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SS-218G Salvation from Despair: Spiritual Awakenings in the Ancient World

3 Credits

  • SS-218G-01

    Thursday

    2:00 pm – 4:50 pm

    Information Science Center, 103

  • SS-218G-02

    Thursday

    5:00 pm – 7:50 pm

    Information Science Center, 103

  • SS-218G-03

This course is a history of the creation and development of seven major religious, philosophical, and spiritual traditions that transformed the ancient world from China to Greece during the Axial Age (c.800-200 BCE). Students will examine scriptures and seminal writings that provided the founding truths of Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Greek philosophy and science, and that enriched and deepened the older Hindu and Hebrew traditions.