This 2021 course by Chelsea Starr at Eastern New Mexico University is an introduction to the basic perspectives with which sociologists analyze the relationship between religion and society. Explores the social processes at work in congregations and denominations, new religious movements, conversion/deconversion, religious identity, secularization, minority religions, inequalities and religion, and current trends.
A 2020 course by Manasicha Akepiyapornchai at Cornell University “explores the Bhagavadgītā in different aspects to answer the question of how powerful a religious text can be. We will discuss how translations, commentaries, biographies, and scholarly sources shape the Bhagavadgītā and contribute to its popularity in the premodern and contemporary histories.”
A 2020 course by Andrew Monteith at Elon University is “designed to familiarize students with Christian history, with the key topics which have been relevant to assorted Christians, and with the diversity that falls under the umbrella term ‘Christianity.'”
A 2020 course by Andrew Monteith at Elon University “investigates traditions that—in many cases—would not identify themselves as ‘religion,’ or which attempt to reject ‘religion’ as a concept. Examples of such traditions include New Atheism, Satanism, the veneration of social and political systems, Scientology, and even some religions identified as ‘joke’ religions, such as Pastafarianism.”
A 2019 course by Andrew Monteith at Elon University analyzes “the ways that movies, television, sports, novels, and other types of popular culture can shape, cultivate, interact with, and even serve as religion.”
A 2020 course by Jeffrey D. Meyers at DePaul University “draws upon a variety of disciplines to examine despair and hope from theoretical and applied perspectives.”
A 2020 course by Jeffrey D. Meyers at DePaul University “combines the perspectives of religious studies and peace, justice, and conflict studies to examine forgiveness and reconciliation and their role in conflict resolution and the creation of just and peaceful societies.”
A 2021 course by Jeffrey D. Meyers at DePaul University “combines the perspectives of religious studies and peace, justice, and conflict studies to examine forgiveness and reconciliation and their role in conflict resolution and the creation of just and peaceful societies.”
A 2020 course by Jeffrey D. Meyers at Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University) is “a critical introduction to normative Christian social ethics (its methodology, theology, and moral principles) on selected contemporary moral issues such as war, racism, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation.”
A 2020 course by Bryan Lowe at Princeton University “introduces the religious traditions of Japan from the earliest myths to present-day practices” with special attention to the interplay of religion and culture.
