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Dr Rick Weiss's book Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion and Community in South India
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) was launched on Thursday 19th March 2009 at Victoria University of Wellington.

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RELI108: The World's Religions
This course introduces students to the major religious traditions, the relationships between them, and analysis of the role of religion in the contemporary world. Themes will include: religion and terrorism after 9/11, globalisation and religion, religion and identity, religion and the brain, religion and science, and the future of religion.

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RELI 106 –Prayer, Meditation, Trance and Ecstasy: A Study of the Techniques of Spiritual Transformation
This course explores the ways in which spiritual practices alter consciousness. We study contemporary world cultures and see the influence of rituals, bodily postures, drugs and music. Our focus is on the spiritual understandings that come not through doctrines, but rather through ways of living.

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