Class Notes for 07-100
Religion and Culture: 3 Worldviews
University of Windsor
Fall Semester, 2006
Dr. B. L. Whitney, B.A., Ph.D.

Last revised: Dec 12 , 2006

FINAL EXAM PREPARATION:
The exam will have about 85 multiple choice questions with a time limit of 90 minutes. There are 2 pages on Theism (UND ch 2), 2 pages on Naturalism (UND ch 4 and 5, and the web docs assigned: see below), 1 page on UND ch 1 and Overheads 30, 32, 36-38), and 3 pages on New Age compared with the other two worldviews (UNA ch 1, 2, 3, 8 ) and the web documents assigned (see below):

Items from the Introduction, Parts One and Two: The Theistic and Naturalistic Worldviews
*Sire book, UND, chapter 1 (definition of worldviews; why we need to study worldviews)
*Sire book, UND, chapter, 2 (10 worldview aspects of Theism)
*Sire book, UND, chapter 4 (10 worldview aspects of Naturalism)
*Sire book, UND chapter 5 (assessment of Naturalism: ethics, knowing, free will)
*Web document: Naturalistic spirituality
*Web document: Theism vs Naturalism
*Overheads: 30, 32 (stats about ethics); 36 (stats about "God"); 37+38 (the need to study worldviews)

Items fom Part Three of the course: The New Age Worldview
*Groothuis book, UNA, chapter 1, 2 (10 Vorldview aspects and assessments)
*Web document: Worldview chart (Theism vs New Age Worldviews)
*Groothuis book, UNA, chapter 8 (New Age vs Christian Theistic Worldviews: pgs 162-64; 165-70; 171-72)
*Groothuis book, UNA, chapter 3 (New Age Alternative Health Care Techniques)
*Web document: Alternative Healing Techniques; Therapeudic Touch (supplement to UNA ch 3)
*Web document: The Occult 1; Occult 2