RELS 3717 is also offered in Fall 2024
RELS 3717 is also offered in Fall 2022
RELS 3717 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2020 | RELS 3717 Section 001: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle Ages (67042)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
HIST 3606 Section 001
JWST 3606 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Blegen Hall 250
- Enrollment Status:
Open (3 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- A Pew Research survey of the global religious landscape in 2010 found 2.2 billion Christians (31.5% of the world's population), 1.6 billion Muslims (23.2%), and 14 million Jews (.2%). In this class, we explore how the histories of these religious communities became deeply entangled in an age of diplomacy, trade, jihad, and crusade.
- Class Description:
- A Pew Research survey of the global religious landscape in 2010 found 2.2 billion Christians (31.5% of the world's population), 1.6 billion Muslims (23.2%), and 14 million Jews (.2%). Given the numbers involved, it is no surprise that relations among the three groups are a vital issue in global culture and politics today. Understanding these relations is no easy matter, though, because the long and complex history of each faith is inextricably entangled with the long and complex histories of the other two. In this class, we go back to a crucial period when a lot of this entangling took place: the Middle Ages. Between about 500 and 1500 C.E., contact among Christians, Muslims, and Jews became more frequent, intense, and significant. Some of this contact was overtly confrontational: it was a time of crusade, jihad, and anti-Jewish persecution. More often, though, it was relatively peaceful and even collaborative. Adherents of the three faiths traded with one another, debated issues of sex, marriage, and belief, and engaged in productive intellectual and cultural exchange. In this class, we will explore the full spectrum of inter-religious relations in the medieval period, from the confrontational to the collaborative, with the goal of trying to understand the early history of a set of relationships that exert such a massive global influence today.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
20% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 35% Lecture
10% Film/Video
35% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 50-80 Pages Reading Per Week
6-10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Presentation(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67042/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 October 2014
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