ANTH 3050 - Anthropology of Religion

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of the world’s religions, a discipline that has its roots in the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The course will explore the role that the invention of writing played in the emergence of scriptural religions, as well as provide an introduction to some of the key categories in comparative religion, including: athletics, civil religion, ethics, gender, modernity, prophecy, ritual, sainthood and time. The course will conclude with a three-week ethnography of a Vodou priestess (“Mama Lola”) in the Haitian diaspora of New York City. Global Scholars course.