Three Religions, One Sacred Place

In this module students will learn the basics of three major world religions - Islam, Judaism, and Christianity - and connect them to geography by seeing how each religion places significance on one particular geographic location.

While this has the potential for being a sensitive subject, great care has been taken in selecting readings and a focus for this module that avoids looking at the concept from a political perspective and instead looks at it as much a possible through the lens of primary source evidence (from the religious texts of each faith) and historical facts (what we know from archaeology and written history about what happened in this place).