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RELS 144 - Religion, Death, and Afterlife (4)

An introduction to the academic study of religion through examining ideas and practices related to issues of death and concepts of possible afterlife as expressed in various religious traditions as well as popular culture. Among the topics to be examined are religious and philosophical ideas about death and immortality, medical and scientific aspects of death, resurrection and reincarnation, literary journeys into the realms of the afterlife, art and aesthetics, holy figures and bodily relics, paranormal experiences (hauntings, past lives, near death experiences) and portrayals of the undead (e.g., vampires and zombies) in contemporary popular culture. Every other year.