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Religion Undergraduate Courses

MET RN 100 Religion, Spirituality and Personal Experience

Is spirituality an inherent feature of human nature? Is religion relevant to my personal life? What do I consider to be divine? Does religion relieve and/or abet human suffering? Students will explore these personal questions using sources in psychology, culture and religion, including Freud, Jung, James and Du Bois. Spiritual autobiographers such as St. Augustine, Elie Wiesel, Malcolm X and Malidoma Patrice Some will also provide valuable contributions to our examination of the role of religion in our personal lives. (4 cr.)

MET RN 104 World Religion West

Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Introduction to development, thought, practices, and influence of these religions. (4 cr.)

MET RN 207 Myth and Religion in Literature

The hidden symmetry between religion and art in twentieth-century consciousness. Explores the covert spirituality in modern vision and reveals its archaic psychological roots. Selected readings in Eliade, Jung, Joyce, Kafka, and Flannery O'Connor. (4 cr.)

MET RN 211 Chinese Religion

A historical survey of Chinese religion that explores the diversity and unity of Chinese traditions. Covers ancient mythology, cosmology, shamanism; Confucianism and the traditional state cult, Taoist mysticism, and immortality; Buddhism and Chinese religious transformation. (4 cr.)