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ANT 202 - Anthropology of Religion

This course has been deactivated and no longer offered at MCC

3 Credits

Explores anthropological data on and interpretations of human religious experience from Paleolithic times to modern satanic cults. Students are guided across a spectrum of religious behavior, Worldview, religious specialists, ritual, magic, the supernatural, and consequences of religious variability are examined in light of our need to escape culture-bound conceptions of religion.

Prerequisite: ANT 102 OR SOC 101 OR permission of instructor.

Learning Attributes: WR

Retiring SUNY General Education: SUNY-SS - Social Sciences (SSCS)

MCC General Education: MCC-CT - Critical Thinking (MCT), MCC-SCI - Scientific Reasoning (MSCI), MCC-SSD - Social Science and Diversity (MSSD)

Course Learning Outcomes
1. Identify anthropological interpretations of various human religious experiences.
2. Define culture-bound notions about religion.
3. Investigate a spectrum of religious behaviors, worldviews, and religious practices including ritual, magic, and the supernatural.
4. Differentiate between worldwide religious practices in order to challenge culture-bound notions of religion.
5. Analyze, with an informed perspective, aspects of international global systems including one or more of the following: culture, language, economics, politics, history, environment, geography, health.
6. Describe the global interdependence of two or more of the following: people, institutions, resources and the natural world.
7. Discuss a variety of world views including attitudes, values, norms, or beliefs of other global cultures.
8. Organize and prepare written essays and research papers about the world’s living religions.

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