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TPHL 630 - Religion and Incarceration

3 credits
This course will investigate the way certain religions—predominately Christianity and Islam, but also Judaism and Buddhism where pertinent—talk about prison and the prisoner in light of a variety of basic religious themes, as well as the way those in prison talk about these religious themes and the religions that employ them in light of the experience of imprisonment. These themes include: redemption, reconciliation, freedom and bondage, spirituality and embodiment, justice and ethical responsibility, the nature and character of the divine, religious scripture, religious practice. All level theology students are welcomed. This course is not repeatable. Offered Spring 2016.


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