPAN 317B, RELIGST 317B)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 218X: The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe (HISTORY 218, HISTORY 318, RELIGST 318X)4-5 units
  • RELIGST 220: Political Theology (POLISCI 230, RELIGST 320)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 224: Ritual and the Senses in Asian Religions (RELIGST 324)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 226: The Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HISTORY 216B, HISTORY 316B, RELIGST 326)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 227: Political Theology Revisited (RELIGST 327)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 231: European Reformations, 1500-1650 (HISTORY 231G, HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 331)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 231X: Learning Religion: How People Acquire Religious Commitments (AMSTUD 231X, EDUC 130, EDUC 231, JEWISHST 291X)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 234: Islam and Material Culture (RELIGST 334)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 14 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 239: Philosophy of/in Religious Studies (RELIGST 339)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 242: Chinese Buddhism (RELIGST 342)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 20 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 243: Early Christianity in the Middle East (HISTORY 284C, HISTORY 384C, RELIGST 343)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 250: Readings in Tibetan Literature (RELIGST 350)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 255: Perspectives on Caste and Religion in South Asia (RELIGST 355)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 261: What Does It Mean to be Secular? (RELIGST 361)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 262: Sex and the Early Church (CLASSICS 262, FEMGEN 262, FEMGEN 362R, RELIGST 362)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 263: The Religions and Cultures of Enslaved People in America (AFRICAAM 263C, AMSTUD 263, RELIGST 363)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 266A: Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Race, Faith, and Kinship (AFRICAAM 266C)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 275: Devotional Religions in South Asia (RELIGST 375)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 276: Visions, Dreams, and Meditations in Buddhism (RELIGST 376)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 280: Reconstructing Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Christian Theology4 units
  • RELIGST 290: Majors' Seminar: Theories of Religion5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 297: Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research3-5 units
  • RELIGST 298: Senior Colloquium4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 302: Indian Religious History Through its Material Culture and Iconography (RELIGST 202)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 303A: South Asian Islam (RELIGST 203A)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 304A: Theories and Methods4 units
  • RELIGST 304B: Theories and Methods4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 305: Silk Road Transformation of Buddhism (RELIGST 205)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 305A: Rituals in Asian Religions (RELIGST 205A)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 306: Thinking Theory Theologically (RELIGST 206)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 307: On the Concept of Islamic History (RELIGST 207)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 308: Women of the Movement (AFRICAAM 208, AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 208)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 314: Seminar in Buddhist Historiography3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 317B: Music and Sound in Buddhism (JAPAN 217B, JAPAN 317B, RELIGST 217B)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 318X: The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe (HISTORY 218, HISTORY 318, RELIGST 218X)4-5 units
  • RELIGST 320: Political Theology (POLISCI 230, RELIGST 220)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 326: The Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HISTORY 216B, HISTORY 316B, RELIGST 226)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 327: Political Theology Revisited (RELIGST 227)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 334: Islam and Material Culture (RELIGST 234)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 14 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 336: Calvin's Theology3-5 units
  • RELIGST 339: Philosophy of/in Religious Studies (RELIGST 239)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 342: Chinese Buddhism (RELIGST 242)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 343: Early Christianity in the Middle East (HISTORY 284C, HISTORY 384C, RELIGST 243)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 350: Readings in Tibetan Literature (RELIGST 250)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 351: Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts3-5 units
  • RELIGST 354: Recent Contributions to Buddhist Studies3-5 units
  • RELIGST 355: Perspectives on Caste and Religion in South Asia (RELIGST 255)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 359A: American Religions in a Global Context: Proseminar1 unit · 5.0/5 rating · 2 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 361: What Does It Mean to be Secular? (RELIGST 261)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 362: Sex and the Early Church (CLASSICS 262, FEMGEN 262, FEMGEN 362R, RELIGST 262)5 units
  • RELIGST 375: Devotional Religions in South Asia (RELIGST 275)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 376: Visions, Dreams, and Meditations in Buddhism (RELIGST 276)3-5 units
  • RELIGST 379: Researching and Writing Religious History3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 382: Research in American Religions1-15 units
  • RELIGST 384: Research in Christian Studies1-15 units
  • RELIGST 385: Research in Buddhist Studies1-15 units
  • RELIGST 386: Research in Islamic Studies1-15 units
  • RELIGST 387: Research in Jewish Studies1-15 units
  • RELIGST 388: Research in Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy1-15 units
  • RELIGST 389: Individual Work for Graduate Students1-15 units
  • RELIGST 390: Advanced Teaching Practicum1 unit
  • RELIGST 391: Teaching Religious Studies4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • RELIGST 392: Paper in the Field1-15 units
  • RELIGST 395: Master of Arts Thesis2-9 units
  • RELIGST 399: Readings in Theories and Methods1-5 units
  • RELIGST 801: TGR Project0 units
  • RELIGST 802: TGR Dissertation0 units

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