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Consider Making Religious Literacy a Goal of Your Brown Education. Here Religious Studies RELS 0040 Contemplative Traditions of Asia RELS 0055 Modern Problems of Belief RELS 0058 Christianity & Culture RELS 0065 On Being Human: Religious & Philosophical Conceptions of Self RELS 0365 God & Poetry RELS 0365A Introduction to Biblical Hebrew RELS 0365B Readings in Biblical Hebrew RELS 0400 New Testament & the Beginnings of Christianity RELS 0410 Christianity in Late Antiquity RELS 0600 Islam & Modernity RELS 0750 Death & the Afterlife in the Ancient World Consider making religious literacy a goal of RELS 0820 African American Religious Strategies: Martin & your Brown Education. Malcolm RELS 0880E War in Ancient Israel & its Environment RELS 1105 Judaism: History & Religion Here are some ideas… RELS 1365 Catacomb Religion: Ordinary Christianity in the Age of Constantine Africana Studies RELS 1415B Classical Daoist Thought: Context & Consciousness in AFRI 0110C Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement the Zhuangzi AFRI 0820 African American Religious Strategies: Martin & RELS 1440 Themes in Japanese Buddhism Malcolm RELS 1530C Interpreting the Self: Biography in Medieval Arabic Literature RELS 1738 Religion, Music, & Politics, 1750 to the Present American Studies RELS 2000 Theory of Religion AMST 1250B Gravestones & Burying Grounds RELS 2100H Pro-Seminar on the Study of Jews & Judaism in the AMST 1611Z The Century of Immigration Greco-Roman Mediterranean RELS 2110B American Religious Romanticism Anthropology RELS 2200S Grief in Late Antiquity ANTH 0110 Anthropology & Global Social Problems: Movements, RELS 2350A Tokugawa Religion Revisited Mobilities, 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