REL 260 - Religion,Science Fiction and Popular Culture

Institution:

Thiel College

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Description:

Science fiction remains a powerful vehicle for ideas in popular culture and has the highest religious content of any popular genre. The course examines science fiction to uncover understandings of religion in popular culture. By reading best-selling novels, examining films and television shows, and reading scholars' examinations of religious themes in science fiction, students will learn to identify how religious themes are used, manipulated and promulgated in popular culture. Course topics will include the history of science fiction; the role and significance of aliens, apocalypse and utopias, modernist critiques of religion; and postmodern attitudes toward religion. (WIC)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.thiel.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 589-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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