Classes & discussions

Tarot classes at Triple Goddess Bookstore

With Dawne Botke-Coe, by appointment. Beginner and intermediate classes. $30/90min. Contact TGB for more information.

Pagan Chat Night at Triple Goddess Bookstore

Every other Tuesday from 6pm–8pm, led by Izzy and Devi. Free. Check our activities page for the next date. For more information, call TGB or visit http://witchvox.com/vn/vn_detail/dt_ev.html?a=usmi&id=51230.

MSU courses

MSU offers a wide variety of courses on just about everything. Below are some courses that may particularly interest you...

• REL 101, Exploring Religion — Religion and religions as historical phenomena. Non-textual and textual religions. Theories of the origins and functions of religion. Exemplary voices from various traditions examined in their historical and doctrinal settings.
• REL 230, Shamanism, Trance and Sacred Journeys — Shamanic practice in different cultural and religious contexts. Ecstatic, cosmological, and performative dimensions. Healing, sacred knowledge, spiritual journeys, sacred space, presence in world religions, patterns of pilgrimage, theoretical debates regarding shamanism.
• REL 275, Magic and Mysticism: Western Esoteric Traditions and Practices — Surveys the history of Western esoteric traditions in Europe, England and North America including alchemy, magic, Jewish and Christian mysticisms, and secret or semisecret groups like Freemasonry. Transdisciplinary investigation of religion, science, literature, art and history.
• REL 306, Native American Religions — Indigenous forms of spirituality among the Native American peoples. Materials from myth, ritual, ceremonial life, and art as ways of obtaining and sharing religious knowledge. Pervasive spiritual and cosmological themes.
• REL 315, Religion and Gender — The relationship between religion and gender viewed through foundational sacred texts and historical interpreters that define gender, sexuality, the body, the divine. Contemporary responses to the relationship between religion and gender through ritual, liturgy, new religious movements, and feminist theology.
• REL 340, Hinduism — Historical, philosophical and doctrinal development. Vedic Sacrifice, Upanishads, devotional Vashnavism, Yoga and meditation, Tantric and medieval forms, ritual and temple forms. Modern syncretism and interaction with Western world views.
• REL 360, African Religion: An Introduction — Variant forms of the religions of Africa. Indigenous African religions examined through their mythology, rituals, symbols, and social consequences. Islam and Christianity. Interaction between religion and politics.
• REL 470, Religious and Secular Cosmologies — Cosmological contents of religions. Religious questions raised by secular cosmologies. Perspectives from phenomenology and anthropology of religion.
• REL 471, The Ritual Process — Definitions of ritual. Aspects of ritual, such as repetitiveness and drama. Generic forms of ritual including passage rites, renewal rites, liminality, sacrifice, taboo, and divination. Experience of ritual and its power to inform and transform the participant.
• PHL 461, Metaphysics — Basic concepts employed in trying to understand the nature of things. Concepts include universals, particulars, things, kinds, properties, events, persons, change, causality, chance, existence, possibility, necessity, space, and time.