ASST 105 Value and Tradition in Asian Civilizations (3)

The course will explore the motivating values found in the religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and shamanism. Designed around major conceptual themes, such as diversity of religious experience; asceticism and monastic life; death, the afterlife, and ancestor worship; ritual and image veneration; gender and sexuality; and the effects of modernization on religions today, the course will follow an easterly route from India to China to Japan.
Course Frequency: Occasional