GNOSTIC AMERICA

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Covers the rise of Gnostic spirituality in American religion and culture, from the Colonial period to the present. Explores the alpha conduits (Boehme, Blavatsky, Jung, academia). Examines the roles of revelatory experience, artifact migration, historical criticism, secularization, hybridity, heresy, and popularization. Case studies vary depending on students' research goals. 5000-word research paper. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 417 if student has credit for RELI 517.