Textbook: Jeffrey J. Kripal, Comparing Religions
Read: Kripal, chapter 1, pp. 1-39
Keep a journal of the class discussions and the assigned readings.
In your Journal entries demonstrate your ability to explain critique, challenge (if necessary) and provide definitions and examples of the following key terms:
Axial Age
Anthropomorphism
Polytheism
Diffusion theory
Euhemerism
Platonic Orientalism
Non-local self
Evolutionary monotheism
Cosmotheism
Pantheism
Panentheism
Monotheism
A Scripture
Revolutionary monotheism
Polemics/Apologetics
Canon formation
Orthodoxy
Heterodoxy
Implicit Theology
Pagan
Neoplatanism
Gnostics