HDS Courses Open to BTI Students for 2012-2013
Harvard Divinity School reserves the right to withdraw or modify courses as appropriate.
The following HDS course offerings are available for cross registration through the Boston Theological Institute (BTI).
Show Projected Course Offerings through 2015
Abraham, Susan
The Last Things: Religious, Theological and Cultural Perspectives in Eschatology | |
Feminist Environmental Philosophy and Theology |
Ahmed, Leila
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective | |
Contemporary Muslim and Diasporic Memoirs and Autobiographies in the West | |
Contemporary Voices in Western Islam |
Austin, Dorothy A.
Clinical Case Studies in Psychology and Religion |
Bazzana, Giovanni Battista
Historical Jesus | |
Papyrology and the New Testament | |
Greek Exegesis of John | |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M.
Transnational Feminism | |
Anthropology of "the Religious" Part I | |
Anthropology of the Religious Part 2: Methods |
Berlin, Chris
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques | |
Clinical Chaplaincy: Interfaith Caregiving Skills and Practice |
Betros, Gemma
Power, Politics, and the Female Religious Life |
Bloomer, Kristin
Altered States: Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Other Dangerous Crossings |
Braude, Ann D.
The Religious History of American Women: Seminar | |
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective |
Campbell, William M.
United Methodist Polity |
Carrasco, Davíd
Apocalypse Now/2012: How the World Ends (or Doesn't) in Human Societies |
Casselberry, Judith
Black Women and Global Pentecostalism |
Cesari, Jocelyne
The Role of Religion in the Growth of American Democracy | |
Religion and Democratization in the Context of the Arab Spring |
Cioffi, Robert Louis
Graeca - Reading of Greek Texts: Seminar |
Click, Emily
Histories, Theologies and Practices of Christianity | |
Administration and Leadership |
Clooney, SJ, Francis X.
God, Hindu and Christian | |
Yoga Sutras in a Comparative Perspective |
Coogan, Michael
Job and the Problem of Suffering |
Cox, Jr., Harvey G.
Modern Spiritual Pioneers and Religious Revolutionaries |
Eck, Diana L.
World Religions Today: Diaspora, Diversity, and Dialogue | |
Gandhi, Then and Now: Seminar | |
The World's Religions in Multicultural America - Case Studies in Religious Pluralism |
Fennema, Sharon R.
Performing the Body: Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Christian Worship | |
Ritual, Culture and Postcolonial Imaginations | |
Curating the Sermon: Preaching and the Arts |
Frediani, Judith A.
Unitarian Universalist Religious Education: Seminar |
Gaston, K. Healan
Protestant-Catholic Relations in America, 1600-2000 | |
Religion and Identity in Modern American History, 1865-2000 | |
The Niebuhr Brothers and Their World |
Giles, Cheryl A.
Spiritual Care and Counseling | |
Spiritual Care and Counseling | |
Advanced Spiritual Counseling: Taking Care of Others, Taking Care of Self | |
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques |
Gnanapragasam, Patrick
Public Religion and Civil Society: Learning from Indian and American Experiences |
Gyatso, Janet
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female | |
The Body and its Moral Cultivation: Buddhist Sources | |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place | |
Tibetan Religious Literature |
Hall, David D.
Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s | |
Religions in North America: An Introduction to the History of Interpretations |
Hallisey, Charles
Introduction to Buddhist Narrative and Story Literature | |
Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies and their Critical Interpretations | |
Moral Anthropology: Buddhist Insights |
Hempton, David N.
The American Evangelical Tradition from Jonathan Edwards to Jerry Falwell | |
Colloquium in American Religious History |
Hollywood, Amy
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality | |
Common Doctor of Theology Seminar |
Huff, Harry
Sacred Music in History and Current Practice | |
The American Spirit in Music |
Ibrahim, Hauwa
Women, Justice, and Shariah |
Jackson, Michael D.
The Shock of the New | |
Poetry and Religion | |
Space and Place: Seminar | |
Ritualization, Play, and Transitional Phenomena |
Johansen, Baber
The Islamic Ritual's Influence on the Legal Reasoning of the Fiqh | |
The Spring of 2011 in the Middle East | |
Does the Fiqh Know a Concept of Natural Law? |
Jungkeit, Steven
Marx and His Readers | |
Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics |
Kane, Ousmane Oumar
Islam in African History | |
Islam, Modernity and Politics |
Kienzle, Beverly M.
Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar | |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
King, Elizabeth Ann
United Church of Christ Polity |
King, Karen L.
Women, Sex, and Gender in Ancient Christianity | |
Sacrifice: Christian Theology, Discourse and Practices in the Landscape of Ancient MediterraneanReligion |
Koester, Helmut
The Apostle Paul: His Letters, His Cities, and His Legacy |
Larsen, Donald S.
Lutheran Confessional Theology |
Levenson, Jon D.
Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature | |
Genesis: Narrative Artistry and Theological Meanings | |
Rapid Reading: Classical Hebrew I | |
Rapid Reading: Classical Hebrew II | |
Joseph and Esther: Seminar | |
The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar |
Machinist, Peter
Law in the World of the Bible | |
History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: From the Renaissance to the Present: Seminar | |
History and Historiography in the Ancient Near East | |
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar |
Madigan, Kevin James
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
McKanan, Daniel
Alternative Spiritualities in the United States | |
Liberal and Liberation Theologies in Dialogue | |
Histories, Theologies and Practices of Christianity | |
Unitarian and Universalist History in the United States |
Monius, Anne E.
Introduction to the Hindu Traditions of India | |
Hinduism Through the Modern Novel | |
Hindu Ethics: Seminar |
Moore, Diane L.
Religion, Democracy and Education |
Murray, Stephen Butler
Baptist Polity, Practice, and History |
Nasrallah, Laura Salah
Prophecy, Ecstasy, and Dreams in Early Christian History | |
Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar | |
Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students | |
New Testament Seminar for Doctoral Dissertations |
Olendzki, Andrew
Buddhist Psychology: Theory and Practice |
Olupona, Jacob
Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa | |
African Religions |
Parsa, Parisa Day
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Partridge, Cameron Elliot
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate | |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year: Incarnation to Pascha |
Patton, Kimberley C.
Emerging Topics in Greek Religion | |
The Deep: Purity, Danger, and Metamorphosis |
Paulsell, Stephanie A.
Virginia Woolf and Religion | |
Introduction to Ministry Studies |
Pearson, Lori Kay
Gender, Authority, and Domination in Modern Theologies and Theories of Religion |
Phillips, Sue
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Potter, Jr., Ralph Benajah
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
Ragab, Ahmed
Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches, and Controversies | |
The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History | |
Bodies and Sexualities in the Medieval Middle East: Medical, Cultural, and Religious Views | |
Crusades, Plagues and Hospitals: Medicine, Religion and Society in the Medieval Mediterranean |
Rivera Rivera, Mayra
Readings in Postmodern Theology | |
Gender, Race, and Transformation Latina Theory | |
Body and Flesh: Christian Metaphors in Contemporary Theory |
Rose, Dudley Corwin
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar | |
Introduction to Ministry Studies |
Saley, Richard
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar | |
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Seminar |
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth
Introduction to the New Testament | |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Siljak, Zilka Spahic
Women, Spirituality, and Peace |
Smith, Daniel Albert
Introduction to Public Preaching |
Smith, Gary E.
Preaching in the Unitarian Universalist and Free Church Traditions: Seminar |
Stang, Charles Marshall
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition | |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition | |
Augustine and His Heretics | |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
Stern, Kaia
Ethics, Punishment and Race | |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
Teeter, David Andrew
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets | |
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings | |
Scriptural Interpretation in Ancient Israel: Inner-Biblical Exegesis | |
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar |
van den Hoek, Annewies
Advanced Greek: Martyrdom | |
Advanced Greek: Writing History | |
Intermediate Greek II |
Willard, Mara
Religion and American Public Life | |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society | |
Christian Perspectives on War and Peace |
Williams, Preston Noah
The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Seminar |

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