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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The Comparative Religion II course is designed to build upon students religious? and spiritual literacy and foundational knowledge of the world's major religions that they were introduced to in Comparative Religion I. The Course will move beyond the old paradigm of a comparative approach and engage in the literature on religious pluralism and praxis. The course will expand students? understanding of the major religions and spiritual traditions, focusing on the American landscape. Moreover, students will be exposed to a critical examination of the world's major religious and spiritual traditions as they have taken shape in America. This course will provide students with the tools to critically analyze the major religious and spiritual traditions and their attendant challenges as they attempt to apply their beliefs and practices in the American context. The course will chronicle the historical development of these religious and spiritual traditions, looking for differences and similarities, which inform our understanding of their respective theological teachings and practices and the way in which they grapple with notions of identity.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a limited overview of anthropological theories related to the study of religion. It focuses upon understanding religious practice from a cross-cultural perspective, with attention to myths, ritual and symbolism. Within that purview, the course will examine the uneasy relationship of ethnocentrism to religious diversity. This investigation proposes to offer a different way of looking at the role of religion in people's lives. The course will also explore religious expressions that have received critical evaluation in popular opinion, and place them within the context of new religions, revitalized movements, cargo cults and/or charismatic.
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3.00 Credits
Although conversations and debates between various religions and spiritual traditions have transpired gone on for centuries, the interfaith movement formally began in 1893, organized by the Parliament for World Religions in Chicago. For the first time in history, religions and spiritual traditions came together for the purpose of establishing better communications and cooperation among the world's religions. The Parliament continued its efforts to engage the world's religions and spiritual traditions in interfaith dialogue. Although it was not until 1993 that the Parliament convened its second meeting, interfaith dialogues and multi-religious programs and activities were initiated by various religious organizations locally, nationally, and internationally. Most of the early interfaith activities were organized by Christians, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, who, after the Second Vatican Council and Nostra Aetate in 1965, called for ?all to forget the past? and officially recognized Muslims as ?those who worship God,? and instructed all of its churches to engage in dialogue with Muslims as well as with Jews. Additionally, it was the World Council
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will investigate the relationship between religion and other spheres of society, such as politics, the economy, and education. Religion will be examined from a sociological perspective focusing on the work of classical and contemporary sociologists of religion. Our primary goal will be to discover whatever is common within the various forms of religious expression. We will respectfully seek to understand why and how certain social groups carry particular religious claims and traditions and we will analyze many different kinds of religious groups (cults, sects, churches, etc.).
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an historical and geographical overview of the religious traditions of South and East Asia. Emphasis will be placed upon identifying and understanding the themes of renunciation and popular practices throughout the various religions of Asia. Students will also discuss definitions of religion in order to facilitate their understanding of religious traditions that are not their own.
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3.00 Credits
This course on Peace Education will introduce students to the historical development of peace education as a field of study and as a discipline. Students will examine the contemporary discourse on peace education and the current trends and perspectives that permeate the literature. Students will also explore some of the definitions articulated by various cultures in order to establish a conceptual framework for what it means to educate for peace.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to deepen student understanding of how religion serves as an epistemological foundation for moral reasoning and action. Religious texts and communities are presented that show how differing moral communities have justified their ways of life to themselves and others in their quests for societies of virtue, responsibility, freedom and duty.
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3.00 Credits
In a selective survey of Caribbean religious beliefs and practices, this course focuses upon the historical factors that shaped the development of the multi-religious community of the Caribbean. Students will study such Caribbean traditions as Vodoun, Shamanism, Santeria, Rastafarianism, and Obeah. Students will further explore the relationship between these African diaspora religions and the Christian Church, and the intersection of religion with other vital issues such as race, history, home and migration, belief and ritual, social (in)justice, as well as postcolonial resistance and rebellion.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an intensive survey of the historical roots, critical developments, influences, ideologies, and the function of the church in the Black community in America. The role of church religion as an instrument of protest, escape mechanism, emotional outlet, and focal point of political organizing and of social life will also be analyzed. The narrative voice will be featured to allow students to hear historic agents' tell their story in their own voice and to evoke a deeply personal and visceral encounter with certain historical periods and personalities.
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