SCAR 2WX3
HEALTH, HEALING AND RELIGION: COMPARATIVE VIEWS
Fall 2025 · Health, Healing And Religion · C01
Readings
- Materials Available Through Library Ereserves
Fall 2025 · C01
Topics
- Module 1 (Opens Monday September 2, Closes Friday September 19)
- Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
- Rodrigues, Hillary and Harding, John S. Harding, 2009, Introduction to the Study of Religion, Routledge, pp. 1–17
- Boyd, Kenneth, 2000. “Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing, and wholeness: exploring some elusive concepts,” Medical Humanities 26, 9–17
- Module 2 (Opens Monday September 15, Closes Friday October 3)
- What is the Human Body?
- Module 3 (Opens Monday September 29, Closes Friday October 24)
- What is Wellness?
- Bray, Francesca. 1999. “Chinese Health Beliefs” In Religion, Health and Suffering, edited by Roy Porter, Routledge, 1999, pp. 187-211
- Module 4 (Opens Monday October 20, Closes Friday November 7)
- What causes disease?
- Module 5 (Opens Monday November 3, Closes Friday November 21)
- How can we be healed?
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Fall 2025
- The source explicitly says no books/textbook are required; other assigned readings may still apply.
- The outline explicitly states that no textbook is required. Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete.