printer friendly pageRELIGST 149: Finding Utopia: Mysticism, Free Love, and New Religions of the Nineteenth-Century
This class explores radical experiments in 19th-century religious utopias. Ranging from the occult to free love to anarchism, we will encounter diaries from a polyamorous commune, seance accounts of astral travel, a journal from a "Sister of the New Life" striving to create a neighborhood modeled off the fairies that she thought inhabited her body, and theological treatises insisting that spiritual progress could only be achieved scientifically. Sources such as these will help us investigate the connection between religious innovation and concepts that continue to influence us today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Willburn, S. (PI)
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