RELG 365 - Seminar: Religion and the Body

3 HU, CD, WR

Second Semester. This seminar uses current theories about gender, sexuality, and religious experience as a lens for investigating how religion represents and regulates women’s and men’s bodies. Issues to be addressed include the body in pain, medieval Christian ascetisim, men’s spirituality and the masculinity of God, and views of the body in goddess religion and queer theology.

Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of the instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 15.
Ms. Kamitsuka

Credits: 3 hours