May 28, 2025  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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RELI 015 - (CC, HP) Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions

Semester Hours: 3
Periodically

Introductory course surveying Indian traditions (variously Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, and Jain) with some attention to the religions of China and Japan. Emphasis on tracing two basic lines of Eastern religious practice and thought: sectarian and popular devotionalism on the one hand, and the elite philosophical and meditational traditions on the other.




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