{"id":832,"date":"2018-10-30T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/?p=832"},"modified":"2018-10-30T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:59:04","slug":"spring-2019-courses-comparing-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2018\/10\/30\/spring-2019-courses-comparing-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2019 Courses: Comparing Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-833\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/10\/REL20_S19-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/10\/REL20_S19-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/10\/REL20_S19-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/10\/REL20_S19-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/10\/REL20_S19.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This course uses three \u201ccase study\u201d religions to explore the questions of \u201cWhat is religion?\u201d and how can we begin to compare religions? We\u2019ll look at stories, rituals, beliefs, and social roles from Buddhism, Islam, and Navajo religion, using the theories of scholars of religion. We\u2019ll explore how religion can be intensely personal, involving visions and experiences that change a person, and change the course of history. We\u2019ll grapple with the ways religions shape our understanding of what it means to be good or evil, and what it means to be a human, or a god, or an animal, and what happens to us after we die. We will work together to explore the diversity we find within religious traditions, reflecting complicated relationships between religion and culture, demonstrating that religion, far from being a fixed object that we can pin down, is fluid over time and across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course uses three \u201ccase study\u201d religions to explore the questions of \u201cWhat is religion?\u201d and how can we begin to compare religions? We\u2019ll look at stories, rituals, beliefs, and social roles from Buddhism, Islam, and Navajo religion, using the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2018\/10\/30\/spring-2019-courses-comparing-religions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109863,110219],"tags":[474653,474656,118,16],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-blog","category-student-blog","tag-studyreligion","tag-spring2019","tag-student","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4woDM-dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}