Syllabus/achievement requirements

 

Gender and Religion: Theoretical Mappings (approx. 180 pp)

 

King, Ursula (1995) Introduction: Gender and the Study of Religion. In: Ursula King (ed.), Religion & Gender, 1-38. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Gross, Rita. (2009) A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of Religious Exploration. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Pages 1-123)

Cooey, Paula M. (1994) The Body and Gender. In: Paula M. Cooey, Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Analysis, 19-39. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Engaging Feminist Theology: Christianity (approx. 415 pp)

 

Gonzalez, M. A. (2007) Created in God’s Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology. New York: Orbis Books. (Whole book, approx. 200 pp)

Althaus-Reid, Marcella (2001) Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics. London: Routledge. (Whole book, approx. 200 pp)

Moxnes, Halvor (2004) Jesus in Gender Trouble. Crosscurrents 54(3): 31-46.

 

Engaging Feminist Theology: Islam (approx. 400 pp)

 

Wadud, Amina (1999) Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Whole book, approx. 100 pp)

Barlas, Asma (2002) “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an. Austin: University of Texas Press. (Whole book, approx. 250 pp)

Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq (2003) Sexuality, Diversity and Ethics in the Agenda of Progressive Muslims. In: Omid Safi (ed.), Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism, 190-234. Oxford: Oneworld.

De Sondy, Amanullah (2012) Exploring Islamic Masculinities through the Qur’anic Adam. In Stephen J. Hunt and Andrew K.T. Yip, The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality, 319-330. Farnham: Ashgate.

 

 

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