1 Death's Place in Our Lives; 2 Defining Death; 3 Death, Illusion, and Meaning; 4 Is It Rational to Fear Death?; 5 Understanding and Coping with Grief; 6 Death Rituals and the Corpse; 7 American Death Rituals; 8 Approaches to Dying Well; 9 Judaism on Death and the Afterlife; 10 Death and Hope in Christianity; 11 Islam on Returning to God; 12 Death, Rebirth, and Liberation...

Lectures delivered by Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, who interprets the Old Testament, placing it into legal and literary contexts.

Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the divine. Introduces Hinduism's wealth of gods, terms,...

Surveys the history, traditions, and practice of Judaism from biblical times to today, with explanations of the major aspects of Jewish culture. Focuses on Judaism from within and how it is understood by its adherents, past and present. Covers topics such as the sacred books of Judaism, modes of worship, the calendar and holidays, and rites of passage such as bar and bat mitzva and marriage. Illustrates how Judaism reinvented itself by embracing the...

Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.

"This course introduces principles of physics through their application to everyday life"--Guidebook.

This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.

Twenty-four lectures presenting an overview of world religions from 800 B.C. to 200 B.C.

A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army.