Introduction to the Study of Religion

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This course explores the discipline of religious studies following Ninian Smart-s paradigm of the eight dimensions of religion: doctrinal, ritual, mythical,experiential, ethical, social, material, and political. Each dimension will be explored through Smart-s description of it, primary sources and secondaryreadings. This is not a World Religions course: religions will not be introduced in a systematic way, but rather through encounters related to the dimension discussed in that unit.