REL 140 - Ecology and Religion

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirements HU and IL.
This course is an opportunity to study religion both in the classroom and ‘on the ground’ as it is applied in agricultural practices in local community. Students will be equipped with terms and ideas that will help them engage meaningfully with various cultures’ religious approaches to the environment, including those of a local religious farming community. We will explore questions regarding definitions of ‘nature’ and ‘the wild’, think about the influence of religion on land use and food production, analyze the role of race and gender in religious environmentalism, and get our hands into the soil working on Monocacy Farms, where all these can be seen at work.