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Religion 210--Introduction to Religious Studies, 3 Credit Hours
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Catalog Description: Examination of the most-influential modern
theories of religion,
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including those associated with the rise of the social sciences. Theorists to be
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examined represent the fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology, and
will
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include such figures as James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Mircea
Eliade,
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Clifford Geertz, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Throughout, the focus will be on
attempts
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to explain religion and the question of whether or not explaining religion
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necessarily explains it away.
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