Religion, Medicine & Suffering in the West (173-0-20)

Instructors

Robert Orsi
847 4675175
Crowe Hall, 1860 Campus Drive, 4-141

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-335: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course explores what religion(s), primarily Catholicism (although I will make references to other religious traditions as we go along), have made of the body-in-pain, what religion may offer to people in pain to assist them in understanding and living with their illness, and how religious people have used physical pain for specific ends, religious, social, and political. Central to the work of the course is understanding pain itself as a phenomenon and thinking about how culture generally, religion in particular, shapes the pain experience. The course counts toward Religion, Health and Medicine (RHM) religious studies major concentrations. The enrollment is restricted to religious studies majors and minors, or by instructor consent.

Class Attributes

Ethics & Values Distro Area