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College Catalog 2014-2015 
    
College Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

REL 105 - HUM Exploring Religion and Religions

4.00 credits.
(Humanities Core Course)
A survey introducing historical origins, practices and beliefs of many of the world’s religious traditions and the methods of inquiry in the various disciplines in the field of religious studies. Theories of the nature and origin of religion, and categories such as the sacred, myth, scripture, ritual, ethics, religious change and questions of religious truth are explored. Significant attention to the contemporary environment of religion is granted.