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SOCI 322. Sociology of Religion

Cross listed with: REL 322  
Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 001565

This course is a sociological analysis of the nature, function, and structure of religion. Survey of the relationship between religion and society: the social nature of religious phenomena, the interaction between religious beliefs and practices and other arenas of secular societies, the social functions of religion, and the way religion changes and is changed by secular society.