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Catalogue 2018-2019 
    
Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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RELI 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)


Topic for 2018/19b: Key Controversies in Science, Technology and Religion. (STS 350 ) This course introduces students to new and controversial topics in the study of religion, science, technology and spirituality. We examine controversial issues such as evolution/creation, artificial intelligence, science fiction as spirituality, religious and secular views of the mind, issues in biomedical ethics such as cloning, the neurology of religious experience, technologically-mediated spirituality, pseudo-science and parapsychology. Christopher White.

Topic for 2018/19b: Dreams, Myths and Visions in the Religious Imagination. This seminar focuses on the understanding and utilization of dreams and myths in Eastern and Western religious traditions. It explores dream and visionary passages in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic works as well as traditional interpretations of dreams, and their attendant myths in India and Tibet.  In addition to working with traditional commentaries and interpretations, the course considers contemporary theoretical approaches from structuralist and post-structuralist sources, depth psychology, and cognitive science.  Readings  include passages from the Hebrew Scriptures, the Book of Revelation, the Qur’an, the Bhagvata-Purana, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  Critical materials include the works of Tsong Kha Pa, Freud, Jung, Laberge, and others. Rick Jarow.

One 2-hour period.



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