Course Description

RE340 Quest and Conquest 0.5

A study of religious quests and their connection to conquest or other forms of cultural expansionism and religious imperialism. Among the prominent themes of the course are: intercultural respect and disrespect; appropriation and repatriation; cross-cultural learning and conflict; anthropological fraud; pilgrimage; ethnic performance; religious tourism; religious syncretism; missionization; interfaith borrowing and theft.

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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