3.00 Credits
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. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..