Title: Course Content
Course: REL 201 RTZ > Section: Week 1 - Introductions, Introductions to the Course and Introductions to Religion

1. The nature of religious experience; philosophy and the problems/challenges of comparing religions
2. Conceptions of God: polytheism, henotheism, pantheism, monotheism, theism, deism; the questions of God's existence:  cosmological, teleological, and ontological arguments
3. Conception of humanity's place within the world and cosmos, the questions of immortality, the problem of evil
4. The study of the following religious traditions:

- Indigenous religions
- Native American religious traditions
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Jainism
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Confucianism
- Zoroastrianism
- Shinto
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Marxist ideology as religion