Course Number

ANTH 4440

Course Title

Religion, Magic and Witchcraft

Course Date

Fall 2015

Course Level

4000

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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