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Jul 31, 2025
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PHR 1100 - RELIGION AND THE MODERN WORLD
credits: 3.0
Will present a dynamic view of religious beliefs and practices, focusing specifically on how the challenges and changes in modernity influence and are shaped by global religious ideologies. Diverse religious ideologies and communities from around the globe are represented including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Neo-Paganism, and others. Issues highlighted in this course include how religion and global religious leaders shape intercultural discussions and policies in regards to several facets of modernity such as globalization, social justice, gender and sexual identity, environmentalism, popular culture, secularism, and violence. Objectives: A) Relate the various global dimensions of beliefs and practices by religious people in modernity; B) Explain the role of modern religious influence on diverse thematic issues around the globe; C) Analyze the process and impact of globalization on religiosity and religiosity on globalization; D) Research using interdisciplinary, objective approaches to studying religion; E) Critically engage socio-cultural phenomena, religious ideologies in modernity, and primary and secondary source material; F) Develop cogent arguments of religious themes in modernity through individual research. Method of Instruction: Lectures (PPT and video), video segments, and reading assignments. Method of Evaluation: Syllabus Quiz, Introduction Discussion Board Post, Discussion Boards for Each of Six Units, Final Exam, Two Critical Insight Papers. Meets *GLP Distribution Requirement.
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