Religion J-Term 2021 and Spring 2021 Courses Offered
Learn about this course and others being offered J-Term 2021 and Spring 2021 by the Religion Department.
To explore how humans understand and experience the sacred, the self, and the world.
To celebrate the complexity and variety within religious life and thought.
To cultivate skills of reading, speaking, and writing.
To share in the delight of asking--and even risking answers to--questions about the meaning of life and the sources of human and social transformation.
To experience the knowledge that arises from an appreciation of the place of religion in human experience.
The study of Religion can provide excellent preparation for a variety of careers, such as law, teaching, counseling, business, journalism, politics, writing, medicine, and the arts. Find courses here.
Learn about this course and others being offered J-Term 2021 and Spring 2021 by the Religion Department.
Padilioni observed that some organizers planned their activism while being mindful of astrological transits. And spiritual and political movements have a long history of coinciding, he said.
Living through a time like this, Padilioni said, "when many institutions have been called into question, has made us reassess what truth means. Firm boundaries around truth, he said, have disappeared. “2020 has totally demonstrated [when] the authority of truth is gone,” Padilioni began, “and when there are no material institutions that seem to embody that, there becomes a strong impulse within people to seek out and express themselves and to make connections in other ways."
James Padilioni is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Postdoctoral Fellow at Swarthmore College
The Stories of Engaged Scholarship section of the Lang Center Newsletter recently featured highlights from the Summer 2019 ChesterSemester Program. The ChesterSemester Program is a transcript-notated interdisciplinary program on social change with a community-based learning (CBL) internship component and is coordinated by Department of Religion's Mark Wallace. Pictured is Neesa Levy '21