This course explores fundamental questions regarding conceptions of the divine across religious traditions. In asking the core question, “What is a god?,” the course also explores realms and hierarchies of superhuman powers representing good and evil. Students will examine textual and artistic representations of angels, demons, other superhuman powers and the afterlife, and explore how thought and depictions of these entities emerged and changed over time.
RELG 222: Cosmos & Conflict: A History of God and Satan
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