WEEKLY COURSE OUTLINE AND ASSIGNMENTS
* RW denotes Religions of the World; except where noted, you are not responsible for the selections at the end of these chapters. All other readings are from the Eastman text.

8/31 Course Introduction & Native American religions
Eastman, Preface & Prologue, Religion in America; Gandhi, "All Religions . . ."
Eastman, pp. 1-2; 487-89; 68-70
Nostrae Aetate
Hopfe & Woodward, Overview, 1-12

9/9
Brown, 520-26
RW, ch 2

9/14 Hinduism
Eastman, Introduction; Rig Veda, Upanishads (excerpts); "Chudala"; Miller pp. 13-15; 22-39; 59-64; 53-58

9/21
Bhagavad-Gita (excerpts); Radhakrishnan Gandhi
pp. 40-52; 16-21; 65-74
RW, ch. 4 & 118f.

9/28 Buddhism Eastman, Introduction to Buddhism, Roar of Awakening; Zimmer; Buddhist Scriptures & Dhammapada (excerpts); Coomaraswamy
pp. 77-105; 110-225

10/4
Buddhaghosa; Rahula; Dalai Lama
pp. 105-9; 116-29
RW, ch. 6

10/13 Zen Buddhism
Eastman, Introduction; .T. Suzuki; Sasaki; Shunryu Suzuki
pp. 131-43; 154-59

10/18 Mid-term exam

10/20 Shinto
Eastman, Introduction; Kitagawa; Norinaga; Reader
pp. 257-59; 264-78
RW, ch. 9

10/25 Confucianism
Eastman, Introduction; Creel; Analacts & Book of Mencius (excerpts); Fingarette
pp. 163-192; 207-212

11/1 Taoism
Eastman, Introduction; Tao Te Ching & Chuang Tzu; Ling Tung-chi
215-17; 226-45
RW, ch. 8

11/8 Judaism
Eastman, Introduction; de Lange; Finkelstein; Schwartz; Fackenheim
pp. 287-299; 318-35
RW, ch. 11

11/15 Islam
Eastman, Introduction; Esposito; Koran (Excerpts); Rahman
pp. 397-421

11/22
Al-Ghazali; al-Faruqi; Nasr
pp. 422-45
RW, ch. 13

11/29 Final conversations
reading TBA

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