REL 104 - Unprotected Texts: The Bible, Gender and Sexuality in Western and Non-Western Religious Traditions

This course will consider foundational ideas about bodies, sexuality, and gender in Bible and in other world religious traditions. Drawing upon each of their areas of expertise, Professor Brumberg-Kraus will highlight the formative roles of gender and sexual violence in ancient Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, and Professor Darling will focus on sexuality and bodies in an array of religions around the globe. Together their different emphases and different gendered points of views will complement one another so as to present the religious constructions of gendered bodies from a comparative, cross-cultural perspective.

Credits 1

Area
Humanities

Connection
21000

Division
Arts and Humanities

Foundation
Beyond the West

Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars