End of the World (W)
Fall 2023
Description
This course introduces students to the ways in which historic and contemporary religious communities interpret catastrophes and how religious worlds explain and provide humans with tools to cope with catastrophes and with making meaning out of suffering and death. Focus is on visions of the end of the world (apocalypticism, environmental destruction), interpreting the meaning of disasters (natural, human-induced), and personal and global annihilation (epidemics, nuclear destruction).
Class Notes
Class Details
Instructor
Instructor Name (static text):
Lennon, Patricia M
Location
WWW ONLINE
Class Registration Information
Class #
4740
Course
RELS 357W -
SECT 02
SECT 02
Units
3
Fees
Price TBA:
- $ / unit
Capacity
30/30
Class Meeting Dates
08/21/2023 - 12/15/2023
Days
TBA
Times
RELS 357W - SECT 02
End of the World (W)
Class:
4740
Units:
3
M-F
08/21/2023 - 12/15/2023
TBA
This course introduces students to the ways in which historic and contemporary religious communities interpret catastrophes and how religious worlds explain and provide humans with tools to cope with catastrophes and with making meaning out of suffering and death. Focus is on visions of the end of the world (apocalypticism, environmental destruction), interpreting the meaning of disasters (natural, human-induced), and personal and global annihilation (epidemics, nuclear destruction).
Class Notes
This course introduces students to the ways in which historic and contemporary religious communities interpret catastrophes and how religious worlds explain and provide humans with tools to cope with catastrophes and with making meaning out of suffering and death. Focus is on visions of the end of the world (apocalypticism, environmental destruction), interpreting the meaning of disasters (natural, human-induced), and personal and global annihilation (epidemics, nuclear destruction).
Instructor
Instructor Name (static text):
Lennon, Patricia M
Location
WWW ONLINE