Issues in the Study of Secular Society

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course explores issues of contemporary interest regarding the study of religion and secular society, focusing on social, moral, political and existential aspects of western secularity. Broadly, the course engages topical questions of public life in a secular world from an interdisciplinary perspective. Issues of focus may include: the role of religion in the public sphere; religion, secularism and social justice; individual and group identity in secular contexts; ecology in a secular world; communication in secular society; skepticism, atheism and religious faith.