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RELG110 Intro to Religious Studies

Professor: Jay McKenzie
tel: 777-4100
email: clemkenzie@gmail.com
Office: Rutledge 328
 		Summer I 2008
MTWT 10:30-12:45
GAMB 123
Office hours: by appointment

Course description

This course is an introduction to the beliefs and spiritual practices of the world's religions. Following a brief discussion of various scholarly approaches to the subject, the class will focus on the following specific traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the primal religion of the American Plains Indians. The focus of the class will theological and philosophical rather than historical.

Texts

Smith, Huston World Religions
Course packet

Course requirements

Quizzes, Midterm, and Final exam




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