Calendar, Lessons & Assignments
FALL    2010  Philosophy of Religion  FALL    2010
Philip A. Pecorino, Professor                                              Wednesdays
TOPICS, LESSONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Click on the words "Online text" for the readings, "Discussions" for the topics and "Assignments " for a  description of the assignment.

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TOPIC

OVERVIEWS

Objectives

Discussion Discussion Ends READING

ASSIGNMENT    

1 8-26-10 Introduction / Course outline  Discussion 8-29-10 Outline

Online text CH 1 SCHMIDT ch. 1,2,3         

 Assignment  1 Due 8-29-10
2 8-30-10 Eastern Religions Discussion 9-5-10

Online text CH 2 SCHMIDT ch. 4,5

Assignment  2

 

Due 9-26-10
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
2 9-6-18 Religions of China Powerpoint 9-12-10 Online text CH 2 SCHMIDT h. 6,7

 

Assignment  2 
Confucianism  Discussion
Taoism
2 9-13-10  Western Religions Powerpoint

Discussion

9-19-10 Online text CH 2 SCHMIDT ch. 8,9

 

Assignment  2 
 Judaism   
Christianity   
2 9-20-10   Islam               Discussion 9-26-10 Online text CH 2 SCHMIDT ch.10 Assignment  2  

 

Zoroastrianism Online text CH 2 SCHMIDT appendix  A.B.
Sikhism
Shintoism 
3 9-27-10 Science and Religion          Discussion 10-3-10

Online text CH 3

Assignment  3 Due 10-3-10
4 10-4-10 The Concept of GOD and its Problems Discussion 10-10-10  Online text CH 4 POJMAN IV    
  10-11-10 MID COURSE EVALUATIONS   10-17-10      
4 10-18-10

 

Philosophy of Religion:

Overview

Discussion 10-24-10 Online text CH 4

 

POJMAN I

 

Assignment  4A Due 10-24-10
PROOFS for Existence of God 
REVELATION
ONTOLOGICAL
COSMOLOGICAL
TELEOLOGICAL
4 10-25-10 EXPERIENCE:  DIRECT Discussion 10-31-10  Online text CH 5  POJMAN II Assignment  4B Due 11-7-10 
EXPERIENCE : Psychic Phenomena
4 11-1-10 EXPERIENCE: MIRACLES Discussion 11-7-10  Online text CH 5 POJMAN V Assignment    4 B
5 11-8-10 PROBLEM of EVIL      Discussion 11-14-10 Online text CH 6 POJMAN III Assignment  5

Due 11-14-10

SUMMARY of PROOFS
6 11-15-10 Death, Soul and Immortality Discussion 11-21-10  Online text CH 7 POJMAN VI Assignment  6 Due 11-21-10
7 11-22-10 Religious Language and Worldviews        Discussion 12-5-10  Online text CH 8 POJMAN VII Assignment     7 Due 12-5-10
8 12-6-10 Religion, Values and Ethics        Discussion 12-12-10 Online text CH 9  POJMAN IX  Assignment   8 Due 12-12-10
9 12-13-10 What is Religion: a Definition Discussion 12-19-10 Online text CH 10 Assignment   9

Assignment  10

Due 12-19-10
  12-20-10 Culminating Activities   12-20-10 All papers and revisions are due.   Due 12-20-20

 

REQUIRED TEXTS:  FREE  Online textbook PHILOSOPHY of RELIGION

There is a great deal of material presented in an Online textbook.  All of the assignments can be completed by reading the materials in this online textbook on the internet. It is the required and only text you need.

 SUGGESTED TEXTS:  However, if a learner prefers to have a printed paper text in addition to or instead of the online material,  the two texts below are very good.  The Philosophy text by Pojman would be good for everyone in the course to have.
Patterns of Religion Belmont, CA.:Wadsworth, 1999. ISBN 0534 506 496

by Roger Schmidt, Gene C. Sager, Gerald Carney, Julius J. Jackson, Kenneth Zanca, Albert Muller, Julius Jackson

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Pojman, Louis P. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. 

3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.  ISBN 0-534-52956-9

Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology
by Louis P. Pojman (Editor)
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