RELIGION, GLOBAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH

RELIGST 102

An introduction to the study of religion through the lens of health and health through the lens of religion employing approaches from the humanities and social sciences in conversation with health-related disciplines. It asks questions such as, How do religious peoples understand and live in sickness and health? How do people connect physical well-being to spiritual well-being? Medicine to meaning-making? How does looking at religion in sickness and health provide insight into its roles in a variety of cultures and contexts, globally and locally? How do health and religion connect particularly in situations of social marginalization and immigration? How does religion impact understandings of health and sickness beyond the borders of specific religious communities?

RELIGST 500

Topics may include religion in specific contexts, religion and other disciplines or specific themes in Religious Studies.

RELIGST 401

Topics in religious studies in the social sciences.

RELIGST 101

Foundational and thematic approaches in the academic study of religion applied across global religious systems.

RELIGST 420

Explores why and how religious studies matters as a helpful interpretative field across a variety of topics of interdisciplinary interest and societal concern.