Undergraduate Religion-Rock County
Undergraduate Religion-Rock County
2020 Spring Term
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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION
REL 101
This course Introduces students to various methods employed in the academic study of religion & will provide opportunity for students to apply these methods to diverse expressions of the religious life. This course is primarily a global awareness competencies course.
RELIGION, MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT
REL 343
(ANT 343 & REL 343 are the same course.) Religion, magic & witchcraft are uniquely human means of reaching out to the supernatural realm in order to effect changes in the here & now. This course Introduces student to descriptions & interpretations of magico-religious beliefs & practices in a variety of cultures from an anthropological perspective, which does not attempt to judge the validity of such beliefs but to underst& their origins & functions, among other things. It examines theories about religion & some of the conceptual issues regarding the interpretation of religion & related phenomena which have interested anthropologists over time.