This interdisciplinary course explores various, often conflicting ways of conceiving and shaping reality in the ancient world – religious, scientific,…
This seminar will examine how historians have reconstructed the life, teachings and death of the historical Jesus. We will look…
The course explores the various Indigenous knowledge production, the struggles, and the beliefs throughout Indigenous populations in Mexico. The course…
Jewish life and civilization in Spain have been compared to a drama in which moments of cultural flourishing are mixed…
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. The first scrolls…
In 1905 the sociologist Max Weber famously proclaimed that capitalism has a “spirit.” Beyond just determining how we make money…
This seminar examines the cultural construction of animals in Japanese myth, folklore, and religion. We will discuss various kinds of…
This interdisciplinary course explores various, often conflicting ways of conceiving and shaping reality in the ancient world – religious, scientific,…
In 1905 the sociologist Max Weber famously proclaimed that capitalism has a “spirit.” Beyond just determining how we make money…
Light has figured centrally in human explanations and manipulations of the natural world: from creation narratives, to the Copernican Revolution,…