Browse through the courses below to explore courses that will fulfill certain degree requirements in the Religious Studies program.
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Not all of the courses below will necessarily be offered in any given year.
AP/RLST 3510 6.00 Religion, Gender and Korean Culture
This course explores the interactions of religion and gender from the traditional to the modern period in Korea, and relates this material to the general process of cultural development. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Multiple
AP/RLST 3518 6.00 Feminist Approaches to Religion
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 ...
AP/RLST 3519 6.00 Contemporary Women's Rituals
Women have been creating their own significant rituals both inside and outside established religious movements for centuries. Understanding the nature of women's rituals allows us to comprehend more fully women's relationship to humanity and to ...
AP/RLST 3557 6.00 Superstition, Religion, and Sexuality
This course explores the intersection of religion and superstition from ancient times to the present. It analyzes issues of gender, power and sexuality through the study of goddesses, witches and the current fascination with vampires ...
AP/RLST 3560 3.00 Bad Girls In the Bible I
The Bible offers archetypal figures for Western art, music and film as well as literature. This course will analyze women in the Hebrew Bible with a focus on sexuality, seduction, murder and mayhem. Beginning with ...
AP/RLST 3561 3.00 Bad Girls In the Bible II
The Bible offers archetypal figures for Western art, music and film as well as literature. This course will analyze women in the New Testament with a focus on sexuality, seduction, murder and mayhem. From the ...
AP/RLST 3580 6.00 Gender and Islamophobia
This interdisciplinary course examines historical and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia. We explore both the ways those understood as Muslim have been gendered and how Islamophobia produces particularly gendered anti-Muslim racism. Each class will consist of ...
AP/RLST 3609 3.00 Women and Religion: Sex, Spirituality, and Feminine Power
This course uses sociological theories on religion to study the main issues, gains and struggles faced by women in religious traditions around the world. Students study women in religion at the macro and micro level ...
AP/RLST 3814 6.00 Gendering Islam
This course examines the representation and the construction of the gendered roles of “Muslim Woman” and “Muslim Man” in different Islamic societies. Interdisciplinary in approach, the course exposes the students to a variety of Muslim ...
AP/RLST 3819 3.00 Outsiders Inside Religion
Religion plays an important role in inculcating and perpetuating societal norms and values. However, that is only part of the story. Many members of marginalized groups have also found within religion a space in which ...
AP/RLST 3856 3.00 Women and The Holocaust
Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences in experience and ways of coping and remembering. Close readings ...
AP/RLST 3891 6.00 Gender, Religion and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This course analyzes culturally-rooted practices and ideological and political factors that justify or rationalize the inequitable treatment of women and children and sexual or religious minorities, with special attention to the legitimizing role of religion ...
AP/RLST 4656 3.00 Women in Islam: Status in the Quran, Prophetic Traditions and Islamic Law
Examines the status, roles, and rights of Muslim women in the Quran, the Prophetic traditions, and the diverse Islamic laws. It explores the development of different schools of laws in diverse societies and examines the ...
AP/RLST 4750 3.00 Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Life
This course offers an exploration of distinctive Jewish approaches to questions of gender, sexuality, and the body, as formulated in their historical, religious, ethical and social dimensions. While we begin our journey with Biblical and ...
AP/RLST 4755 3.00 Gender and Contemporary Religious Movements
This course explores the relationship between gender and religion through the examination of contemporary religious movements such as men's and women's spirituality movements, new religious movements, LGBTQ movements, and fundamentalist movements. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Multiple
AP/RLST 4808 6.00 Sex & Violence in the Hebrew Bible
This course attempts a nuanced reading of texts dealing with sexuality and/or violence in the Hebrew Bible. The discussion focuses both on a contextual and on a contemporaneous reading of these texts. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: ...
AP/RLST 4816 3.00 Women in Islamic Literature
This interdisciplinary course focuses on the representations of women in modern-day literary, scholarly, and visual “texts,” produced by both men and women in Muslim-majority countries and their diasporas in the West. It covers a wide ...