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East Asian Religions: Traditions and Transformations
RELIGION 130

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as EASTD 141, Harvard Divinity School as HDS 3010

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Description

This course provides an introduction to the study of East Asian religions. It covers the development of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Shinto. It is not a comprehensive survey, but is designed around major conceptual themes, such as ritual, image veneration, mysticism, meditation, death, and category formation in the study of religion. The emphasis throughout the course is on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and East Asian religions in particular.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Course Component Lecture
Subject Religion
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students