“Subtle Nuances and Connections:” Religion Major Jaret Glander Reflects on His Courses this Past Year

In our next post, current major Jaret Glander discusses the classes that have effected him the most this past year. 

My favorite religion class was Individuals and Morality with Dr. Kessler, where we read the book of Genesis over the semester and analyzed its literary qualities through class discussions. It was cool seeing all of the subtle nuances and connections between chapters, as well as the overarching themes that seemed to make sense of the human condition. My favorite book was Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani, which I read in my Buddhist Philosophy class with Professor John Cha (another class I really enjoyed). One of Nishitani’s goals in this book was solving the problem of nihilism through a Buddhist framework by removing all attachment—even attachment to nihilism.