ANTH 236. What is Religion? (4 units)
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Description
Religion is both the crowning achievement of the human imagination and the epitome of its most self-destructive impulses. It is simultaneously a force for oppression and liberation, creativity and constraint. How can we understand this powerful domain of human experience with its transformative practices, authoritative institutions, and compelling rhetorics of world-making? The seminar examines this question from the standpoints of religious studies and the anthropology of religion. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Prerequisite courses
ANTH 236 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have ANTH 236 as a prerequisite.