In doing this, we want to learn more about other people, other parts of the world, humanity in general, and about ourselves. We want to ask what religions do for people and what people do for religion. We want to learn something about how religions begin, why they are so important in so many human lives, how they differ from each other, how they change, and what the future may hold for them. To answer such questions as these, we will study religion in five parts. First we will get some tips on how to study religions in general, including a warning on what biases we need to avoid.
Religions give expression to the underlying spirituality of different cultural traditions.
Studying both the founders and the practitioners of religions, we want to discover where the joumey of life leads the religious believer and where our journey of exploration takes us. We want to obtain, as best we can, an unbiased and educated view of religions in the lives of people around the world. Michael Molloy, Fxperiencing the World's Religions. Experiencing the World's Religions. Attend class regularly.