World Religions
A survey of the world’s major religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions of Asia, those of Africa and the Americas, as well as the three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Course curriculum
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Class Overview
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Class Overview
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How to use this course
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Before we begin...
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Introducing the Study of Religions
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Defining Religion and World View
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Approaches to Religious Studies
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Religious Pluralism
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The Great Monotheistic Religions
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Introducing Judaism
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Introducing Christianity
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Introducing Islam
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Eastern Religions
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Introducing Hinduism
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Introducing Buddhism
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Introducing Shinto
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Introducing Taoism
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Folk and New Religions
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Introducing African Traditional Religions
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Introducing Shamanism and Animism
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Introducing Native American Religion
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Introducing New Religious Movements
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Introducing Neo-Paganism
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Introducing Mormonism
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Introducing Jehovah's Witnesses
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Uniqueness of Christianity
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Historicity of the New Testament
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Jesus Christ
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Image of God
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Hope of the Resurrection
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Worship and Prayer
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Christian Encounter with Religious Others
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Missiological Exegesis and Reflection
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Missiological Theology and Praxis
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Additional Resources
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Before you go...
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Instructors
Professor of Missiological Theology
Michael T. Cooper
Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: The Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.
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Professor of Evangelism
Randy Newman
Dr. Newman earned a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has served in campus ministry for over thirty years. He now teaches at several evangelical seminaries and ministers in a variety of churches. He is currently a senior teaching fellow with The C. S. Lewis Institute in Washington, DC.
Associate Professor of World Religions
Amit Bhatia
Dr. Amit Bhatia (PhD, Intercultural Studies), serves as the director of Corban University’s Bachelor of Science program for Adults In Custody through the Oregon state prison system. He is the author of Engaging Muslims & Islam: Lessons for 21st-Century American Evangelicals (2017). Amit has spent more than 20 years bridging the gap between academia and the church, serving as a pastor in several different multi-ethnic congregations during his years in seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Fully committed to training Christians for ministry and to engaging people from other faiths with the gospel of Jesus Christ, he specializes in courses on missions, world religions, and culture. He is married to Kathryn Richards Bhatia, MDiv, BCC, with whom he shares a love for Indian food, international travel and hiking in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
Associate Professor of Missiology
Warrick Farah
Dr. Farah earned a DMiss from Fuller and is currently working towards a PhD from the Oxford Center of Mission Studies. He is co-editor of Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts (2018) and editor of Motus Dei: The Movement of God and the Discipleship of Nations (forthcoming in 2021). As a missiologist with One Collective, he currently serves in theological education in the Middle East, training Arab world leaders for ministry in the region. His research topics include Muslim Studies, Frontier Missiology, Theology of Mission, and Movements. Warrick has published in journals such as Evangelical Missions Quarterly, International Journal of Frontier Missiology, and Global Missiology.
Assistant Professor of Culture and Media
SeunMin Hong
Dr. Hong earned his PhD from the University of Iowa and a MA in Communication and Culture from Trinity Graduate School.
Professor of Missiology
Gary Fujino
Dr. Fujino earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School focusing on how biblical forgiveness is appropriated differently among expat and Japanese Christians in an intercultural context. He is currently Professor of Diaspora Studies for the online Missional University with a focus on diaspora theory and practice for mission. He is a member of the Global Diaspora Institute, Global Diaspora Network and the North American Diaspora Educators Forum. He formerly served as an evangelist and church planter in Japan and among the Japanese diaspora with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Fujino has written extensively on diaspora both generally and specific to the Japanese context, as well as on church planting and issues of identity, race and ethnicity.