SOCI 385: Religion and Society

SOCI 385-001: Religion and Society
(Spring 2023)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Innovation Hall 136

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Section Information for Spring 2023

SOCI 385 - 001: Religion and Society

Providing an important study for understanding today’s headlines and life’s Big Questions, "Religion and Society" surveys the world’s major religious traditions and introduces scholarly methods for the study of religion from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a sociological bent. It explores the nature of religious beliefs, rituals, and institutions, both historically and in the contemporary context. Of particular interest will be the way in which faith traditions form and change over time as they become increasingly cosmopolitan, and the relationship between those traditions and daily life, political and social conflicts, ethics, and the globalization of culture and society.three religious images mecca buddah hindu goddess and child

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Studies places of religious consciousness in human action and institutional and organizational networks created to sustain religious beliefs. Emphasizes comparative and historical analysis of role religion has played in human society. Examines theories of nature of religious experience, religious symbolism, and basis of religious community. Explores changing demographics in relation to older traditional religious faiths and newer nontraditional faiths. Limited to three attempts.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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