PS-507 RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES
PS-507 RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES
(a) The course is intended to familiarise the students with some of the leading religions and ideologies. In the first part of the course, beliefs and practices, rites of passage, worldviews and brief histories of Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are discussed. The approach adopted is first to understand these religions on their own terms and then relate them to Islam for the purpose of comparison.
In the second part of the course some of the leading ideologies of the world such as Humanism, Socialism, Communism, Capitalism and Atheism are taken into account. These ideologies have played havoc with the destiny of half the population of the globe at one point of time or another; they have posited themselves as the great rivals of organised religions, hence an analytical and disinterested study of these ideologies. The two-fold method of understanding these ideologies on their own terms and relating them with the ideology of Pakistan is also observed here.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. Chaudhri Ghulam Rasul, Mazahib-i-Alam Ka Taqabuli Mutalia, (Lahore: Ilmi Kutub Khana, 1989).
2. Dr. M. Hamidullah, Introduction to Islam, 4th ed. (Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1974).
3. Khalifa Abdul Hakim, Islam and Communism, 5th ed. (Lahore: Institution of Islamic Culture, 1976).
4. Maxime Rodinson, Islam and Capitalism, (Middlesex: England: Penguin Books, 1980).
5. Mazheruddin Siddiqi, Marxism or Islam, (Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1980).
6. Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind, Third ed. (London: Collins Clear - Type Press, 1973).
