RELG 274 - Friendship: Perspectives from Religion, Politics, Economics, and Art

FC ARHU

4 credits
This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the role of friendship in promoting peacemaking. By providing normative, philosophical, theological, political, economic, and artistic analysis (in visual arts, literature, and film), the course examines the potentials of friendship as a catalyst for a paradigm shift in international and interfaith relations and in peacemaking. Moving beyond cold war and cold peace, this course discusses how promoting civic friendship through interdisciplinary and inter-cultural approaches can help curb violence, political oppression, religious extremism, economic injustice, and environmental destruction.

Sustainability