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Course Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology and Religions: Shifting Contours and Contested Terrains


Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD

This class will explore how African Cosmology (the conception of the origin and nature of the universe) helps to frame the understanding of Traditional African religions (TAR) and their practices as they have emerged in the history of the African continent. It examines the underlying nature of African Religious thought and the role and function of myth and ritual in these religions. The class will investigate indigenized Islam and Christianity as well as western modernity.
Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: A. Miller, D. Opoku
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 281



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