3.00 Credits
This course explores the complex involvement of women in the many religions of the world. Students will investigate textual and/or oral religious traditions regarding women and their places in the cosmos. Students will also explore texts written by women or practices devoted to or performed by women. The course will emphasize cultural and spiritual diversity in women's lives, as well as issues of religious empowerment, piety, leadership, scriptural interpretation, and theoretical questions involving gender, spirituality, the body, and social, ethnic, and racial differences.