REL251

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Women, Sex & Western Religion

Religious Studies Undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences

Subject code

REL

Course Number

251

Course Long Title

Women, Sex & Western Religion

Course Description

Consideration of a range of women's roles in Western religions. Examination of tension between women's subordination and liberation in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Sources include Christian and Hebrew bibles, church fathers and mothers, new views of women's history and feminist analysis of religion, and contemporary goddess spirituality.

Academic Level

Undergraduate

Department(s)

Religious Studies

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Course Type (Attributes)

DD Dominance & Difference (DD), HP Humanities Philosophy (HP), Crit. Power & Inequality (CPI), Info & Media Lit Adv (IMLA)

Credit Type

Institutional

Instructional Method Name

Lecture