Description
Pre-requisite: Junior Classification
This course is an introduction to the study of the world's major religions: Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Other less known religions and religious movements are also discussed. The course covers the ideas and concepts that have shaped religions, as well as the questions that they have sought to address, with an emphasis on those themes shared by all of them. Students will gain a better understanding, through religion, of how human beings over the ages have perceived their place in the world.