Rels 200 - Understanding World Religions

Religious Studies 200
The Origin and Nature of Religious Worldviews
Date
Sept. 8
10
Understanding World Religions (UWR) cps 1-2: Introduction
and A Biased Canon
12
Week
1
1
1
15
Ninian Smart "Meaning in and Meaning of Religion"
2
17
19
Fred Welbourn "Towards Eliminating the Concept of Religion"
Both articles are on the website under "Articles"
2
2
22
24
26
Vidal "On Worldviews"
Wolters "On the idea of a worldview"
3
3
3
29
Oct. 1
3
Vidal et. al "World Views from fragmentation to integration"
Cannon "David Naugle on Worldviews"
4
4
4
6
8
10
UWR cps 3-6: African Religious Tradition; Witchcraft and
Sorcery; God in Zulu Religion; The Case of Isaiah Shembe
5
5
5
13
15
17
UWR cps 11-13: Buddhism; The Development of Buddhism;
and The Moral Quest of Edward Conze
First test
6
20
22
24
UWR cps 7-10: Yogic Religions; The Richness of the HT;
Rethinking the Hindu Tradition; and Gandhi the Contrarian.
7
27
29
31
UWR cps 15- Early Judaism; Rabbinic and Other Judaisms;
Jewish Faith and Practice; and Martin Buber
8
Nov. 3
5
7
UWR cps 19-22: Christianity; Christian History; Christian Faith
and Practice; and Abraham Kuyper
9
10
12
14
UWR cps 23-26: The Challenge of Islam; Muslim Beliefs and
Practice; Muslim Piety; and Sayyid Qutb
17
19
Readings found on the website under "Courses": Paine;
Feuerbach; Marx.
10
11
21
Second Test
24
26
28
No readings
1
3
5
No readings
12
Blog prep - third mini-Blog due 29 November
Blog Prep - third mini-Blog due 7 December
13

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