Beyond Belief

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Is it possible to argue about religious belief? Is it possible not to? Is religion about belief in some set of propositions, anyway, or about something else entirely? Whose concept of religion are we to follow when deciding? Whose standard of reasonability? The world is a big place. What would a truly global philosophy of religion look like? How would it reframe ancient questions concerning God and the gods, the sacred and the transcendent, good and evil, and the rest? These and many more questions will not receive a definitive answer in this highly experimental course. But we will criss-cross the world's many religious and philosophical traditions, in an effort to understand what is involved in any attempt to understand the ineffable.