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Nov 22, 2024
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PHR 2160 - INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
credits: 3.0
ANT 2160 -PHR 2160. This course surveys several indigenous, tribal, pagan, or ethnic religious traditions throughout the world, including Aboriginal Australians, African tribes, Native Americans, Central and South American, Central and Southeast Asian tribes, Polynesian tribes, and indigenous Europeans. Topics include indigenous people’s relationship with the land, forms of sacred knowledge and power, magic, witchcraft, kinship, oral narrative, ritual, and the continuity of tribal identity. Objectives: A) Explain the role of religion in the lives of diverse indigenous, tribal, or ethnic peoples; B) Differentiate between the beliefs and practices of indigenous people in different locations and times; C) Analyze the shared roles of myth, magic, and ritual in indigenous religions; D) Articulate indigenous conceptions of knowledge, community, nature, and existence; E) Research indigenous religions using interdisciplinary, objective approaches; F) Evaluate scholarly interpretations of indigenous, tribal, or ethnic religious traditions; G) Develop cogent arguments of indigenous religious topics through individual research. Method of Instruction: Lectures, videos, and readings. Method of Evaluation: Quizzes; Weekly Writing Assignments; and a Research Paper. Meets *NWP Distribution Requirement.
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