RS 373Folk Religion: Custom, Belief and Ritual
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1993–94
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1993–94 (before that, 1974–75 to 1977–78 used the number for Religion and Social Change in the Third World); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course examines ethnographically aspects of religious practice and expression, emphasizing understandings of symbol and belief. Taking the perspective of folklore theory, it looks particularly at socio-cultural contexts, performances, practitioners and expressive creations.
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1993–94 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1974–75 to 1993–94, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1993–94 4 calendars
This course examines ethnographically aspects of religious practice and expression, emphasizing understandings of symbol and belief. Taking the perspective of folklore theory, it looks particularly at socio-cultural contexts, performances, practitioners and expressive creations.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
Not in the 1978–79 to 1988–89 calendars.
1974–75 to 1977–78 4 calendars
Another title: Religion and Social Change in the Third World, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
A study of basic issues that have arisen in the interaction of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity with politics and social change in selected areas of. the Third World.
Fall term
Prerequisite: RS. 110*/111*" or consent of the instructor
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.