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Wisdom from World Religions

Presented by Kenneth Rose

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COURSE AT A GLANCE

An open course for open minds

Wisdom from World Religions is a 6-week, 100% free online course open to anyone, everywhere. With one of the world’s leading professors as your guide, you’ll study spiritual wisdom from around the globe.

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GUIDING QUESTIONS

  1. Does life have an ultimate meaning?
  2. Is science the ultimate guide to the deepest truth of life?
  3. Does God, or a divine reality, exist?
  4. What practices can bring God, or a divine reality, into your own experience?
  5. Is death the end of life?

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  1. The basic teachings of the world's major religions, and what distinguishes them from one another
  2. How Sir John Templeton contributed to the study of spirituality
  3. How to apply spiritual practices suggested by Sir John Templeton
  4. How to assess claims about spiritual realities made by the various religions

Clear & inspiring answers to many of life’s big questions

Six weeks of spiritual enrichment, on your schedule.

COURSE
ACTIVITIES

Using each week’s study guide, readings from the course textbook, and short videos, you’ll gain insight into the wisdom of the world’s great faith traditions.

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Begin each week by thoughtfully reading the study guide, where you will find a spiritual law, learning objectives, and suggested readings from the course textbook.

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Watch the video lectures attentively. Each class session contains about 40 minutes of video. 

ENGAGE

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You will be invited to engage in a spiritual practice suggested by the instructor. 

REFLECT

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To get the most out of this course, keep a journal of your responses to the discussion questions in the study guide.

COURSE
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Click here to access this week’s study guide, where you will find learning objectives and further guidance to enrich your experience with each video.

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Click here to access this week’s study guide, where you will find learning objectives and further guidance to enrich your experience with each video.
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About Your Professor

Influenced as much by the Bhagavad Gita as by Thomas Merton and the Buddha, Professor Kenneth Rose has engaged in a lifelong quest to understand and practice spirituality in light of the most sublime texts in the world’s wisdom traditions. Now, this award-winning teacher will guide you on your own spiritual journey.

Dr. Rose holds an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA) and emeritus professor of philosophy and religion at Christopher Newport University. His publications include Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Pluralism: The Future of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) and numerous academic articles, reviews, and popular publications.

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© 2019 Kenneth Rose. Excluding other copyrighted, public domain, Creative Commons materials and proprietary material owned by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. All rights reserved.

The development of “Wisdom from World Religions” was funded by a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The opinions expressed in this course and website are those of Kenneth Rose and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.