This course pursues the unique insights contemporary fiction and film offer for understanding world religions and spiritualistic. What do such narratives suggest about similarities and differences between Midwestern Protestantism and New York City Judaism, or between Iranian Islam and New Zealand indigenous spirituality? Conversely, the course considers the value of religious and secular questions for understanding literary and filmic characters and plots. What can understanding basic concepts of Hinduism or Taoism, for instance, reveal about an Oscar-winning film or a major science fiction novel?

This syllabus was created for the Young Scholars in American Religion program.

Everett Hamner
Author

Western Illinois University-Quad Cities
Institution

Public College or University
Institution Type

Syllabus
Resource Type

Undergraduate Course, Graduate Course
Class Type

2011
Date Published

Religious Studies, Other
Discipline

Buddhism, General Comparative Traditions, Hinduism, Indigenous, Islam, Judaism, Protestant
Religous Tradition

Empire/Foreign Policy/Globalism, Popular Culture/Media/Music/Sports, Pluralism/Secularism/Culture Wars, Race/Ethnicity, Region/Urban/Rural
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