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Originally Posted by Azure
Physcology course, perhaps?
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Sure, I guess.
I'm of two minds on this. I agree with cheese that when you include religion in an educational curriculum, the question becomes "whose religion"--and in a country as diverse as Canada or the US, this is an important question, and not one where you can let the largest minority rule. The other thing is that a scholastic approach to religion might tend to take an abstract and analytical approach to it--by looking at how religions are formed, what powers their institutions tend to take on, etc. etc. People who want
theology to be part of the curriculum will no doubt be disappointed by that.
As it happens, I talk a lot about religion in one of the classes I teach--in part because I teach early American lit, and there's so much nonsense out there about the religious views of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, etc. that I feel I need to correct so that these kids know where they came from--and also because like it or not, religion IS an important topic in the foundational literatures of the USA. But we don't do it in a theological, ethical or moral sense--we look at how the foundational principles of the new America shaped the religious views of the framers.