RELG 011. First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life

What is the purpose and meaning of life? What constitutes “a life well lived”? Themes include religion and personal and social change, understandings of the Sacred, religion and radical action, community, suffering, love, hope, religion and healing, religion and violence, and good and evil. Readings include Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Thomas, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Sybrina Fulton, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dorothy Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bryan Stevenson, Eboo Patel, Gregory Boyle, Terry Tempest Williams, and Krista Tippett.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2020. Ross.
Fall 2021. Ross.
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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