| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2026 2025 |
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| Area of Inquiry | Human Thought and Expression |
| Liberal Arts Practices | Confront Collective Challenges The Process of Writing |
Explores the intersection between religion, power, and politics in our world today. Students study several major religious communities and examine how scholars wrestle with some of the following contemporary issues: the relationship between religion and violence, the rise of secularism, interactions between religion and law, religion and race, religion and medicine, faith-based movements for environmental justice, and religion in media, and popular culture. The specific topics under investigation may change each semester. This topical approach introduces students to diverse perspectives within the academic study of religion and provides them with new frameworks for making sense of some of our world’s most controversial religious and political issues. Coursework presumes no background knowledge of religion or politics.