This course explores some of Unity’s fundamental Principles as well as the highest form of mind action, prayer. Students will be encouraged to awaken your awareness and understanding of spiritual Truth in order to employ it in your everyday life.
Instructor: Patricia Veenema
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Ancient Greek Religion (udemy)
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Course Description
This course introduces students to its principal gods and heroes, and details how to contact them and gain their goodwill. It explains how to avoid offending the gods, how the gods intervene in human life, how to consult the gods about the future, how to enlist the services of the divine healer, and how to look after one’s dead so that they will be able to enter Hades, what to expect in the afterlife, and much more besides. This religion course contains over 19 lectures and 5 hours of content!
About the Instructor:
Robert S.J. Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate University, where he served 13 years as Chair of the Department of the Classics. He was also Director of the Division of the Humanities. He earned his B.A. in Classics from Manchester University, his M.A. in Classics from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. in Ancient History from University College London.
A former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the George Grote Ancient History Prize, he has educated students and audiences at a variety of levels. In addition to his 25 years teaching Classics at Colgate University, he has taught English and Drama to secondary school students and lectured at universities throughout Britain as well as at the British School of Archaeology in Athens.
He is the author of numerous articles in both academic and popular journals and eleven books capturing details of all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman life, including The Greek Way of Life: From Conception to Old Age; Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion; Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks, and Hannibal. His expertise has been featured in The History Channel’s “The True Story of Troy,” and he has repeatedly served as a consultant for educational film companies. He has also produced two courses for The Great Courses (formerly The Teaching Company), ‘An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean’ and ‘The Other Side of History’ (forthcoming 2012). He is currently writing a book entitled Greek Refugees: An Untold Story.
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El Islam: Una Religión de Paz (udemy)
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Course Description
En este curso, estructurado en 13 breves lecciones, recorremos la historia del Islam, sus principales creencias y su división en sunnis y shi’itas con el objetivo de comprender los fundamentos históricos y teológicos de una de los fenómenos religiosos más influyentes del mundo moderno.
En elzoologicodeyahve.com creemos firmemente en aquella frase de Hans Küng que dice: “No habrá paz entre las naciones, sin paz entre las religiones. No habrá paz entre las religiones sin diálogo entre sus adherentes. No habrá diálogo entre los creyentes sin una investigación detenida de los fundamentos del credo de los demás”.
What am I going to get from this course?
Over 13 lectures and 1.5 hours of content!
Conocer el contexto histórico en que nació el Islam
Conocer quién fue y cómo vivió Mahoma
Comprender la naturaleza del Corán
Conocer los principales mandamientos de la religión del Profeta
Comprender la importancia de la Meca y Jerusalén en el Islam
Comprender el origen de la división entre Sunnis y Shi’itas
Conocer las principales diferencias teológicas entre las dos ramas más importantes del Islam
About the Instructor
Claudia Ruiz Arriola
Fiel al principio heracliteano de “la única constante de la existencia es el cambio”, a la fecha lleva tres reencarnaciones en esta vida:
En la primera estudió Administración y Mercadotecnia para dizque ganarse la vida de manera creativa, pero un año antes de terminar su carrera se topó con Sócrates (el de la Apología de Platón) y se convirtió a la socrática religión de ironía y dudas que aún profesa hoy en día.
En la segunda reencarnación decidió doctorarse en filosofía, estudiando bajo la batuta de Aristóteles (el discípulo de Platón NO el político priísta) e hizo una serie de pininos laborales intentando aplicar las ideas socrático-aristótelicas a la “vida real” (whatever that means) con incursiones de moderado éxito en la academia, la industria y los medios de comunicación.
Ha impartido clases de Humanidades, Ética y Geopolítica en la Universidad Panamericana y el Tec de Monterrey. Por once años fue editorialista del Grupo Reforma y Presidente de la Asociación de Ex-Becarios Brockmann de la American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico.
A mediados del 2008 se enamoró perdidamente de Heidegger (al purito estilo de Hannah Arendt) y comenzó la ardua labor de aprender a pensar “de a deveras” (cuestión en la que confiesa apenas va en Kinder). Ha publicado 6 libros sobre Geopolítica, Historia de las Religiones e Historia de la Filosofía y mantiene el blog www.elzoologicodeyahve.com
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Ancient Israel by Daniel Fleming (New York University)
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Fleming’s ancient Israel is strange, sometimes shocking, diverse, and mostly hidden. It can be approached from archaeology and non-biblical writing as well as from the Bible as its most famous artifact. Fleming is a biblical scholar and student of ancient literature, so this class will lean toward what is written, embracing the Bible as a source. In a broadly chronological framework, we will ask what Fleming hopes to be unfamiliar questions, trying to get you to see things you had not considered before. The course assumes no prior knowledge, and all knowledge is built from the ground up based on “primary evidence,” the actual material from the ancient world – including the Bible.
About Professor Daniel Fleming
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science, New York University
Ph.D. 1990 Harvard; M.Div. 1985, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; B.S. 1979 Stanford.
Course Readings
The Jewish Study Bible (JPS Tanakh translation)
The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Michael D. Coogan editor
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, by Karel van der Toorn
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The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism and Christianity (Harvard University)
This course surveys how the interpretation (and reinterpretation) of these books spawned two rival cultural systems, Judaism and Christianity. The issues addressed are: 1) What are the truth claims of Judaism and Christianity? 2) In the first centuries of our era, how did Jewish biblical interpretation differ from Christian? 3) What differences resulted in “the parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity? 4) How does each culture deal with the biblical passages concerning: circumcision, the food laws, the Sabbath, Passover, the manifestations of the deity (e.g., Logos), the messiah, atonement/redemption, and the concept of Israel as the chosen of God?
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Jews and Christians throughout History (University of Notre Dame)
How did a negative image of Judaism develop within Christianity? In what ways did these unfavorable teachings contribute toward violence against the Jews over the centuries? What is the relationship between Christian anti-Jewish teachings and Anti-Semitism? Is there any corresponding Jewish hostility towards Christians? In what ways have Jewish authors reacted to developments within the Christian tradition?
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Science, Magic and Religion: Antiquity to the Present (University of California, Los Angeles)
This course traces the evolution of these powerful belief systems from their roots in antiquity, gaining appreciation for just how historically entwined these concepts are and why they ultimately diverged under the pressures of modernity.
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Introduction to Religion (Missouri State University)
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This on-demand religious course is provided by Missouri State University, it includes (24) lectures and guest lectures, and it is taught by Professor Lora J. Hobbs.
Professor Lora J. Hobbs is a senior instructor in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her research and professional interests include: women in religions and scholarship of teaching (student motivation; teacher’s role in student engagement, autonomy and competence; student motivation and success as face-to-face time decreases and technology increases)
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Practicing Spirituality with the World’s Religions (Spirituality & Practice)
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In this 40-part e-course we will explore what Brother Wayne Teasdale named “interspirituality,” the sharing of ultimate experiences across traditions. Calling this the adventure of the 21st century, Teasdale observed that, just as a person isn’t truly educated until they know more than one language, “a person is not really fully educated, or indeed ‘religious,’ unless they are intimately aware of more than their own faith and ways of prayer.” We can deepen and enrich our own faith journey by gaining an knowledge of and appreciation for the many forms the spiritual life can take. We may even see ourselves as bees gathering honey from different flowers.
“Practicing Spirituality with the World’s Religions” includes teachings and practices from Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Sufism, Judaism, Taoism, and Native American spirituality. We draw upon the insights of interspirituality pioneers including Huston Smith, Bede Griffiths, Wayne Teasdale, Thomas Merton, and many others. Their vision of a universal commonality underlying all the religions is one we can affirm in our daily lives. The e-course illustrates it by presenting similar spiritual practices from different traditions.
The format of the e-course matches our other Practicing Spirituality programs — 40 lessons delivered via email. Each contains a short passage about the wisdom of the world’s religions as well as a way to practice that thought as you go about your daily activities. A second quote from a pioneer of interspirituality is included for you to reflect upon. Links take you to the reviews of the books where we found the passages.
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InterSpiritual Meditation (Spirituality and Practice)
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InterSpiritual Meditation is a step towards InterSpiritual Wisdom and a foundation for profound peace among peoples of all religions. As an individual contemplative practice, it helps us to cultivate inner peace, wisdom, and compassion that is inclusive of all traditions. As a group process or liturgy, it helps us to create contemplative communities that can include practitioners of many traditions.
This Online Retreat, originally designed to be presented over six weeks, will consist of daily emails covering the seven steps of the InterSpiritual Meditation:
• Motivation
• Gratitude
• Transformation
• Compassion
• Mindfulness
• Meditation
• Dedication
Six recorded audio conference calls will give us opportunities to hear of the experiences of teachers from the Spiritual Paths Institute: Ed Bastian, Kabir and Camille Helminski, Swami Atmarupananda, and Cynthia Bourgeault. A recording of the full guided InterSpiritual Meditation as well as short separate meditations for each of the steps are also included.
Two new books, InterSpiritual Meditation: A Seven-Step Process from the Worlds Spiritual Traditions and Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Reading Drawn from the World’s Spiritual Traditions, are also available for an additional charge or are available on Amazon (see below)
(6 CEHs for Chaplains available.)
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