Course Details

The Idea of the Sacred

 

PHRE1-CE9108 / $430
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education: Humanities and Performing Arts

From a faith perspective, sacred reality is independent of human experience--more compelling, higher, and truer. From a secular perspective, sacredness is a quality humans attribute to aspects of the world--a relational notion. Some cross-cultural features of the complex, paradoxical "sacred," reflected in Latin sacer, Hebrew qadosh, and Polynesian tapu, are "set-apartness" from the ordinary world, endowment with power, and duality, inspiring both dread and reverence. Read major thinkers who examine the sacred across diverse cultures and different facets of life.

No grades issued.

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Related Subject Areas: Religion, Philosophy, Humanities

 

 

 

Section 1

 

Thursday 2:00pm-3:40pm
February 9 - March 22

Thursday 2:00pm-3:40pm
March 29

Thursday 2:00pm-3:40pm
April 5 - April 19

No class 3/15

10 Sessions

Instructor: Harriet Lutzky  
Location: Midtown Center