Fall 2009 Dear Student,
Thank you for your interest in CPRL 300 Methods of Studying Religion.
This course is primarily intended and required for students who are Majors or Minors in Religious Studies. This course is offered each Fall and should be taken in your Junior or Senior year.
All students must have completed CPRL 110 Religions of the World OR 105 Sacred Quest for Meaning (or an equivalent course from a Community College) and have junior or senior status to register.
If your Major or Minor is not Religious Studies, you must have the consent of the instructor to register; please contact me at: pLevesque@Fullerton.edu
The complete syllabus is now available at this link. Please print the syllabus and bring it to the first class.
There will be two required Text Books, Available at Little Professor Book Center, 725 N. Placentia Ave. Fullerton, 714-996-3133, or at your favorite on-line book seller.
John Hinnells, ed. The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 0-415-3311-3.
Daniel Pals. Eight Theories of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-1657-05
Plus, there is a Required Course Reader: The course reader will be available at CopyCo, 2438 E. Chapman (at State College Blvd./between 99¢ Store & BigLots) 714-680-9800. In this course we will read a number of important authors for the study of religion. We will view religious studies as an academic discipline. We will look at the different ways religion is studied by history, sociology, psychology, phenomenology and anthropology.
If you have questions before the course begins, please send me an E-mail at pLevesque@Fullerton.edu You can also contact me at: 657-278-5902
I look forward to seeing you in the course.
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