Religion 143 - Religion Ancient India

Spring
2021
01
4.00
Maria Heim
TTH 01:30PM-02:50PM
Amherst College
RELI-143-01-2021S
CHAP 101
mrheim@amherst.edu
RELI-143-01,ASLC-144-01

(Offered as RELI 143 and ASLC 144) This course explores central ideas and practices in the religious and intellectual traditions of India up until the medieval period. We consider the range of available archeological, art historical, and textual evidence for religion in this period, though the course focuses mostly on texts. We will read the classic religious and philosophical literature of the traditions we now call Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Classes will meet in person on campus.  Remote students will either attend class sessions by videochat or will have access to audio recordings of class meetings.  All students, local and remote, will have access to pre-recorded video content.  Local and remote students may be asked to prepare brief presentations on assigned readings to be delivered either in person or by prerecorded video.

Spring semester. Professor M. Heim.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.