|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
An examination of how religious communities, leaders, and scholars respond to contemporary issues such as atheism, colonialism, nationalism, political unrest, secularism and technology. The formation and transformation of religious identities and institutions in contexts of increased cultural diversity and pluralism will also be discussed.
-
3.00 Credits
Focus on interdependence of religion and cultural phenomena: ideology; alienation; formation of world view; understandings of time and space; relation between church and state; faith and science.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship of religion to contemporary popular culture, both in how religion is portrayed (in music, movies, and on television) and how it is replicated (in ritual, myth, and morality).
-
1.00 Credits
Survey of theories, topics, and problems involved in understanding the historically-evolved and complex relationship between western religion and science and their respective truth claims.
-
1.00 Credits
Examination of new approaches (linguistical, philosophical, and cultural) that challenge traditional religious ideas and the role of faith in contemporary world. Emphasis is on intersection of religion and critical theory.
-
3.00 Credits
Focused study of one or more South Asian religious traditions. This course centers on South Asian religions and on topics that may include, but will not be limited to: Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam in Pakistan and India, and Buddhism in Tibet, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
-
3.00 Credits
Focused study on one or more East Asian religious traditions. This course centers on religions and on topics that may include, but will not be limited to: Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Shinto, and new East Asian religious movements. Crosslisted as EAST 244.
-
3.00 Credits
An introduction to the religious traditions of China through study of their origins, basic beliefs, practices and values, historical development, as well as their interaction and involvement with politics, culture, society and each other. Focus on the three major traditions - Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism. Crosslisted as EAST 252.
-
3.00 Credits
An introduction to the religious traditions of Japan through study of their origins, basic beliefs, practices and values, historical development, as well as their interaction and involvement with politics, culture, society and each other. Focus on Shinto and the various forms of Japanese Buddhism. Crosslisted as EAST 253.
-
1.00 Credits
Survey of the great Indian religious epics, focusing on how these stories are retold in new times and places, and how they're recast in new media.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|