Brian Karafin

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to the Study of Religion

Introduction to World Religions: Western and Modern

Introduction to World Religions: Primal and Eastern

Religion and Society

Introduction to Judaism

Introduction to Buddhism

Religion and Social Change

Religion and Social Ethics

Tibetan Buddhism

Introduction to Mysticism

Twentieth Century Mysticism

Saints and Ethics

Religion and Post-Colonialism

Religions in America

Religion in the Contemporary United States

Religion in the Middle East Conflict

Religion and Politics at Century's End

Comparative Study of Religion

Issues in Contemporary Judaism

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Dissertation (available from University Microfilms): PROPHETIC DISCOURSE

AND POSTMODERNISM: TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF RELIGION

Review/Article: Charles Scott's THE QUESTION OF ETHICS: NIETZSCHE,

FOUCAULT, HEIDEGGER JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION

SPRING 1992 VOLUME LX NUMBER ONE

Review/ Article: On Socially Engaged Buddhism: Joanna Macy's WORLD AS

LOVER, WORLD AS SELF JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES VOLUME 18

1998

Review/ Article: Buddhism and Feminism: Anne Klein's MEETING THE GREAT

BLISS QUEEN JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES VOLUME 19 1999