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World Religions

Faith and meaning across human cultures. The sacred & profane (Eliade, Durkheim, William James), indigenous & animist traditions, African religions, Aboriginal Dreamtime, Native American spiritualities, ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman & Norse polytheism, Hinduism (Vedas, Upanishads, Trimurti, Bhagavad Gita), Jainism & ahimsa, Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen), Sikhism & the Ten Gurus, Confucianism & the Analects, Daoism & the Tao Te Ching, Shinto & kami, Zoroastrianism, Judaism (Torah, Talmud, Hasidic, Reform), Christianity (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestant Reformation, Pentecostalism), Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism, Five Pillars), Bahá'í, new religious movements, atheism & secular humanism, comparative themes, modern pluralism & conflict, and the future of faith. 45 units, 675 lessons.