AA
5373 -
Religion and Worldview
(FALL) (3 graduate credits)
The course is an introduction to the range of religious systems of minority peoples worldwide, including universal religions and their
folk varieties
. Subjects treated include how religion has been defined by anthropologists and treated within anthropology. There is comparison and contrast of Christian and secular anthropological approaches to religion. There is a certain focus on witches and witch ontologies and how they compare to biblical idols.
Prerequisite:
AA4370 Cultural Anthropology.