STS 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
(Same as RELI 350 ) In this course we examine closely religious rituals and how they are used to understand or approach the divine. We focus in particular on ritual prayer, meditation, spirit possession and other practices of listening or speaking to God(s). The course examines these practices across a number of cultures and religious traditions.
Topic for 2016/17b: Higher Dimensions and Alternate Universes in History and Pop Culture. This course examines the cultural history of American and British speculations about infinity, other dimensions and the physical and metaphysical energies that undergird the universe. We examine the history of math and physics, how American and British religious thinkers appropriate this scientific literature, and how ideas about infinite spacial dimensions are taken up in popular novels, science fiction and fantasy. Christopher White .
One 2-hour period.
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