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What is the name of the theology courses, or whatever religious course, presented at school? Once, around 6 or 7 years ago, I ran across the word in the dictionary, but have never since and now I miss it.

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At the private religious school where I taught, the course was called Comparative Theology. It was a survey of the differences between major western and eastern religions, and also looked at the philosophical underpinnings of agnosticism and atheism.

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Catechism?   That was the word used for religious classes in the Roman Catholic church.

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Jackie" As I understand it, catechism is specific to Christian religions. Rafee was looking, I think, for a more generic term. Not sure there is a truly generic single term. I don't recall ever seeing "Dogma 101" in any course catalog.   🙂

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Heimhenge, that was just the first word that popped into my head.   Where I grew up, the local Catholic church had catechism classes for those students who attended public school and so didn't have religious instruction.   It's not really a common, every day word, so I thought I'd give it a go.

Dogma 101--could be interesting!   Don't know though.   I'm a bit of a skeptic.   *grin*

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