RELG 333/ WOST 333: WOMEN AND RELIGION
Professor: Stephanie Mitchem
tel: 777-3627
email: mitchesy@sc.edu
Office: Rutledge 326
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generic syllabus
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Course overview:
This course examines, from women’s perspectives, their experiences in a variety of religious traditions. It examines the relationship between religious definitions of women and their social status, analyzes the causes of women’s subordination in some religious traditions, compares the values of such traditions with those values affirmed in religious traditions primarily shaped by women, and presents feminists’ and womanists’ critical theories relating to dogmas, traditions, and ethics.
Learning objectives:
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
Identify historical strands that construct contemporary women’s roles in organized religion;
Analyze theological statements about women across particular traditions; and
Explore formal and informal religious traditions shaped by women.
Required Texts:
Mary Pat Fisher, Women in Religion, New York : Pearson Longman 2007
Karen M Morin, Jeanne Kay, Women, Religion, & Space : global perspectives on gender and faith, Guelke Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press 2007
Maura O'Neill, Mending a Torn World : women in interreligious dialogue, Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books 2007
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: a Western religious history, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 2005
Assignments and Grading:
(Note the writing and reading sections above for grading concerns.)
Attendance: Beyond three absences, overall grade for the class significantly lowered. Regular tardiness will also result in a lowered grade.
Oral reports: 30 points
Research paper/final: 40 points
Midterm exam: 30 points
(A=100-91; B=90-81; C=80-71; D=70-60; F=59 and lower)
Description of assignments:
Class Schedule and assignments will be posted on Blackboard
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