ENVS 006. First-Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days

(Cross-listed as RELG 006C)
For millennia, speculation about the end of the world has fired the imaginations of Western cultures. Today, environmentalists argue we are in the time of the “Sixth Great Extinction,” while religious communities assert we are living into the end of the world based on ancient prophecies. This course will ask how two seemingly unrelated modes of discourse - environmental science and religious studies - converge to shape productive responses to the world’s end; and the power of Earth-based spiritualities (with special reference to Buddhist, Christian and Indigenous worldviews) to give birth to hope and resilience in the face of the coming storm.

Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for ENVS, ESCH
Catalog chapter: Environmental Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/environmental-studies

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