Religious Dimensions in Human Experience

Harvard FAS

What is religion? Why does it show up everywhere? Using archaeology, religious studies, and social thought, this course studies the major themes in the history of religions including encountering the holy, sports and ritual, crossing borders, sacrifice as creation, pilgrimage and sacred place, suffering and the quest for wisdom, music and social change, and violence, the Holocaust and cosmic law. Readings originate from Native American, African American, Latinx/+, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian,…