What Makes a Life Worth Living? Religion and the Modern World

Modernity is often imagined as a conflict between secular and religious modes of being in the world, when, in reality, most humans on the planet today consider themselves religious while also participating in the goods (and ills) of modernity. This class will explore religion in the modern world through the particular question: what makes a life worth living? This class will pursue these central aims under the direction of the guiding question – “what makes a life worth living.” What does it mean for a life to go well?