RELG 220 - Religion and Transnational Feminism

Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU

This course examines issues of gender and religion as they intersect with global political discourses about women’s rights and competing definitions of agency. The study of global religions has been transformed in important ways by encounters with postcolonial and feminist scholarship; similarly, the persistent interest in religious forms of life have shaped how scholars think about gender, sexuality, and feminism in transnational contexts. In this course, we will explore how these dialogues between feminism, postcolonial studies, and religious studies may inform and transform our understandings of categories like “women” and “religion.”

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: D. Schultz

Cross List Information: GSFS 220