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REL4046S BUDDHISM Dr Elisabetta Porcu The DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES offers the Honours course - REL4046S BUDDHISM Dr Elisabetta Porcu This course will introduce students to the systematic study of Buddhism. The course will examine Buddhism as a living tradition in its relation to society and culture. Students will be exposed to Buddhist traditions both in their historical and contemporary developments, their schools, texts, and practices. Themes will include monasticism and lay Buddhism, Buddhism and gender, Buddhism and popular culture, Buddhism, art and the media, and the transmission of Buddhism in the West and Africa, as well as Buddhism-based new religious movements. Different traditions will be explored with particular emphasis on East Asian Buddhism.