Dr. Pamela Hood | PHIL 525

Lecture Notes - (Be sure to check the course calendar and furlough page.)

FYI: I will post some of my religion papers online. Most will not relate to our course work this semester. But you may enjoy (?) reading them. They will be at profhood.com, under Research. (Note: This is not on profpam.com)

Unit 1

Academic Study of Religion

Note: These are my lecture notes from my PHIL 502 World Religions course. For just about all my religion courses everybody starts out with this "bootcamp". The internal links may not work. Just cycle back to this page, or start over at profpam.com.

• Tylor (8/25)
• Frazer (8/25)
• Freud (8/25)
  
  
• Jung and Otto (8/27)
• Durkheim (8/27)
• James (8/27)
• Eliade (8/27)
• The "isms" - substantivism, functionalism, and reductionism (9/1)

Unit 2

9/24

James

• Mysticism - Conclusion

T 9/29

Philosophical arguments and religion

• Please review the Logic and argumentation lecture (from PHIL 101 - Intro to Philosophy)
• Example of a reductio ad absurdum argument
• Anselm's Ontological argument
• How to read an article from Thomas Aquinas' Summa
• Thomas Aquinas' Five Proofs for the existence of God
• Way #1
• Way #2
• Way #3
• Way #4
• Way #5

T 10/6

• Kierkegaard - overview

TH 10/8

• James - Healthy Mindedness

TH 10/15

• Schleiermacher overview

Updated 18 October 09