Critical Social Thought 349RE - Body/Gender in Religious Trad

Spring
2018
01
4.00
Susanne Mrozik
M 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
103108
Skinner Hall 212
smrozik@mtholyoke.edu
103109,103107,103108
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.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.