GL/RLST 4275 3.00

Beliefs In The Digital Age: Religion, Faith and Spirituality

This course is an interdisciplinary investigation of how religion is mediated in culture through mass media (television, radio, the press) as well as through electronic media (internet, video games) and popular culture (film). To de-construct cultural texts through significant practices of communication, within symbolic universes and the symbolic interpretation of meaning. To describe individual religious experiences as their meanings are mediated and re-created through media communication. To look at the role of religious institutions in the mediation processes of society and culture. To observe how religion changes the face of late-modernity and participates to the re-enchantment of the world.

RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Multiple

Cross-listed as GL/SOCI 4275 3.00.

Course Category: Self, Society and Other