GRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS 2025-2026
**all topics courses can be repeated for credit
Fall 2025
REL 200A- Historical Roots of the Study of Religion- Lynna Dhanani- Wednesdays 2:10-5:00 in Sproul 922
RELL 230B- Thematic Topics - Language, Rhetoric, and Performance -Topic: Religion and Translation; Religion in Translation
This course explores the intersection of religion and translation with a focus on the Indian subcontinent. Some topics we will explore--the particularities of translating Indic religious texts, translation as a metaphor for cultural and religious exchange, and colonial legacies and receptions of translated religious texts. We might also discuss how to teach religious texts in translation in the classroom.
The reading list for this course has not been finalized, but will include the following:
Ronit Ricci. Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
Sankar Nair. Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Elaine Fisher. Meeting of Rivers (Forthcoming)
Anna Schultz. , Echoes of Translation: Audibility and Relationality in Bene Israel Women’s Song (Forthcoming)
Thursdays 2:10-5:00 in Sproul 922
Winter 2026
REL 230C- Thematic Topics - Modernity, Science, and Secularism- Gregory Dobbins- Mondays 2:10-5:00, Sproul 922
esoteric” movements as they relate to religious formations leading to theosophy and other more contemporary categories of religion.
Spring 2026
TO BE ANNOUNCED