Description
(formerly Harmony and Conflict in Religion and Society)
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 engendered new fear and anger, prompted new courses of action and required the pursuit of new questions, as few other events have in recent American history. This course takes those events as a starting point for examining a host of topics about the troubled relationship between the societies of the Western world and the societies of the Islamic world. The course examines material by both Western and Muslim writers regarding the religious, political, historical, cultural, moral and practical (ends and means) dimensions of this relationship and of the significance of terrorist acts in those wider contexts.