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• RELG 100 Dying for God 6 credits

  Conventional wisdom says that religion provides comfort to individuals and stability to society. So why have so many religious people throughout history sought bodily death and pain—not just for themselves, but sometimes for others? Does God want people to die? Does subjugating the body destroy the self, or does it enhance it? This course uses a religious studies framework to examine the noble death tradition in Greco-Roman antiquity, ancient asceticism, martyrdom movements, and instances of religious violence.

  Held for new first year students

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1
  • Prerequisites:

    Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

  • Tags: CL: 100 level RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course

  • RELG  100.02 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • M, WLeighton 303 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • FLeighton 303 1:10pm-2:10pm

• RELG 213 Religion, Medicine, and Healing 6 credits

  How do religion and medicine approach the healing of disease and distress? Are religion and medicine complementary or do they conflict? Is medicine a more evolved form of religion, shorn of superstition and pseudoscience? This course explores religious and cultural models of health and techniques for achieving it, from ancient Greece to Christian monasteries to modern mindfulness and self-care programs. We will consider ethical quandaries about death, bodily suffering, mental illness, miraculous cures, and individual agency, all the while seeking to avoid simplistic narratives of rationality and irrationality.

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
  • Tags: CCST Encounters CL: 200 level PPOL Ethics RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course

  • RELG  213.01 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
  • FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am