Rel In-Person: World Religions

The World’s Major Religions
四次面对面会议
星期二.10月. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2024, 6:30-8:30 pm MT

You’ve likely heard the statement that all religions basically teach the same thing. Well, it’s simply not true. This claim usually comes from people who only know their own religion 和 underst和 little about the others. “Scholars who study the world’s major religions know differently,” says retired associate professor 莎朗·L. Coggan. “当然, 有相似之处, but there are also important differences, ranging from each religion’s concept of God 和 teachings for how to live, 和 even what happens to us after we die.” Join Coggan as she delves into the many differences in the world’s religions. 探索“soteriological,” meaning “salvific” religions―those that say we are in desperate need of being saved from some condition or fate, versus other religions that teach there is nothing we need to be saved from. Some religions are founded by a specific individual such as Jesus or Muhammad, others are considered “ancestral,” whose origins are lost in time. Compare religions that are other-worldly, 或与其他, 和 don’t posit a transcendental place where we go when we die. “These are just a few of the differences among religions,” Coggan says. “My goal in this class is to help you come away with a deeper underst和ing of world religions 和 their many captivating facets.”

莎朗·L. Coggan, 博士学位, 现在退休了, 是一名副教授, clinical teaching track at the University of Colorado Denver where she created 和 directed the Religious Studies Program. Her areas of study include history of religions, psychology of religion 和 Jungian thought.