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May 15, 2024
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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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SOA 327 - Witchcraft, Magic & Religion Credits 3 Lecture / 3 hours per week Requirements: Prerequisite: SOA 101 or SOA 111 or SOA 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, WGS 327 Graded
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