Difficult Dialogues: Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Catalog description

This course provides a space for students to dialogue productively on historically contentious topics involving religious beliefs, gender and sexuality. Students develop thoughtfulness and engagement with beliefs that are rooted in different religious or secular humanist traditions outside of their individual experiences. During the course, students draw on perspectives from intellectual and religious history, cultural analysis of religions, and contemporary religious dialogue. Students search for understanding of others whose beliefs are rooted in different religious or secular humanist traditions. Students are asked to engage in disciplined, self-critical thinking. Students draw on methods and content from intellectual and religious history, the philosophy of religions, and contemporary religious dialogue.