RELI 145. Communication, Technology, and Religion (4 units)
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Description
This course will look at the relationship between information communication technologies (ICTs) and religion and how they have intersected or diverged in the course of history. We will look at both older and newer media, such as telegraph, radio, television, cassette tapes, internet, and satellite, and how they have been used by groups like Evangelical, Catholic, or Islamist movements in proliferation and transformation of ideas, rituals, ideologies, values, and diverse forms of sociability. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite courses
RELI 145 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have RELI 145 as a prerequisite.