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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RTS 3100 - Contemplation & Compassion: A Course in Meditation Practice

Credits: 4
This is a course in which participants practice meditating. It also entails some study and conversation about meditating its relationship to prayer, to religion, to ideas about God, to what may be disclosed about human beings by the act of meditating, the relationship of meditativeness (contemplativeness) to compassion and some comparative perspectives on the contemplative stream in some world religions.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Instructor.
Fulfills: Second institutional requirement in religious and theological studies. X in LS Core.