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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2023 |
Registration ID | EALCH247B001 |
Course Title | Death and the Afterlife in East Asian Religions |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | East Asian Languages and Cultures |
Instructor | Glassman,Hank |
Times and Days | M 07:30pm-10:00pm
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Room Location | STO14 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2445 This course engages the rich textual and visual traditions of China, Korea, and Japan to illuminate funerary and memorial practices and explore the terrain of the next world. Students will learn about the culturally constructed nature of religious belief and come to see the complexity and diversity of the influences on understandings of life and death. The course is not a chronological survey, but rather alternates between modern and ancient narratives and practices to draw a picture of the relationship between the living and the dead as conceived in East Asian religions.; Enrollment Limit: 30 Lottery preference: Major and minors by class starting with Seniors. Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, B, A) |
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