ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES

Undergraduate

This course examines how the quest for fresh and direct ways of encountering the sacred has driven much of human religious history. Increasingly, people in Western societies express dissatisfaction with both the traditional Judaeo-Christian religions and the purely materialistic and secular understanding of existence. This is a comparative survey of alternative forms of spirituality, focusing upon those arising from three major sources: Western occultism, Eastern religions and mysticism, and revived or reconstructed ancient spiritualities. Three credit hours