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69 STUDENTS JOIN THE CAODAI COURSE IN 2016

69 STUDENTS JOIN THE CAODAI COURSE IN 2016

Updated 2016-01-04 03:32:34

(Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan 01, 2016 – By Associate Prof. Mohammad Jahangir Alam)

The BA in World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh aims to develop students' knowledge and critical understanding of the different aspects of religions and to cultivate intellectual skills such as the ability to evaluate different interpretations of the faiths and facts on the basis of historical, sociological, psychological, anthropological, philosophical, and theological approaches. As religion has been part of human experience from the earliest traces of human existence, this honors degree aims to ensure a developed understanding of the relationship between religion and the different stages of human civilizations down to the modern period. Cao Dai religion, being an important part of religious history included in the early twentieth century, has also been crucial in the field of academic study of religion at different universities of the world. The University of Dhaka, for example, took this initiative first in 2004 with two research projects on Dao Cao Dai while two M Phil researchers named Mr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam and Mr. Md. Shaikh Farid produced wonderful dissertations on two different topics and they were awarded degree in 2009. Subsequently, the Department of World Religions and Culture introduced a regular course on Dao Cao Dai entitled The Cao Dai Religious Tradition since the academic session 2005-2006 on. Students take this course in the BA Honors 4th Year 7th semester. The fresh batch of BA honors in World Religions and Culture is to start class on Jan 03, 2016.

Statistics of Cao Dai Course

WRC H 404: The Cao Dai Religious Tradition

Sessions	Enrollment		Total	Year	Passed	Percentage
Sessions	Male	Female	Total	Year	Passed	Percentage
2005-2006			35	2009	35	100%
2006-2007	00	00	00	2010	00	00
2007-2008	27	15	42	2011	42	100%
2008-2009	00	00	00	2012	00	00
2009-2010	35	17	52	2013	52	100%
2010-2011	29	17	46	2014	46	100%
2011-2012	29	18	47	2015	47	100%
2012-2013	38	31	69	2016	Class to be started on Jan 03, 2016