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At Richard Bland, I teach the following courses:

PHILOSOPHY 101: INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY 203: INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS

PHILOSOPHY 202: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

RELIGION 2O1: INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION

To discover the courses I am currently teaching, consult the current semester's course schedule on the RBC homepage.

If you are visiting this site & would like to view the nonrestricted areas of a website for one or more of my courses, click on the the Blackboard link above, click "Preview", search for the course name & then enter "guest" for username & "guest" for password.

RBC Film Series
The Film Series consists of films shown during the activity period on (most) Wednesdays, in HSS 122. Often these films will have philosophical, ethical, &/or religious themes, and immediately following each showing we will host a brief discussion. Attendance is always free and everyone is welcome. 

Click here to see the current schedule for the Series

Click here to get to the Webpage for the Film Series.

The RBC Film Club

Rachel Finney and I are the faculty sponsors of the club. Activities include: watching & discussing the films of the RBC Film Series, outings to see current releases, and sponsoring the RBC Student film/video Festival in the Spring.
 

Club members enter the RBC Film Club Blackboard Page here.

If you are not a member, but want to visit the site, click here & enter guest for your username & password.
 

JAPANESE LANGUAGE & ANIME CLUB

I am also the faculty sponsor of the Japanese Language & Anime Club. The club meets Mondays & Wednesday during activity periods to study Japanese, and Fridays to watch anime.

Richard Bland Runners
Want to get in shape? Want someone to run with? We'll help find you a training partner.

Want to race and support local charities. We field teams in local races, like the Monument Avenue 10k in Richmond &

  the Race for the Cure 5k, on Brown's Island.  

Join the TEAM!

Beginning in the Spring 2006, we hope to begin easy group runs on Tuesday evenings - 5:00 - at the RBC track.

Here's a link to the Richmond Road Runners' Website, with: great calendar of local races

Is a hike more your speed? Let's try to set something up. I am a member of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club

Richard Bland College & Petersburg Links

Richard Bland College

RBC Catalogue

RBC Library

RBC Video Search

Blackboard Log-in page

The College of William & Mary

Petersburg Weather
 

Religion Links

The Pluralism Project: An excellent resource site for Religion in Contemporary America

The Pluralism Project's Search Engine for Religious Centers in America

The (Changing) Numbers: population statistics on religious traditions in America

Where are they?: Maps of the distribution of  worship centers of various religious traditions in America

Diana Eck's slides of the changing religious landscape of America

More slide shows of Religion in Contemporary America

'Religion in America' an Introduction to Religion site

Guidelines for visiting a religious site / observing a service

"Voice of Shuttle" - Religious Studies links

An Index to Sacred & Religious Texts online

An online index for Taoism

An online index to translations of the Tao Te Ching

Blakney's translation of the Tao te Ching with his notes

Detailed comments on the Tao te Ching

An online index for translations of Chuang Tzu

A Buddhist Resource Site

Another Buddhist Resource Site

A Lecture on Zen by Alan Watts

The Zen Ox Herding Pictures - a allegory for Spiritual growth

The Gateless Gate - collection of Zen teachings / stories

The Vimalakirti Sutta - a Buddhist scripture for the "average person"

The Journal of Buddhist Ethics - Online

My paper: Dogen's 'Ceaseless Practice'

A short Biography of Meister Eckhart (from my The Meaning of Mystical Life, MS Word format)

Pantheism information & essays

The American Academy of Religion

Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion (For the Academic Year 2002-2003, I served as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSR, working on a project titled "the Moral Mystic" with Dr. Christian Wilberg.

Philosophy Links

An online site for 'Critical Thinking'

TPM Online: The Philosophers' Magazine - Check out the Games on this Site

An EXCELLENT Ethics Website

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Thinkquest's Intro Philosophy Site

"Voice of Shuttle" - Philosophy Links

About.com's Philosophy Site

Academic Info's Philosophy Site

"Philosophy Class"'s Website

A Webpage on the History of Western Philosophy

Epistemelinks: A Web Resource Site for Philosophy

The Window: Resource Site for Philosophy on the Internet

Philosophy in Cyberspace: Web Resource Site

'Philosophy Now' Online Magazine

The American Philosophical Association

Hey, tired of Thinking?:

Here's a link to some haiku which I wrote - warning: I am an amateur

Socrates' Argument Clinic: If you want an engaging philosophical argument avoid this site, but if you want a laugh... :-

A site filled with links to (Intentionally) Funny Philosophy Pages

Examine the Ponderings of Great Philosophers addressing, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"Broken Saints" - An online Fantasy-Spiritual Flash Animated "Movie" - Sundance Film Festival Winner
 

Contacting me:
Mail Address: Richard Bland College / Humanities and Social Sciences / 11301 Johnson Rd. / Petersburg, VA 23805
My office is Humanities and Social Sciences  #102.
My office & voicemail number is (804) 862-6494.
You can email me at: dzelinski@rbc.edu

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