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”? Seminar themes include religion and personal and social change; understandings of the Sacred; suffering, death, love, justice, healing, fear, hope; and meaning in times of plagues and pandemics. Readings include Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Thomas, Lucretia Mott, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dorothy Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary Oliver, and William Barber II.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2023. Ross.
Spring 2025. Ross.
Fall 2025. Ross.
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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