End of the World (W)
Spring 2024
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 #
3183
Course
RELS 357W -
SECT 03
SECT 03
Units
3
Fees
Price TBA:
- $ / unit
Capacity
30/30
Class Meeting Dates
01/22/2024 - 05/17/2024
Days
TBA
Times
RELS 357W - SECT 03
End of the World (W)
Class:
3183
Units:
3
M-F
01/22/2024 - 05/17/2024
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