Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MUMMIES, MARTYRS, RELICS, AND TOMBS: REMAINS OF THE DEAD

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What societies do with dead bodies expresses more about the living than the dead. This course explores how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious communities have expressed, negotiated, and contested religious identities through the practices and discourses surrounding the treatment of human corpses. Counts toward the Jewish Studies minor.