ASNST-272 Hinduism and Healing
How do Hindus understand and pursue health? To what extent do historical, regional, class-based, gender-based, age-based, and other differences impact the stakes, objects, and methods of healing? How can healing help us understand what it means to be or become Hindu? We will investigate these idiosyncrasies and overlaps by considering various instruments of healing. We will examine five such instruments in this course, without any presumption that these are the only five: healing with medicine, with persona, with place, with bodies, and with posture. Due to the timeliness of the topic, the sixth unit departs from the “instrument” model and instead considers Hindu responses to COVID-19.
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
RELST-272