RLST176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership

This course examines the transformative leadership visions, methods, and practices of internationally recognized religious and secular founders, innovators, and societal prophets. It analyzes their leadership styles, communication strategies, marketing techniques, psychological appeals, and how they kept their leadership styles and religious or secular visions grounded in the hopes and dreams of the masses. Each week we analyze one but occasionally two (for contrast) leaders like Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Bartolomé de las Casas, Theodor Herzl, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Chairman Mao, Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Dorothy Day, M.L.King, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Billy Graham, Rosemary Radford Reuther, Indira Gandhi, Muhammad Yunus, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: RLST176 CM

This course information is from the 2023-2024 Catalog. View this catalog.

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