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REL100.002
Introduction to the Study of Religion



Professor
Dr. Rob Stephens
E-mail: robert.stephens@ua.edu
Office: Manly 202
Office Hours: tba
Class Hours: MTWRF 12:30-2:30 Classroom: Manly 207


About Online Readings

Some of the online readings for this course are posted in the form of PDF files (Portable Document Format), some of which are stored on the Department's "secure" server, and are therefore not freely available on the Internet.

To open such files you must click on the links and, when prompted, enter your Bama ID and Password.

If you have forgotten your Bama ID, but know your Campus Wide ID (CWID), then please go here.

Those who need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 to open PDFs (a free software available on the web and which is already installed on all campus computers) can go here.

Note: larger PDFs can take a long time to download (due to a slow Internet connection) and a long time to print (depending on your printer). Some students may therefore wish to download these files in a computer lab on campus, and then either print them there or store them on a floppy disk or zip/junk drive (to read/print them later at home).

This course 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.


Fall 2005 Syllabus section 002 (PDF)

Fall 2005 Syllabus section 004 (PDF)

Spring 2006 Syllabus section 001 (PDF)

Interim 2006 Syllabus section 001 (PDF)

Summer I 2006 Syllabus section 001 (PDF)


Readings

Russell McCutcheon, "Insides, Outsides, and the Scholar of Religion"

Russell McCutcheon, "What is the Academic Study of Religion" (PDF)

Malory Nye, Religion: The Basics, chapter one (PDF)