The relationship between faith and reason; The right to believe; The nature of religious experience; The cosmological and teleological arguments for the existence of god; Whether one can know that ‘god exists’ without arguments; The problem of evil; Miracles; Religious pluralism.
Course References:
M. Peterson, Reason And Religious Belief: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Religion, Oxford University Press, 1998.^$^M. Peterson, Philosophy Of Religion: Selected Readings, Oxford University Press, 1998.^$^M. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, Chicago University Press, 1958.^$^W. C. Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, Harper & Row Publishers, 1978.^$^N. Smart, The Phenomenon of Religion, Macmillan, 1973.