REL 295-02 - Special Topic: Religion and the Environment

4 credits (Spring)

This course explores religious underpinnings of contemporary global attitudes and practices concerning the environment and the human/nature relationship. In it, we focus on how religious beliefs concerning the environment have been articulated in both ideology and practice, and critically consider how religion may be used as a resource for environmental sustainability. Religions covered include indigenous North America, Christianity, Buddhism and Daoism.

Prerequisite: REL 101, REL 102, REL 103, REL 104, REL 105, or second-year standing.
Instructor: Bhutia