AP/HUMA 3518 6.00

Feminist Approaches to Religion

This course foregrounds women's voices/stories and examines a wide range of feminist approaches to religion, including feminists who identify as practitioners of a tradition as well as those who do not. The main thread spinning through source materials is the power of women's voices/stories to bring women together to strengthen themselves and their communities, and to make change. In the last part of the 20th century in North America, an exciting re-membering of women's voices began to emerge, sparking growth in critical consciousness and in feminist theory/methods designed to uncover, critique, and challenge problems firmly embedded in dominant patriarchal traditions. Spaces opened up where women shared their stories and traditions, and discussed empowerment; where they helped each other consider ways to disrupt dominant discourse and revision their lives and their communities; where they re-claimed their spiritual power-inside and outside of the dominant traditions.
Course credit exclusion: AP/WMST 3518 6.00 (prior to Fall 2010).