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Mar 15, 2025
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2022-2023 Hill Book (Class of 2026) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 165 - Poetry in World Religions (Cornerstone Seminar)Three Credits
Periodically or As Needed
The first poems are found in the oldest of religious texts. As song, in hymns and psalms, as meditations, in praise and argument, in narrative verse and in calls-to-action. The poetic form allows writer and reader to draw persuasive connections-and distinctions-between internal experience, the social world, the natural world, and a moral or cosmic order. As religious culture continues to transform, poetry remains fertile ground for setting and contesting foundations. This course examines how a range of poets speak to and through religion to engage the deep and incendiary matters from ancient to contemporary times: cosmic meditations, cross-cultural tensions; science and health; sex and gender relations; global and local politics; war and the weapons of war; modernity vs. traditionalism; the fate of the earth; and of course the meaning of life and death. Poems will address a variety of world traditions and poetic perspectives, including but not limited to: Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, Indic religions, Judaism, and Buddhism. Only open to students that have not completed the Literature Cornerstone requirement.
General Education Attribute(s): First-Year Seminar, Literature Cornerstone
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