Course Number
Course Title
Religion, Magic and Witchcraft
Course Date
Fall 2015
Course Level
5000
Department/Program
Anthropology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Document Type
Syllabus
Description
This course takes a cross-cultural approach to "religion," religious behavior and practices, worldview, cosmologies, and the "supernatural" in society. Rites of transition (passage), death and afterlife, ritual, religious leaders, traditional curing, religious movements, revitalization, cults, witchcraft, magic, trance, altered states of consciousness, and especially shamanism are critically examined. An investigation of religion is made from a cross-cultural, comparative, anthropological perspective.
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