INQ-120 | Love Religions

Full Title: Love Religions: Mysticism and Morality in the World’s Religions

Topic Description:

This course will examine some of the ways major religious mystical traditions have thought about love, both as a way of describing the divine, but also as a way to imagine embodying the divine through examined moral living in the world. We will limit ourselves generally to reading introductory essays about Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist/Confucian theories of love and associated moral practices as well as essays about Jewish, Christian and Islamic theories and practices. We will also read limited selections of primary texts from Asia and from the Abrahamic traditions. In addition to text-critical work, we will examine cultural expressions around the world of love in action, of divine love as a mode leading an examined moral human life.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2009