RELS 4301 - Animals and Religion: Between Animals and Gods

3 Credit Hours
Description
Are people born to sort, organize, classify, and order their environments? Do we impose order on nature, or do we observe an order inherent in nature? To what degree are our systems of classification culturally dependent? How do people negotiate competing ways of ordering the world? In this course, you will explore questions like these in relation to two populations against which we humans define ourselves: animals and gods.