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Texas Christian University RELI 10043
Understanding Religion: Life Worth Living
Tish Duncan is an associate professor of religion at Texas Christian University, specializing in early Christianity and the reception history of the Bible.
What makes a life worth living—and how have humans across cultures tried to answer that question?
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understanding religion: Life Worth Living
RELI 10043
Texas Christian University
Taught by Tish Duncan
Course Description
This course introduces students to the vital role of religion in human experience. Through case studies, readings, lectures, and multimedia demonstrations, students will learn about the various relations between religion, culture, and society.
Section Description
What does it mean to live well? What is worth wanting and pursuing? What can lend meaning to this mortal life we live? This course is designed to provide a laboratory for considering a variety of possible answers to questions as fundamental and important as these. In preparation for class sessions, participants will read a selection of classic and contemporary texts from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Stoicism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In class, participants will join in dialogue aimed at understanding and evaluating claims and perspectives encountered in the readings. The culminating assignment of the semester will ask students to describe their own present understanding of what matters most and what constitutes a life worth living.
understanding religion: Life Worth Living
RELI 10043
Texas Christian University
Taught by Tish Duncan
Course Description
This course introduces students to the vital role of religion in human experience. Through case studies, readings, lectures, and multimedia demonstrations, students will learn about the various relations between religion, culture, and society.
Section Description
What does it mean to live well? What is worth wanting and pursuing? What can lend meaning to this mortal life we live? This course is designed to provide a laboratory for considering a variety of possible answers to questions as fundamental and important as these. In preparation for class sessions, participants will read a selection of classic and contemporary texts from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Stoicism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In class, participants will join in dialogue aimed at understanding and evaluating claims and perspectives encountered in the readings. The culminating assignment of the semester will ask students to describe their own present understanding of what matters most and what constitutes a life worth living.
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