REL100.900
Introduction to Religious Studies
Distance Education

Professor
Dr. Mark McCormick
cmmccormick@bama.ua.edu

Online Distance
Education REL Courses

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Description

Examines the function of religion in culture; as a Core Humanities course, the goal is for all students to learn to define, describe, and compare in a non-evaluative manner so as to discover similarities and differences in various forms of human behavior considered to be religious.

Books (required)

Smith
The World's Religions
Harper: San Francisco
ISBN: 62508113

Ellwood
Many Peoples, Many Faiths, 8th Edition
Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131178075