SOCL 240 - S/Sociology of Religion

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences

This course examines the relationship between religion and society and between religion and individual experiences. Topics include theoretical explorations into nature, origins, and functions of religion; interpretations of the place of religion and ritual in social life; analyses of interaction between religion and other institutions of society, like economics ,politics and family; and examination of religious change; and consideration of the interaction between religion and psyche, religion and socialization, and religion and inequality. Offered every year.