2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 259 - Religion, Identity and Violence in a Globalizing World

Type of Course: Lecture
Examines the nature of religion and the interconnections among religious identity, political violence, and globalization in the contemporary world. It will examine conflicts that arise between groups with different religious identities as well as conflicts between religions and secularization. It will consider how globalization has failed to satisfy so many people in the world, why religion has been raised as an alternative, and why the religious rejection of secularization has been so violent.

Cross Listed: IDCE 369 

Instructor: Mr. Fisher

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: William Fisher, Ph.D. Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and Environment Department