| Title: | Ancient Christianity in Rome |
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| Course Section Number: | REL-260-01 |
| Department: | Religion |
| Description: | This course is dedicated to the study of Early Christianity as it was manifested in one particular place, the deeply-charged and long-standing imperial capital of Rome. This immersion course addresses one central question with multiple off-shoots: How did Christianity take shape in Rome? How did it emerge from, rebel against, and engage with that city's deep past? Before Constantine, what was the experience of early Christians? After Constantine, how did the shape and character of the city (not to mention its inhabitants) change? What did early adherents of Christianity believe, and how were those beliefs negotiated, enhanced, challenged, and made orthodox through visual and material culture, especially religious architecture and its decoration? What was the experience of practitioners of traditional Greco-Roman religion after Christianity became the default religion of the Empire? In other words, our investigation will be about social history, architecture, religious history and theology, and art/iconography. It is about the realia of what people believed, saw, experienced, and did. And the best way to get a sense of those features of ancient life and belief is to visit the key places themselves: the city of Rome and, as a complement to the features of the urban experience that Rome lacks, its port city of Ostia. The immersion component of the course will occur November 17-25, 2023. One course credit. By application only. REL-260-01 = CLA-212-01 |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 23, 2023 |
| End Date: | December 16, 2023 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/24/2023-12/14/2023 Immersion Component Tuesday, Thursday 08:00AM - 09:15AM, Center Hall, Room 300
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| Faculty: | Nelson, Derek |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 16 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 16 |
| Calculated Course Status: | CLOSED |
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