RELG 001. Introduction to Religion

This course introduces the nature of religious worldviews, their cultural manifestations, and their influence on personal and social self-understanding and action. The course explores various themes and structures seminal to the nature of religion and its study: sacred scripture, visions of ultimate reality and their various manifestations, religious experience and its expression in systems of thought, and ritual behavior and moral action. Members of the department will lecture and lead weekly discussion sections.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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