Religious Studies Certificate
Carolina’s Certificate in Religious Studies is available to degree-seeking graduate students studying in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences at Carolina. This interdisciplinary certificate is designed to provide students studying topics in religion in diverse fields the opportunity to examine and discover the various methodologies that different disciplines contribute to the study of religion, i.e., to broaden their awareness of methodologies and to hone their critique.
Course Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| RELI 700 | Theory and Method in the Study of Religion | 3 |
| Two other courses from the following list: | 6 | |
| CULTURES OF COLONIALISM IN THE AFRICANA WORLD | ||
| Muslim African Cosmopolitanism | ||
| Black Southerners | ||
| Womanist/Black Feminist Thought | ||
| Making Magic | ||
 Science and Society in the Middle East | ||
| Life and Violence | ||
| Observation and Interpretation of Religious Action | ||
| Seminar in the Anthropology of Law | ||
| Seminar on Anthropological Perspectives on Latin America | ||
| The City as Monument H | ||
| Cathedrals, Abbeys, Castles: Gothic Art and Architecture, ca.1130-1500 | ||
| History of the Illuminated Book | ||
| Art of the Aztec Empire | ||
| Northern European Art of the 14th and 15th Centuries | ||
| Art and Archaeology of Achaemenid Persia | ||
| Contemporary African Art | ||
| Roman Sculpture | ||
| Roman Painting | ||
| Diaspora Judaism | ||
| Greek New Testament | ||
| Readings in Medieval Latin Literature | ||
| Melancholia | ||
| Special Topics in Comparative Literature | ||
| Seminar in Middle English Literature | ||
| Seminar in American Literature, 1860-1900 | ||
| Studies in Renaissance Authors | ||
| Studies in Renaissance Literature: Primarily Nondramatic | ||
| Federal Indian Law and Policy | ||
| American Indians and American Law | ||
| Ritual, Festival, and Public Culture | ||
| Traditions in Transition: Jewish Folklore and Ethnography | ||
| Jewish Belonging/s: The Material Culture of Jewish Experience | ||
| Muslim Women in France and the United States | ||
| Philosophers of the Enlightenment | ||
| Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music | ||
| Language, Exile, and Homeland in Zionist Thought and Practice | ||
| The Arab-Jews: Culture, Community, and Coexistence | ||
| The Jewish South: Race, Region, and Religion | ||
| Language Remains: Exploring the German-Jewish Dialogue | ||
| Capstone Course: Themes and Methodologies in Jewish Studies | ||
| Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of the Américas | ||
| Topics in Hispanic Jewish Studies | ||
| Seminar in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture | ||
| The Cult of Saints: Narratives, Materialities, Practices H | ||
| Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology H | ||
| Religion and Science | ||
| Religion and Anthropology H | ||
| Religion in Early America H | ||
| Native and Christian: Indigenous Engagements with Christianity | ||
| Documenting Religion | ||
| Islam and Feminism/Islamic Feminism | ||
| The History of the Bible in Modern Study | ||
| Myths and Epics of the Ancient Near East H | ||
| Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | ||
| Cultural Histories of the New Testament H | ||
| Ethnographic Approaches to Contemporary Religion | ||
| Women, Gender, and Judaism | ||
| Evangelicalism from a Global Perspective H | ||
| Religion, Race, and Inquisition in the Spanish Empire | ||
| Sufism | ||
| The Qur'an as Literature | ||
| Islam and Sexual Diversity | ||
| Religious Conflict and Literature in India | ||
| The Bible and the History of the Self | ||
| Early Jewish History and Literature | ||
| Critical and Comparative Lineages in Religion and Culture | ||
| Theories of Religion and Culture | ||
| Ethnographic Research Methods: Ethnography of Religion and Religious Formations | ||
| Approaches to the Study of Religion in the Americas | ||
| Religion in Colonial Americas | ||
| Religion in Postcolonial Americas | ||
| Approaches to Islamic Studies | ||
| Seminar in Religion and Culture | ||
| Body, Materiality, History | ||
| Science and Society in the Middle East | ||
| Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music | ||
| Persian Sufi Literature | ||
| Beauty and Power in the Classical Indian World | ||
| Performance in South Asia: Contexts and Theories | ||
| Minorities in the Middle East | ||
| Confucianism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance | ||
| Daoism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance | ||
| Greek Architecture | ||
| Egypt after the Pharaohs | ||
| Art and Archaeology of Achaemenid Persia | ||
| Archaeology of Greek Sanctuaries | ||
| Ancient Synagogues | ||
| The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean | ||
| The Archaeology of Early Iron Age Greece and the Aegean | ||
| Muslim Women in France and the United States | ||
| Geographies of Religion | ||
| Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies | ||
| Law, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Environmental Activism in Latin America | ||
| Later Greek Prose | ||
| The Medieval Church | ||
| 9/11 in World History | ||
| Infernal Vernaculars | ||
| Minimum Hours | 9 | |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
Non-Course Certificate Requirements
- Participation & Contribution to the Department - at least two events
- Examples of how a certificate student can participate and contribute to the department:
- attend an event in the RELI McLester lecture series,
- attend a departmental reading group such as the Carolina Seminar in Theory and Religion or Christianity in Antiquity,
- attend a RELI-sponsored event,
- participate in a presentation of original research, such as a McLester panel on departmental research or in tandem the undergraduate honors thesis presentations, or
- attend another program or event with Director approval.
- Examples of how a certificate student can participate and contribute to the department:
