(REL 164) Religion in Global Contexts

4 Credits

This course introduces students to the academic study of religion through influential theories and diverse global examples. We examine how religion shapes and reflects societies across time and place—from the earliest ancestral practices in Africa and Australia to East Asian traditions and the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania. By engaging novels, films, and scholarly works, students explore how human imagination and cultural expression reveal the enduring power of religion in shaping meaning, identity, and community in a globalized world. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU