HUM 321: Humanities and Critical Thinking: The Critique of Religion Course Description: In contrast to many philosophy departments where critical thinking is understood almost exclusively as an evaluation of the cogency of arguments and logic, in the humanities ‘critique' involves locating forms of thought within its social and historical contexts. In this course, we will trace the origins of the idea of ‘critical thinking' to a diverse range of often conflicting and mutually incompatible confrontations with religion, in general, and Christianity in particular. Required Texts: |