Overview

Using feminist and interdisciplinary approaches, the course examines the gendered and power dimensions of religion, religiosity, and secularism. It offers students to engage in current debates about gender and religion and to explore women’s religious lives in Abrahamic religions. Because of the complex nature of gendered experiences, intersectionality is used as the primary analytical framework. The course discusses the ways in which religious women locate their religiosity, shape their lives, negotiate their agency. The course introduces students to current feminist scholarship in gender and religion through various case studies