GHR Quarterly Booklist

NOTE: If you purchase books anywhere other than the AS bookstore, check the ISBN to make sure you have the correct edition.

Summer Quarter 2026

REL 332, World Religions

Holly Folk
CRN: 30345

  • IA Courseware Religion Matters, Prothero, Vitalsource (WW Norton), ISBN: 9991234577851

REL 390, Comparative Mythology

Doug Mangum
CRN: 30684

  • Primal Myths, Barbara C. Sproul, HarperCollins Publishers, IBSN: 9780060675011
  • Myth: A Very Short Introduction, Robert A. Segal, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780198724704
  • The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life, Tok Thompson, Gregory Schrempp, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780190222802

Spring Quarter 2026

HUMA 121, Ancient Mediterranean

Daniel Picus
CRN: 22117

  • Symposium, Robin Waterfield, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780199540198
  • Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Sophus Helle, Yale University Press, IBSN: 9780300268096
  • The Golden Ass, Apuleius, Yale university press, IBSN: 9780300198140
  • The Illiad, Homer, Norton & Company, IBSN: 9781324076148

HUMA 123, Modern Europe

Andrea Gogröf
CRN: 23376

  • Romantic Fairy Tales, Trans: Tully, Penguin Publishing; ISBN: 9780140447323
  • Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche, Knopf Doubleday Publishing; ISBN: 9780394719856
  • Best Short Stories, Guy De Maupassant, Wordsworth Editions; ISBN: 9781853261893
  • Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Bedford/Saint Martins; ISBN: 9781319094836
  • Civilization & Its Discontents Standard ED, Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, Norton & Company; ISBN: 9780393304510

HUMA 273, Art and Society in China and Japan

Scott Pearce

CRN:22298

  • Reading Zen in the Rocks, Francois Berthier, University of Chicago Press, IBSN: 9780226044125
  • Painter's Practice, James Cahill, Columbia University Press, IBSN: 9780231081818
  • Old Taoist, Thomas J. Rimer, Stephen Addiss, Columbia University Press, IBSN: 97802311164572
  • How To Read Chinese Paintings, Maxwell K. Hearn, Yale University Press, IBSN: 9780300141870

HUMA 275, Humanities of Japan

Breann Goosmann

CRN: 23368

  • No Text Required

HUMA 278, Islamic Civilizations

Siyamak Zabihi

CRN: 22962

  • Islam in Historical Perspective, Alexander Knysh, Routledge, IBSN: 9781138193703

HUMA 290, Post-WWII Cinema: New Waves, New Realities

Eddie Troy
CRN: 23677

  • No Text Required

HUMA 302, Methods of Interdisciplinary Study

Michael Slouber

CRN: 21565

  • Prof. Slouber will provide text

HUMA 323, The Romantic Paradox: Love, Life and Death

Andrea Gogröf

CRN: 23678

  • Flowers of Evil & Other Works, Charles Baudelaire, Dover Publications, IBSN: 9780486270920
  • Homo Faber, Max Frisch, Harpercollins Publishers, IBSN: 9780156421355
  • Daisy Miller (Intro: Lodge), Henry James, Penguin Publishing Group, IBSN: 9780141441344
  • Collected Works Vol. 11: Sorrows of Young Werther, Van Goethe, Princeton University Press, 9780691043463
  • Roots of Romanticism, Isiah Berlin, Princeton University Press, IBSN: 9780691156200


HUMA 390, Reel Words: Cinema and Modernist Thought, 1895-1945 

Eddy Troy     CRN: 23378

  • Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, Norton & Company Inc, 9780393919165
  • To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition, Virginia Woolf, Norton & Company Inc, IBSN: 97803934225967

 

REL 231, Intro to the Study of Religion

Doug Mangum
CRN: 21984

  • No Text required

REL 290, Poetry and Spirituality

Tom Moore

CRN: 23369

  • Four quarters, Thomas Elliot, Harpercollins Publishers, IBSN: 9780156332255
  • Tao Te Ching, Gia-Fu Feng, Penguin Publishing Group, IBSN: 9780140441314
  • Sharmbhala Anthology of Womens Spiritual Poetry, Aliki Barnstone, Shambhala Publications, IBSN: 9781570629754
  • Narrow Road to Deep North & Other, ETC, Matsuo Basho, IBSN: 9780140441857

REL 338, Mystical Traditions

Scott Pearce

CRN: 23216

  • Rational Mysticism, John Horgan, Harpercollins Publishers, IBSN: 9780618446636
  • Unveiling of Secrets (Trans: Enrnst), Ruzbihan Baqli, Parvardigar Press, IBSN: 9780964436213
  • Cloud of Unknowing & Other Works, Clifton Wolters, Penguin Publishing Group, IBSN: 9780140447620
  • Cultivating the Empty Field, Taigen Dan Leighton, Tuttle Publishing, IBSN: 9780804832403

REL 375/EAST 375, Buddhism

Ethan Bushelle

CRN: 23215 EAST CRN: 23574

  • Sayings of the Buddha: New Translations From the Pali Nikayas, Rupert Gethin, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780192839251
  • Foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780192892232

REL 490, Contesting Creation

Daniel Picus

CRN: 22301

  • Timaeus and Critias, Waterfield, Plato, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780192807359
  • New Oxford Annot Bible New RSV W/Apocrypha Coll Ed Fully, Oxford University Press, IBSN: 9780190276089
  • The Works and Days Theogany, The Shield of Herakles, Hesiod, University of Michigan Press, IBSN: 9780472081615
  • Hymns on Paradise, St. Ephrem the Syrian, Saint Vladamir Seminary Press, IBSN: 9780881410761

REL 490/ HIST 490, Pilgrimage and Travel in Islam

Jonathan Miran

CRN: 23217 HIST CRN: 23379

  • No Text Required