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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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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Religion and Culture. The interrelation of religion and culture in the formulation of human values and views, life-styles and institutions. Meets Gen Ed 2002 - Humanities, Philosophy or Religion. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) - Humanities, Philosophy/Religion. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Religion in North America. The growth and development of various religious movements-- Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and sectarian minorities-- from colonial times to the present. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Religion and Social Change. The impact of economic, social and political movements on religious belief and the ways in which religion has both furthered and impeded social development. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) - Contemporary Issues. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Wicca and Neopaganism. An examination of the many new religions in Europe and the United states that focus on nature worship and the practice of magic and frequently claim to be recreating ancient, pre-Christian religions. This course will introduce students to the variety of religions co-existing under the Wicca and Neopaganism labels, examine their shared beliefs and practices, and debate the many controversies that arise around them. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Religion in Latin America. A survey of the variety of ways religion, both indigenous and Western, has interacted with culture and society in Latin America. Particular emphasis is given to the pluralism of religious expressions, including popular religion, syncretic religions such as Voodoo and Santeria, different forms of Protestantism, and liberation theology. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Christian History and Thought. A survey of the history of the development of the Christian world-view, the evolution of Christian institutions and doctrines, and the triumphs and failures of Christianity through the period of the Reformation. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Philosophy of Religion. A philosophical examination of religion. It includes the nature and shape of religious experience: criteria for meaning within religious thought and language, metaphysical and epistemological implications of such questions as the nature and existence of God, and the possibility of life after death. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Religion and Psychology. The views of faith and the religious person reached by such major psychological approaches as the Freudian, neo-Freudian, analytic-ego, existential and Jungian. The implications of such psychology for Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant believers and religious thinkers. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Credits: 3.00 Women and Religion. Focuses on women's own experience in religions and the various perspectives of women held by both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The course deals with questions such as the nature of women, patriarchy and religion, and roles of women in religions. Meets the University Writing Requirement for RELS majors. Meets the World Languages and Cultures Requirement - World Cultures. 3 hours lecture.
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