God- Past, Puzzle, Present

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(WRLD) Offered intermittently. This class explores the idea of God across time and space from antiquity through the present. In particular, students will examine how forces of history have shaped notions of divinity and examine how those ideas and the institutions and practices they inspire have in turn shaped historical events. At the root of the semester’s exploration is the puzzle of why immanent, earthly beings have for so long been drawn to the ethereal and transcendent and how that attraction has changed over time. Includes one observation of a community religious service.