RELG 365 - Seminar: Religion and the Body

Next Offered: 2008-09
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR

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. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.