A 2020 course by Manasicha Akepiyapornchai at Cornell University “explores the Bhagavadgītā in different aspects to answer the question of how powerful a religious text can be. We will discuss how translations, commentaries, biographies, and scholarly sources shape the Bhagavadgītā and contribute to its popularity in the premodern and contemporary histories.”
A 2021 course by Jeffrey D. Meyers at DePaul University “combines the perspectives of religious studies and peace, justice, and conflict studies to examine forgiveness and reconciliation and their role in conflict resolution and the creation of just and peaceful societies.”
A 2014 course by Mark Fowler at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary focuses on “on the broader
ecology of the ecclesiological forms, governance configurations, membership and orders
as they are expressions of the United Methodist expression of Christian mission.”
A 2014 course by Jonathan Dodrill at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary “explores the roots of the movement in the Anglican Church and the Wesleyan Revival of the 18th century, and the history of the institutional and theological development of American Methodist/Evangelical United Brethren tradition through the beginning of the 21st century.”
A 2014 course by Charles Cosgrove at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary provides “a historical introduction to
the writings of the New Testament. Special attention will be given to the social settings of the
writings in the early church and wider Mediterranean world.”