Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'Body and Gender in Religious Traditions' |
Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
Description: Do bodies matter in religious traditions? Whose bodies matter? How do they matter? By studying religious body ideals and practices, we examine the possibilities and problems different kinds of bodies have posed in religious traditions. Topics include religious diet, exercise, and dress; monasticism, celibacy, and sexuality; healing rituals, and slavery and violence. We pay special attention to contemporary challenges to problematic body ideals and practices coming from feminist, disability, postcolonial, queer, and trans theorists and activists. |
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
Susanne Mrozik   | 413-538-2721   | smrozik@mtholyoke.edu   |
Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024   | Seminar   | Thursday   | 01:30PM - 04:20PM   | SKNR - Skinner Hall   | 210   | Weekly |
Requisite Courses         | ||
Prereq: 8 credits in Religion, Gender Studies, or Critical Race and Political Economy. | Take previously   | Required   |
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Cross-listed Sections         |
RELIG-352-01 Body/Gender in Religious Trad   |
GNDST-333RT-01 Body/Gender in Religious Trad   |
Course Availability | ||||
Section status: Open     | Capacity: 18     | Enrollment: 17     | Available: 1     | Waitlist: 0 |
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Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
No book purchases are required/recommended for this class. |           |           |
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