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Sep 17, 2024
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RST 270 - Modern Western Pagan Thought Credits: 3 Description Exploration of beliefs, values, and ethics of the modern western Pagan community. Includes concepts of deity, nature, magic, ethics, existence, suffering, evil, death, and ecstasy.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Develop a definition of nature-based spirituality.
- Analyze how beliefs are developed and how they define behavior.
- Compare and contrast ideas and values that unite a variety of modern western Pagan groups.
- Analyze and synthesize how modern western Pagan ethics are developed and how they are applied.
- Understand the modern western Pagan concepts of life and death.
- Analyze the mechanics and theory of magic and ritual as used by modern western Pagans.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and writing in evaluating and analyzing spiritual beliefs and practices within historical, sociological, anthropological and philosophical frameworks.
- Understand how modern western Pagans explain the existence of suffering and evil.
- Acknowledge, respect, and understand the diversity of spiritual expression in the modern western world.
- Organize researched material into a paper using documentation and a bibliography.
Prerequisite: None Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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