REL 494

Fall 2025 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Oct 20-Dec 10

Topics in Religious Thought

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Various topics in religious thought.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated as topics vary.

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REL 494 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	77451	Lecture-Discussion	MA1	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	162 Noyes Laboratory	Ali, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Medicine and the Sacred Section Info: Medicine and the Sacred Course Description This course is a comparative exploration of medical and healing traditions and their religious, spiritual and cultural intersections. Students will gain an understanding the systems of medicine in China, India, and the Middle East, including the histories that inform those traditions. Within the frameworks of Chinese Medicine and its related disciplines, Greco-Islamic Medicine, Ayurveda and Western Medicine, we will discuss some of the following topics: divine healers and medical authority, etiology and pathology, religious pharmacology and drugs, mental health, spiritual states, among others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	77452	Lecture-Discussion	MA2	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	162 Noyes Laboratory	Ali, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Medicine and the Sacred Section Info: Medicine and the Sacred Course Description This course is a comparative exploration of medical and healing traditions and their religious, spiritual and cultural intersections. Students will gain an understanding the systems of medicine in China, India, and the Middle East, including the histories that inform those traditions. Within the frameworks of Chinese Medicine and its related disciplines, Greco-Islamic Medicine, Ayurveda and Western Medicine, we will discuss some of the following topics: divine healers and medical authority, etiology and pathology, religious pharmacology and drugs, mental health, spiritual states, among others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.