RELI380

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RELI380 - Encountering Religion

Religious Studies, CmtUndergraduateUA - UA General

Course ID

043613

Course Description

What is religion? How has religion been understood and explored, past and present? What are the different scholarly approaches to understanding and explaining religion in all its diversity? How has the academic conversation about religion, what it is and how to study it, changed over the years? In tackling these questions, we will read and discuss texts from a variety of religious studies approaches to help illuminate the complexity of studying the phenomenon we call religion.

Min Units

3

Max Units

3

Repeatable for Credit

No

Grading Basis

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Career

Undergraduate

Course Attributes

WE - WEC (Writing Emphasis Course)

Component

Lecture

Optional Component

No