RELG 218 - Death, Dying And Afterlife

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Montclair State University

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Description:

College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Death, Dying and Afterlife. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to study cross-cultural religious practices and attitudes toward death, dying and the afterlife. The course will cover the grieving process, rituals of death, and various cultural attitudes toward death, including symbolic "deaths" (initiations), and belief in limbo states, soul-survival, ghosts, heaven, hell, and karma and reincarnation. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) - Humanities, Philosphy/Religion. 3 hours lecture.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.montclair.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 655-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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