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IS 302 - Religion & Economics (3)

This course will examine the longstanding rhetoric used by many cultures to connect one’s wealth with one’s moral, political, or spiritual status.  Drawing from a wide variety of global examples, the course will consider how religion and political economy together have been used as tools in shaping cultural concepts of wealth, poverty, morality, work, and human dignity. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: global liberation theologies; attitudes regarding social justice; the ethics of capitalism, nationalism, and militarism; branding and advertising religion; the prosperity gospel; Marxism and Christian socialism; the Protestant Ethic; Hindu caste and class; Occupy Wall Street, etc. May not receive credit for both IS 302 and IS 203 . 2020 CORE: Interdisciplinary Studies, Global Studies. FA.