FGSS 4290
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FGSS 4290
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
Drawing on feminist and queer theory and ethnographic studies of ritual and devotional practices around the world this course will consider the relationships among the social organization of sexuality, embodiment of gender, nationalisms and everyday forms of worship. In addition to investigating the norms of family, gender, sex and the nation embedded in dominant institutionalized forms of religion we will study such phenomena as ritual transgenderism, neo tantrism, theogamy (marriage to a deity), priestly celibacy and temple prostitution. The disciplinary and normalizing effects of religion as well as the possibilities of religiosity as a mode of social dissent will be explored through different ethnographic and fictional accounts of ritual and faithful practices in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
When Offered Fall.
Permission Note Not open to: first-year students.
Distribution Category (ETM-AS, GLC-AS)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4490, LGBT 4290, RELST 4240
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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