WGS.266 Womanhood, Gender, and Religion

HASS-H
Units: 3-0-9
T/R 1:00-2:30PM

Examine how religious traditions, theologies, and practices help produce and reproduce conceptions of womanhood and gendered bodies. Analyze where/how religious traditions inform and direct shifting conceptions of gender in contemporary world. Study religion and gender from top-down views through scripture, religious structures, theological debates, and myths of cosmological and human origins. Analyze gendered lived experiences of religion including sexuality, menstruation, spirit possession, religious laws, and embodied expressions of faith. Explore questions of religious leadership, queering religion, sites of worship, and afterlife. Introductory study on following religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Western secularism, and Indigenous spiritual and religious practices. Assessments include creative writing project, ethnographic interview, and book review.

Hafsa Arain