Autumn 2022

Spanish

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Spanish SPAN 0010 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Spanish Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

Tuition in Spanish can be arranged to accommodate a wide range of needs and interests. For example, a stress can be laid on reading or conversational Spanish depending on what is required.

Note that modern languages are offered only at intermediate and advanced levels, not for beginners or near-beginners. Use the same course code for both levels, you will be asked to clarify your linguistic skills during the admissions process.

SOAN Special Topic

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SOAN Special Topic SOAN 0700 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Sociology/Anthropology Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

It is sometimes possible to arrange teaching in Anthropology and/or Sociology beyond the tutorials listed. This provides the opportunity to explore a particular subject in depth, through one-to-one tutorials and writing weekly essays.

This will usually be of interest to students who have already taken classes in Anthropology and/or Sociology, and have a specific interest that they wish to pursue, and/or a specific requirement that they need to fulfil.

Please note that this is subject to agreement by both the programme and the applicant’s home institution.

Applicants interested in this possibility should contact the Senior Tutor directly.

Russian

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Russian RU 0010 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Russian Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

Tuition in Russian can be arranged to accommodate a wide range of needs and interests. For example, a stress can be laid on academic or conversational Russian depending on what is required.

Religion Special Topic

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Religion Special Topic RELI 0700 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

It is often possible to arrange teaching in Religion beyond the tutorials listed. This provides the opportunity to explore a subject in depth, through one-to-one tutorials and writing weekly essays.

This will usually be of interest to students who have already taken classes in Religion, and have a specific interest that they wish to pursue, and/or a specific requirement that they need to fulfil.

Please note that this is subject to agreement by both the programme and the applicant’s home institution. Applicants interested in this possibility should contact the Senior Tutor directly.

Modern Catholic Thought

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Modern Catholic Thought RELI 0610 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

This course introduces students to the development of modern Catholic Thought from the period after the First Vatican Council (1870) to the present day. Students will look at the different ways in which Catholic Thought has engaged with the rise of modernity/post-modernity and with the changing religious, political, social and scientific landscape. We will focus on some of the most influential documents produced by the Church’s magisterium in this period and at the contributions of some of the major figures in Catholic theology, such as de Lubac, Rahner, Von Balthasar and Küng. We shall also look at the development of feminist, political and other theologies.

Set texts:

The Documents of the Second Vatican Council: Lumen Gentium

Papal encyclicals: Rerum novarum, Pascendi dominici gregis, Humani generis, Fides et Ratio

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love alone: The way of revelation

Yves Congar, True and False Reform in the Church

Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Elizabeth Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse

Hans Küng, ‘What is an ecumenical council?’ in The Living Church

Henri de Lubac, The Mystery of the Supernatural; Catholicism

Karl Rahner, The Trinity

Edward Schillebeeckx, Jesus: An experiment in Christology

Sample topics:

1.   Pius X and the Modernist crisis

2.   Nouvelle Theologie and the Humani generis controversy (de Lubac, Pius XII)

3.   Rethinking Catholic doctrine: God as Trinity in modern Catholic thought (Rahner)

4.   Rethinking Catholic doctrine: The Divinity and Humanity of Christ in modern Catholic thought (Schillebeeckx)

5.   Rethinking Catholic doctrine: The Church in modern Catholic thought (Second Vatican Council, Congar, Küng)

6.   Faith, reason and the rise of modern science (John Paul II)

7.   The place of feminism and post-modernism in modern Catholic thought (Johnson)

8.   Catholic Social teaching from Rerum novarum to liberation theology (Leo XIII, Gutiérrez)

Christianity and Science

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Christianity and Science RELI 0600 / HIST 0600 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials History Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

This course examines relations between Christianity and the sciences in the western world, from the seventeenth century to the present. Christianity and science have often been presented as mutually hostile or incommensurable entities. However, a more nuanced and scholarly approach – drawing on readings in science, history and theology – reveals complexities that go beyond adversarial over-simplifications. Key scientific figures such as Galileo, Newton and Darwin cannot be understood independently of their Christian context, while Christian thinkers have responded creatively (as well as, at times, defensively) to the challenges of modern science.

Introduction to Buddhism

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Introduction to Buddhism RELI 0300 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

This course provides students with a solid foundation in early Buddhist thought, covering the core teachings of the historical Buddha. The course begins with a consideration of the social and religious milieu of fifth century BCE India, against which such teachings as (for example) no-self and non-violence are properly contextualised and understood. Students will also gain a sense of the diversity of traditions within Buddhism and a sense of the enormity of the Buddhist canonical literature. In addition to the central teachings in metaphysics, this course explores the soteriological underpinnings of Buddhist teaching and gives students an opportunity to explore issues in moral philosophy from an alternative point of view.

Sample Syllabus:

The theory of no-self (an?tta): its context, coherence and purpose.
Karma and Rebirth: literalistic vs. metaphorical interpretations.
Causes and Conditions in early Buddhism: the pervasiveness of change and the existential angst it engenders.
Soteriology: competing conceptions of nirv??a.
Meditational Practices: the objective, methods and types of meditation (with a focus on early Buddhism).
The community of monks and nuns: the sa?gha as an institution, its formation and its rules.
Canonical literature: the P?li canon and the concept of ‘word of the Buddha’ (buddhavacana).
Ahi?s? and Karu??: non-violence and compassion as the guiding principles of Buddhist ethics.

English Reformation

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English Reformation RELI 0220 / HIST 0220 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials History Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

Although far from isolated from the revolutionary currents of religious thought and practice which shook contemporary Europe, the English Reformation followed a distinctive course in which the needs and desires of successive rulers were a crucial factor. Yet neither King Henry VIII, nor any of his three children who succeeded him, had things entirely their own way, and English religious life was also moulded from below. As well as studying contemporary theological and other texts, students in this course will explore political and social ramifications of religious change with the aid of flourishing modern scholarship.

Sample Syllabus

The Late Medieval Church in England
The King’s Great Matter: Henry VIII’s Reformation
Protestant Reformation under Edward VI
An English Counter-Reformation?
The Elizabethan Settlement
Popular Religion in Reformation England
Reforming Art
The Reformation of Literature

Introductory Reading

Marshall, P., Reformation England, 1480–1642. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2^nd edn, 2012
Duffy, E., The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400-c.1580. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2^nd edn, 2005
Haigh, C., English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993
MacCulloch, D., The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2^nd edn, 2001
Duffy, E. et al. (eds), The Church of Mary Tudor. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2006
King, J.N. (ed.), Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004

Classical Islam

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Classical Islam RELI 0160 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

This tutorial provides an overview of the thought and practice of classical Islam, from the seventh century through to the end of the medieval era. Key topics include the Qu’ran, hadiths, law, philosophy and theology, as well as ritual and other elements of practice. Readings for the tutorial include Arabic texts in English translation, and works of modern scholarship.

Sample reading:

Alan Jones (trans.), The Qu’ran (Gibbs Memorial Trust 2007)

N. Calder, J. Mojaddedi & J. Rippin (eds.), Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (Routledge 2003)

F.E. Peters (ed.), A Reader on Classical Islam (Princeton UP 1994)

Abdullah Saeed, Islamic Thought: An Introduction (Routledge 2006)

Tim Winter (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (Cambridge University Press 2008)

Catholic Reformation

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Catholic Reformation RELI 0140 / HIST 0140 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials History Religion Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

This course examines Catholic efforts to reform the Church that pre-dated the Reformation and the Council of Trent, challenging the pervasive narrative of the ‘Counter Reformation’ that views these efforts as purely reactionary to Protestantism. New devotional practices, varied approaches to the visual arts and music, and new articulations of doctrine meant that this period was one of the most dynamic, yet contested in the history of the Church. Spanning from the late 1400s to the end of the sixteenth-century, you will be introduced to debates on religious reform spearheaded by individuals including Savonarola; humanists such as Thomas More and Erasmus of Rotterdam; prominent ecclesiastics such as Gasparo Contarini; as well as the laity (women as well as men), who played a vital role in instigating reform.

Reforming the Church before Luther
Erasmus, More and Catholic Humanism
The Spirituali
Convening the Council of Trent
Instigating Reform in the late Sixteenth Century
New Religious Orders
A New Aesthetic? Art, Architecture and Music

Introductory Reading

Laven, M. (et al.), eds, The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
Mullet, M.A., The Catholic Reformation. Abingdon: Routledge, 1999
Hsia, R. Po-chia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd edn, 2005
O’Malley, J.W., Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2^nd edn, 2002
Luebke, D.M. (ed.), The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999
C. Lindberg (ed.), The European Reformations Sourcebook. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000