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Religious Studies 2295A/B
HOLY GROUND: SACRED SPACE IN PUBLIC PLACES
Using the insights of social geographers, scholars of violence and culture, ritual studies and popular religiosity, this course will look at the growing phenomena of roadside shrines, urban memorials and the use of natural landscape as places where human ritual, religious faith, and cultural needs create new places for making remembrance.