Overview
Consider the role of media in the creation, development, and transmission of religion(s), as well as the challenges posed to modern religiosities in a digital era. By tracing ‘the religious’ in contemporary popular culture, students will identify and analyze implicit and explicit religious manifestations in film, music, and other ‘popular’ media. Students will gain religious literacy and opportunities for intellectual citizenship and interfaith exchange by exploring the ways media impacts, represents, or articulates forms of contemporary religiosity, as well as sympathetic and antagonistic portrayals of religions in our increasingly diverse and variable world.” At the conclusion of this course, what does this description mean to you? How have the opportunities outlined in this description been facilitated in the course?