Department of Religious Studies

REL 231.001

Religious Existentialism

T, R | 11:00-12:15

PRH 207

Challenges common understandings of “meaning” and “self” by surveying classics in this European intellectual movement and then turning to ancient and modern South & East Asian texts to complicate and problematize a variety of traditional existential problems and concepts.

In this course, we will:

• Create a safe space for learning and sharing ideas.
• Familiarize ourselves with the existentialist approach to philosophy.
• Closely read the texts in the existentialist genre of philosophy.
• Formulate the key questions that may be used for existentialist inquiries.
• Closely read contemporary texts from an existentialist perspective.
• Apply existentialist questions to current issues in the study of religion.

Nathan R. B. Loewen

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  Please contact me by email or telephone to arrange an appointment.

• (205) 348-5271
• nrloewen@ua.edu