Course: RS 350. Religion, Sex, and the Body (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. This course examines the intersection of religion, sexuality, and gender and its unsettling effects on dominant forms of religious practice and embodiment. Through the lens of gender and queer theories, students will learn how a focus on sexuality and the body can blur the lines between the usual binaries of human/divine, infinite/finite, and male/female and reveals the complexity of human religious practice. Topics may include divine desire, purity culture, religious sexual celibacy, and the body in creation myths. Available for General Education, Area 3B Humanities. (W.I.)
GE: Area 3B - Humanities GE: UD - Upper Divison