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2016 / 2017Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Anthropology of Religion

GRS AN 784

Credits:
4
Offered:
either sem.

Myth, ritual, and religious experience across cultures. Special attention to the problem of religious symbolism and meaning, religious conversion and revitalization, contrasts between traditional and world religions, and the relation of religious knowledge to science, magic, and ideology. Also offered as GRS RN 687.

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