#  Courses 

 



  [### HDS 2798: Introduction to Religion and Ecology

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

**Instructor**: Dan McKanan

“Religion and ecology” is one of the fastest-growing subfields within the study of religion, and our approach to this topic will be broadly “ecological.”



 

   [### HDS 2360: Alternative Spiritualities in the United States

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

**Instructor**: Dan McKanan

This course surveys spiritual practices and movements that have been labeled as metaphysical, esoteric, pagan, occult, harmonial, and New Age.



 

   [### HDS 3099: Earth-Based Spiritualities: An Anthropological Perspective

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2020 

 

**Instructor**: Giovanna Parmigiani

A course in the Anthropology of Religion, with particular focus on contemporary earth-based spiritualities, such as Contemporary Paganism, Wicca, NewAge, and Core-Shamanism.