TRS 176 - Spirituality in Practice: Catholics in America

Upper Division

Prerequisites
TRS 097 or TRS 189.

This course takes a cultural and theoretical approach to religion and focuses on Catholicism as it is experienced and practiced in everyday life. We will explore religion through concepts such as space, time, power, material culture, ritual, and the body, and use these concepts to understand more deeply the experience and practice of spirituality. Throughout the course, we will pay attention to the religious forms that develop when cultures come together, collide, or in other ways interact, and the relationship between religion and race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Students will have the opportunity to use theoretical ideas developed in the class to analyze practices such as religious pilgrimage and altar-building, and the role of material culture and the body in religious experience.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
TE - Theological Explorations; AD - American Diversity

Cross-Listing
The course is cross-listed with Ethnic Studies.

Course credits: 1