Comparative Religion

What is a Religion?  What should one think about religions other than one's own?    

The Comparative Religion class first discusses the role religion plays in people's lives and then considers the strengths and difficulties in looking at different religious viewpoints. 

• Hinduism 

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Taoism

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Islam 

You will explore questions for each religion. 

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

Finally, you will have an opportunity to visit local places of worship and listen to guest speakers from each faith.  Group projects allow students to listen to music, view clothing and/or eat foods from the various cultures studied.. 

A great start for learning about the various religions is by visiting the COS Library Web site or other Web sites.

COS LIBRARY GUIDE FOR PHIL 12, COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS

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

Confucianism

Taoism

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

 
Lots of talking in this class--join us!