Religion

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The objectives for the minor in religion include:

  • Cultivate foundational knowledge of the history, rituals, scriptures, and beliefs of major world religions.
  • Critically interpret representations of religious movements and religious conflict found in popular culture, the arts, and news media.
  • Analyze the complex historical, political, and cultural backgrounds of global and historical religious movements and conflicts.
  • Designed for students to comprehend how religion can foment both social justice and acts of violence, complacency and rebellion, liberation movements and imperialism, compassion and tyranny.
  • Apply historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary methods to religious phenomena, including texts, images, material objects, institutions, theologies, and movements.
  • Respectfully debate the role of religion in public life and politics.