Religious Studies 258 - Religious Imagination,Other Realities, and Otherworldly Journeys IM

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Hiram College

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A cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of other realities and otherworldly topologies as imagined and discovered in both our own and other cultures and times. Focusing on the religious imagination in particular, this course introduces students to theories and methods of the phenomenology of religion, and theories of the imagination. The course also emphasizes the approaches taken and the alternative answers given by historians of religion with respect to traditional theories and open questions on consciousness and reality in Western and non-Western philosophy. Questions to be pursued in this course include: How seriously should we take visions of other realities? What is the role of "consciousness"in such vision? What is its relationship to "reality"? What is the relationshipbetween imagination and discovery? How seriously should we take the imagination? What is the relationship between religious imagination and artistic and scientific creativity?

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HIRAM.EDU

Phone Number:

(330) 569-3211

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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