GE-101 World Religions

Your neighbours, colleagues and relatives may follow other faiths. Learn to describe the world's faiths fairly and in their own terms, and to meet their followers with respect.

This course follows the WWES textbook World Religions. It begins with a simple grid of four questions for studying any faith. Then it uses the grid for the faiths of India, China and Japan, for Judaism and Islam, the faiths of Iran, and the traditional religions of Africa and beyond. It ends with Christianity among the world's religions: how God makes himself known, three Christian views of other religions, and the claims of Christ.

What you will study

• A fair way to study another faith: four questions, and describing it so that its own followers would recognise it
• Hinduism and Buddhism
• Judaism and Islam
• Confucianism, Daoism and Shinto
• Sikhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and the Baha'i faith
• Traditional and tribal religions of Africa and beyond
• How God makes himself known, and three Christian views of other religions
• Meeting neighbours of other faiths, and what to do when invited to a rite or festival

Course materials

• World Religions, a WWES textbook