PHRE 3600 - Gender and Sexuality

Hours: 3
Explores the status and roles that women have played and continue to play in the religions of the world and to historically reconstruct their unrecorded roles. Major texts are examined in an attempt to recover the lost female voices of the great religious traditions: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, pagan, ancient, African and other indigenous. A polymethodic, interdisciplinary and multitraditional focus in which the horizons and perspectives of women’s status, role and image in society are expanded. In grappling with the many questions raised, discovering implications for understanding oneself, whether female or male.
Notes: Eligible to be taken as pass/fail.

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PHRE 3600 - Gender and Sexuality