religion Tag

06 Jan

Posted at 06:00h in Collegiate, Humanities

While human beings through time have found plenty to disagree about—politics, financial matters, family and neighborly feuds—perhaps there is no more contentious subject than religion. Though human beings through time have found plenty to disagree about—politics, financial matters, family and neighborly feuds—perhaps there is no more contentious subject than religion. Religion, understood broadly as a set of beliefs and practices meant to venerate the supernatural, is at once deeply personal and generally enacted in conjunction with a large community of fellow worshippers. Given that today the religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism account for the faiths of...

13 Aug

Posted at 21:27h in Collegiate, Humanities

A course virtual text package that will serve students as a general interdisciplinary “review” of the Western religious tradition of monotheism with a focus on Jewish and Christian religious traditions with a unit on Islam as a “clash of monotheistic ideals” relevant to the contemporary world....