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This course is a collaborative inquiry exploring both the diversity across religions from around the globe, as well as the internal diversity within any single religion. The goal is to develop a knowledge base about the practices, rituals, beliefs, material culture and social organization of several world religions. Themes and issues encountered may relate variously to patterns of ritual and belief, styles of spirituality and religious cohesion, ideologies of gender and sexual regulation, intersections with politics and ecology, approaches to evil and suffering,death and the afterlife. The course fosters awareness of how multi-dimensional religious identities can be while providing the tools to think critically about them. Religions explored may include but are not limited to indigenous, hindu, buddhist, jewish, Christian, muslim, taoist,or pagan traditions.

This course is a collaborative inquiry exploring both the diversity across religions from around the globe, as well as the internal diversity within any single religion. The goal is to develop a knowledge base about the practices, rituals, beliefs, material culture and social organization of several world religions. Themes and issues encountered may relate variously to patterns of ritual and belief, styles of spirituality and religious cohesion, ideologies of gender and sexual regulation, intersections with politics and ecology, approaches to evil and suffering,death and the afterlife. The course fosters awareness of how multi-dimensional religious identities can be while providing the tools to think critically about them. Religions explored may include but are not limited to indigenous, hindu, buddhist, jewish, Christian, muslim, taoist,or pagan traditions.

Religious traditions and actors mobilize and in turn are mobilized by political movements at international, national, and community-based levels. Within a multi religious and comparative framework, this course explores the way in which religious and political identities, actors and systems interact on issues related, for instance, to religiously-based political parties, democratization movements, nationalism, fundamentalism and the politics of resistance.

The study of the relationships which shape the nature of human interaction informed by or oriented towards values and specific goals. The role of religious beliefs and communities in analyzing and responding to economic, social, and political problems will be examined.

An in-depth analysis of selected issues in Religious Studies, focusing on the distinctive concerns of the discipline and the furthering of research skills appropriate to it. The course fosters reflection on the variety of methods used in Religious Studies, mindful of the need of senior students to integrate their four years of learning in the discipline. Honours students are normally required to take this course in their third year, Majors students in their fourth year, of full-time study.

This course is a collaborative inquiry exploring both the diversity across religions from around the globe, as well as the internal diversity within any single religion. The goal is to develop a knowledge base about the practices, rituals, beliefs, material culture and social organization of several world religions. Themes and issues encountered may relate variously to patterns of ritual and belief, styles of spirituality and religious cohesion, ideologies of gender and sexual regulation, intersections with politics and ecology, approaches to evil and suffering,death and the afterlife. The course fosters awareness of how multi-dimensional religious identities can be while providing the tools to think critically about them. Religions explored may include but are not limited to indigenous, hindu, buddhist, jewish, Christian, muslim, taoist,or pagan traditions.

This course is a collaborative inquiry exploring both the diversity across religions from around the globe, as well as the internal diversity within any single religion. The goal is to develop a knowledge base about the practices, rituals, beliefs, material culture and social organization of several world religions. Themes and issues encountered may relate variously to patterns of ritual and belief, styles of spirituality and religious cohesion, ideologies of gender and sexual regulation, intersections with politics and ecology, approaches to evil and suffering,death and the afterlife. The course fosters awareness of how multi-dimensional religious identities can be while providing the tools to think critically about them. Religions explored may include but are not limited to indigenous, hindu, buddhist, jewish, Christian, muslim, taoist,or pagan traditions.

This course explores the basic approaches and issues related to the field of bioethics. A specific emphasis on contemporary medical practice will provide the context for ethical reflection.

Women's rights, gender sensitivities, and feminist movements both inside and outside the churches have inspired lively and complex debates within contemporary Christian theologies. By deconstructing, revising and rebuilding basic issues in theology on the basis of women's experiences and gender analysis, a substantial range of feminist theologies has emerged. This course will explore theological themes and interests central to the diversity of feminist theologies.