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Dec 14, 2025
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HUMN 6358 - Trances and Dances: Investigations Into Indigenous Religious Life
Credits: 3
Introduces students to the religious beliefs and practices of several non-Western (or pre-Western) indigenous cultures such as the Australian aboriginals, African tribal peoples, and native North and South Americans. Through readings, videos, lectures, classroom discussions, and in-class activities, students examine such phenomena as spirit possession, sacrifice, masks, shamanism, out-of-body experiences, spiritual healing, visions, and pilgrimages. Students delve into the psychological and social functions of trance, exorcism, and magic and explore the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural religious contact. They also seek out the hidden meanings of myths and dreams. May be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities; global studies (non-Western); American studies.
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