Although unimaginable and unthinkable, they have felt compelled to confront it. We will look at the effort of philosophers and theologians to access the magnitude of the event, the challenges that it poses for Jewish and Christian life, tradition, and thought, and the responses required to meet its challenges. Students who have received credit for RELI 358 may not take this course for credit. This overview looks at the many diverse religious traditions of the First Nations populations in Canada. The course examines the sacred stories, ceremonial patterns, life cycle rituals, and religious activities in their varied expressions.
Consideration is given to the historical interaction of native government with religious practices.
An introductory course in the Hindi language. This course will enable students with no knowledge of Hindi to read, write and express themselves in Hindi. At the end of the course, the vocabulary acquired by the students will comprise about 400 words and expressions. In this course we will investigate different theories, both ancient and contemporary, from philosophical and allegorical to anthropological, psychological, structuralist and contextual, of myth and its function. We will then examine a variety of myths ranging from the ancient to the contemporary world, oral and written, but also those myths which are expressed in visual representations.