DS 615 Religious Traditions of the Ancient World

Course Description

This course critically examines the idea of religion, and explores it in the context of East and South Asian cultural traditions. The course examines the central concerns of these traditions, and introduces the student to key concepts in faith-based cross-cultural work like contextual theology and redemptive analogies. Although the course does some comparison between the East and South Asian traditions and biblical faith, it emphasizes understanding these traditions. Inductive Bible studies are a part of each lesson.