REL 123 - Sacred Stories

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirements HU, DE and IL.
Sacred texts can take many different forms across and even within religious traditions. Stories, legal writing, genealogies, and even pictures and diagrams, all document the stories of different groups, who they are, what they believe, and what is most important to them. In this course we will look comparatively at the texts of a variety of traditions, considering their content, context, and also how these canons developed. We will also consider what goes into the determination of a “sacred” collection: what is included, what is left out, who decides, and the controversies that certain texts may stir. This course alone satisfies the IL requirement.