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Apr 25, 2024
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RLST189C PO - American Mysticism: East Asian Reigions, Psychedelics, and the Religion of No ReligionWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
Instructor(s): S. Hurley
Credit: 1
This course will investigate the history of the American countercultural religious milieu of the 1950s, 60s and 70s and its significance in the development of what has come to be known as the “religion of no religion.” It will examine the ways that Buddhist and Daoist thought and praxis, psychedelic drug use, alternative psychoanalysis, and Western scientific studies of the paranormal were fused together in an effort to create a way of knowing and being that could engender liberation. It will also assess the critique levied at intellectuals of this period for merely appropriating Buddhist, Daoist, and other religious and philosophical ideas, texts, and practices for their own personal and political agendas-agendas ultimately rooted in the Orientalist discourse of nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship on Asian traditions. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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