Resources

A 2002 course by Tim Lubin at Washington and Lee University "looks as how deities, cults, ideas, and practices spread from one place to another as part of a growing empire, a network of holy men, or a circuit of traders."

A 1998 course by Jim Dalton at Siena College examines "religious experiences and their expressions within a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context."

A 2014 course by Joseph Adler at Kenyon College about the "various human phenomena that we call 'religious" and "the world's major religious traditions."

A 2012 course by Mark Unno at the University of Oregon takes a comparative approach to "religious and philosophical thought" of "selected Asian and Western thinkers" on "conception of the self, with a special focus on the dark side of the self . . . including sin in Christianity, karmic evil and delusion in Buddhism, disharmony in Taoism, and suffering in psychology."

A 1999 course by Dale Cannon at Western Oregon University examines "the nature and role of ["the way of devotion"] . . . In a variety of religious traditions."

A 2006 course by Adam Porter at Illinois College introduces "students to the three religious traditions that trace their heritage to Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."

A 2006 course by Jim Watts at Syracuse University traces "the idea of sacrifice along two vectors: the cultural vector . . . From modern to ancient Near Eastern cultures, and the theoretical vector which we will analyze forwards from 19th-century to contemporary theorists of sacrifice."

A course by Rick Rogers at Eastern Michigan University "explores the disturbing alliance between religion and violence in a variety of religious traditions and cultural contexts."

A 2016 course taught by John N. Sheveland at Gonzaga University investigates "recent examples of religious group violence and consult a variety of religious responses. We study sacred texts, theological and ethical traditions, but also films, through 2015."

A 2002 course by Michael Sells at Haverford College uses case studies to analyze phenomena of violence with religious roots.