Class #5, 9/28/11

**Rosters, etc.

**Due tonight:  Chapter 3 Packet.  If you've lost track of it, click here.

**Finish with presentation on Hinduism.  See previous class agenda.

**For further discussion, here's a further presentation on Indian history assembled by a native of India.

**For next week, 10/5/11:  Read Chapter 4, Buddhism--The Farther Shore.

------>The Chapter 4 packet will be due the following week, 10/12/11, but here is the link if you wish to get started.

New research on the primal humans

This research using DNA prompts revision of the "dispersion theories" about the global migrations of early human beings.  Here's the link.

Class #4, 9/21/11

**Roster, etc.

**Due tonight:  Reading Chapter 3, Hinduism.

**A little more background:  The History of Religion--short version.

**Music

**Presentation:


**For next class, 9/28:  Completed Hinduism packet--see last week's post for link.
----->AND, feel free to begin reading Chapter 4:  Buddhism:  The Farther Shore.

Class #3, 9/14/11

**Roster, etc.

**Due tonight:  Read and complete the packet for Chapter 2:  The Sacred in Nature.

**Tonight's Presentation:  The Primal Religions.

------>Music.

------>Visual presentation:



**For next week (9/21):  Read Chapter 3, Hinduism:  Life against Time.

------>The Hinduism packet will be due 9/28, but if you want to get started on it, it is here.

Class #2, 9/7/11

**Roster, etc.
**Due tonight:  Read and complete packet for Chapter 1--"Understanding the World's Religious Heritage."

**Tonight's presentation:  The modern study of the world's religions--


**For next week: 
------>Read Chapter 2:  The Sacred in Nature.
------>Complete Chapter 2 Packet.

Wednesday, 8/31/11 No class tonght, as planned.

Please use the time to complete the reading and work assigned last week.  Thanks!

Welcome! Class #1, 8/24/11

**Agenda for Tonight:

1. Welcome/General Orientation/Roster Check.
2. Textbook and materials.
3. Course overview, syllabus and calendar.
4. Finding Things.
5. Philosophy applied to the study of religions.
1. What is religion?
1. Kaufmann quotes.
2. What is religion FOR?
1. Tolkein handout.
6. Survey the world's religions by size, region and age.
7. Handouts and assignment for Class #2, 9/7.
8. Complete info sheet and survey.

**Basic Resources:

------->The text for this class:
Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions
Robert S. Ellwood and Barbara A McGraw
Ninth Edition, 2009
Pearson/Prentice Hall.
ISBN-13: 978-0-136-01761-5

------->Syllabus/Course Description.

------->Calendar.

**Next Week:  August 31, No Class. (Instructor has a contractual conflict.)

**For September 7:
------->Read: Text, Chapter 1--"Understanding the World's Religious Heritage"
------->Do: Chapter 1 Packet--Handout: it's here.