This four-week seminar examines two of the most consequential modern Marian apparition traditions—Fátima (Portugal, 1917) and Garabandal (Spain, 1961–1965)—through a historical, religious-studies lens. Students engage primary sources (memoirs, episcopal statements, press accounts, Vatican documents), scholarly analyses, and selected documentaries. We will outline Catholic discernment procedures for alleged supernatural phenomena and attention is also given to the impact of these cases beyond Catholic communities—how they shape wider cultural beliefs about visions, prophecy, and the miraculous.
CourseBy Diana Heath
Armageddon, Antichrist, and Apocalypse Online Live Zoom Course Begins July 14, 2025 Co-taught with Christopher J. Moreland, PhD Candidate in Catholic History
CourseBy Diana Heath
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka
Before The Matrix, before 1984, before Brave New World, there were teachings and books about the reality of the world we live in and the possibility of transcending its brutal injustices. In this four-part course beginning June, 2025 instructor Diana Walsh Pasulka —author of American Cosmic and professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington—will be our guide through the original awakeners, or the “red pills” (as defined in the movie The Matrix) from the Western tradition.
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka
CourseBy Dr. D. W. Pasulka