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Date Posted: 21:56:24 01/08/06 Sun
Author: Annemarie
Subject: I am so excited about my EVIL course

Ok...week one is over. I hate French, but living in Canada it is a necessary evil. Speaking of Evil..I love my course entitled EVIL...outline below. It is so interesing.

The modern world has seen great advances. It has also seen unprecedented acts of evil: colonialism and imperialism, the Holocaust, World Wars, the nuclear arms race, mass starvation, and the environmental crisis that threatens the very existence of life on this planet. None of these events would be possible without the political, economic, and social structures of a modern society.

How do religious communities react to these new forms of evil? This course is a study of a number of religious thinkers who use the social sciences to understand modern societies and the evil they produce. These same thinkers turn to ancient writings, ideas, values, and practices to address the problem of evil in the modern world and come up with some startling and fascinating suggestions. They find that their own communities, beliefs, values, and traditional practices often contribute to the problem! They also find sources of wisdom and goodness in their traditions and offer solutions to the evil they see around them.

Topics will include colonialism, racism, imperialism, war, genocide, economic exploitation, sexism, and the environmental crisis. Our authors include Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Elie Wiesel.

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