RELG 103 - Introduction to Religion: Material Religion

3HU, CD, WR
First Semester. Highlighting foundational approaches, this course introduces the study of religious systems of Southern Asian Hinduism and Buddhism, North American Christianities and Oceania by considering the circulation, veneration, and manufacture of material culture such as relics, icons and amulets. Accumulation, transaction, and disappearance of religious objects reveal how origins of traditions are imagined, how religious thought and practice are formed, and how substance and symbolism, ritual and exchange, and history and politics of production affect an aura of sacrality.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 30.
Ms. Gade

Credits: 3 hours