REL 331 - Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion

4.00 credits.

Traditionally, survey courses in the world’s religions focus on creedal tenets. A different picture of religion arises when we survey constructions of ethnicity and gender throughout global history. This course examines the relationship between these three discourses as categories of human meaning-making. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to consider a variety of case studies, and ask how we might better understand the analytical concept of “religion.”