RELI 250 - MEDITATION, MYSTICISM & MAGIC
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Department: Religion
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDITATION, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC
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The course moves between Buddhist religious and Western psychological literature, analyzing these as models of human development, as guides to a meditative life or critiques of it, and above all as expressions of deeply rooted cultural proclivities. Reading Freud, Milarepa, Norbu, Obeyesekere, Sutric and Tantric literature, Taylor and Wangyal.
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Also offered as ASIA 250.