Is God Dead?

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This course explores one of the most provocative questions in modern religious thought: Is God dead? Instead of answering this question definitively, it examines how influential philosophers, theologians, and cultural critics in European and American thought have responded to the perceived reality of the death of God. Through close readings of key texts, it engages with scientific, existentialist, psychoanalytical, theological, gender, and racial perspectives on the modern religious situation, secularism, and the search for meaning in a world without an absolute foundation. The course considers whether the 'death of God' is a historical reality, a philosophical provocation, or an unfinished debate, and explores the political and moral implications of these questions.