This course takes up the study of religion and spirituality in relation to the natural world. Students will investigate how religious traditions have represented and integrated the natural world in religious life. Focus is given to themes of creation, evolution, sacred place, stewardship, and religiously-rooted responses to environmental crises. The course also explores the roles animals have played across history in religious texts and practice, namely as victims of sacrifice and as metaphors and agents of divine power.
RELG 223: Religion, Animals, & the Environment
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