This course covers contemporary trends and issues in religious thought and life, within each of the major religious traditions as well as outside of the major religions. Some of the topics that will be covered in this course include: New Religious Thought in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism; New Religious Movements and Cults; the trend toward fundamentalism; Liberation Theology; Feminist Theology, to name a few. 8/22/2021 - 12/16/2021, Lecture