REL 356 : World Religions

Topics:

• Sex and Hinduism: Religious ideas and significance of Kama Sutra
• The meaning of reincarnation: hope for change or fatalistic?
• An extended examination of one of the main gods
• Widow Burning:  Hinduism or custom?
• The third eye: what is it, how does it open, what’s its function?
• Fundamentalism and violence: focus on a particular event/group
• Reforming Hinduism – find a specific individual or event
• Rabindranath Tagore – How poetry can be religiously influential
• Gandhi: Hindu Reformer or Revolutionary?