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Undergraduate College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate College Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

REL 212 - Sacred Texts of Asia


A study of some of the major religious traditions that have emerged in South and East Asia. Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism will be explored by considering representative scriptural texts and subsequent commentary traditions as a way to uncover their respective answers to fundamental questions about ultimate reality, humanity and salvation.

Credits 4



Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities

Foundation
Beyond the West

Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities