INQ-110 | Who or What is God?

Full Title: Who or What is God?

Topic Description:

People around the world ask questions about the divine and humanity’s relationship to it. In this course, we will use the question, “Who or What is God?” as a starting point to investigate three themes that scholars have identified as key features of humanity’s encounter with the divine, including the concepts of myth, ritual, and God/gods. Using an anthropological approach, we will examine the religious lives of different communities around the world to explore possible answers to the questions "Who or What is God?" and "How do people talk about God/gods and interact with them?" 

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: January 2009