Origins of Comparative Religion from Hegel to Nietzsche

3 credits · Undergraduate

Comparative Religion was an invention of lecturers at the University of Berlin from 1810. Religious doctrines and cults were assessed according to the Christology of German Idealism. The beginning is Hegel's 1827 Lectures on Religion; the criticisms of Schopenhauer, D.F. Strauss, Feuerbach and Kierkegaard shall lead us to Nietzsche's "Anti-Christ. CROSSLISTED: RELS 3120.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Tutorial | Seminar