Spirituality and Sensuality
Sacred Objects in Religious Life
Playing drums, telling stories, touching stones, creating wildly colorful altars, dancing, eating and drinking special substances are all basic religious activities. Examples will range across Native American, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish rituals and symbols, and materials will traverse fields from art history to anthropology, philosophy to poetry, science to religious studies. We will toggle between broad theories of religions and specific case studies.
An introductory week will be followed by a week on each of the five senses, and a concluding week. Each week we will incorporate lectures, readings, podcasts, images, and videos, and students will be challenged to spend a little time "offline" and taking notice of the sensual-spiritual elements that make up our cultural life.
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Rating | 3.5★ based on 2 ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 3 - 4 hours per week |
Starts | Mar 1 (479 weeks ago) |
Cost | $25 |
From | Hamilton College, HamiltonX via edX |
Instructor | S. Brent Plate |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Humanities |
Tags | Humanities |
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Rating | 3.5★ based on 2 ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 3 - 4 hours per week |
Starts | Mar 1 (479 weeks ago) |
Cost | $25 |
From | Hamilton College, HamiltonX via edX |
Instructor | S. Brent Plate |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Humanities |
Tags | Humanities |
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