Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MUMMIES, MARTYRS, RELICS, AND TOMBS: OF THE DEAD IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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? In this course, we will explore 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.