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REL 2204 - Sex, Gender, and Religion

Credits: 4
This course explores how gender and sexualities are constructed, practiced, and experienced in various religions and by different religious actors.  It examines how religion can be a means to subvert dominant gender paradigms as well as how it can silence and marginalize those who do not conform to them.

The course pays special attention to the role religion plays in the construction of identity and the creation and maintenance of cultural practices and norms.  It aims to help students advance their understanding of how gender functions in the organization of belief-systems through a close reading of primary sources.  The course will also compare historical interpretations of gender and sexuality and the lived experiences of religious people in the past and today.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding



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