PHIL 12  Comparative Religions

The Comparative Religions course introduces the student to Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

Religions developed in different ways to answer some of the meaningful questions in life. Read essays from the believers of each faith. Students will consider questions for each religion, visit places of worship and explore cultural practices.

• What is sacred?
• How does one find meaning in life?
• How should we view death?

Interesting Links

World Religions

http://www.comparative-religion.com/

The Association of Religion Data Archives
http://www.pluralism.org/resources/links/index.php

Hinduism

Buddhism

Sacred Text Tripatica

P. A. Payutte

Islam

www.princeton.edu/~humcomp/alkhaz.html

San Joaquin Valley Moslem web site

Judaism

www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

Christianity

www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html

www.hti.umich.edu/relig/mormon.html

http://rosetta.reltech.org/ECanon/ECanon.html