PHI 440P BURNING RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY

Many books, and some people, have been consigned to the flames by religious authorities. The course examines various major religious controversies, within and across Western religions as well as between religions and secular movements. Topics may include Talmudic disputes, Christian heresies, Jewish-Christian-Islamic differences, the Maimonides controversy, science versus religion (Galileo, Darwin), modern secular critiques of religion, and religious Zionism and anti-Zionism.