Nov 27, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin
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REL 308 - Women and Gender in Western Religion

Credits: 3

Survey of women and gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, examining the ways these are portrayed in the sacred and other foundational texts of the religions; the historical religious attitudes toward and regulation of women’s and gender roles in the family, education, work, and religious leadership; and recent efforts by women to reevaluate sacred texts, religious history, and theology and to address issues of faith and practice, with particular emphasis on spirituality, sexuality, religious law, women as religious leaders, and new women-oriented spirituality.

Also Listed as: WGS 308  



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