This course will focus on the interaction between individuals and communities with religious commitments and the political order within which they find themselves. There will be special attention to the situation within the United States, its historical antecedents, its particular history, and its current problematic. Religion and Medicine. This course examines questions in traditional medical ethics as well as modern bioethics. The focus is on religious analyses of these questions.
Issues discussed include killing, experimentation, and the implications of the new genetics.
Philosophy of Religion. An examination of basic religious concepts. Theories of Religion. A study of some of the principal attempts in the 19th and 20th centuries to interpret the nature of religion in the light of modern thought. Works of both defenders and critics of religion will be examined.