SOC 264Sociology of Religion
- Faculty
- Arts
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1980–81 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An examination of the nature of religious experience, the elements of religious group life, the ways in which religions are a source of social stability and peace as well as of social change and conflict, and the development of new and alternative forms of religious activity.
As printed in the 1993–94 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: SOC 107 or consent of instructor
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1980–81 to 1994–95, 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.
1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars
An examination of the nature of religious experience, the elements of religious group life, the ways in which religions are a source of social stability and peace as well as of social change and conflict, and the development of new and alternative forms of religious activity.
Prereq: SOC 107 or consent of instructor
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1980–81 to 1992–93 13 calendars
Religion is defined broadly and its relation to phenomena like totalitarian movements, psychoanalysis and drug experience examined. The features common to all religions are explained, viz myth, dogma, church, ritual, ethics and religious experience.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit