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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

WGS 327 - Witchcraft, Magic & Religion

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: ANT 111 or ANT 113
Offers critical, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives on religion, magic and witchcraft and how people in different cultures conceive of the supernatural. Surveys how scholars have defined religion, symbol and myth and why some practices and beliefs come to be defined as “religions” while others are characterized as “myth”, “sorcery”, or “witchcraft”. Cross-listed with REL 327, SOA 327
Graded