REL 80.04 Sacred Time
What is time? Was there a beginning to the world? When did the world begin? Will it end? How will it end? Can we control time? Does anything exist beyond life and death? All cultures have struggled with these perennial questions, and we continue to do so today. Religious traditions have offered us many different answers to these questions. This course examines various understandings of time in several religious cultures: Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism.