RELREL 234.001
Women and Religion

from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Professor
Merinda Simmons
simmo045@bama.ua.edu

Office: Manly 204
Office Phone: 348-9911
Office Hours: TBA
Class: MWF, 11:00-11:50
Course Number: 17438
Location: Manly 207

About Online Readings

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Description

This course takes on debates related to the topics of nature, the body, and ethics, and assumes that the ideas of women and religion are both historical, institutional constructions whose study allows scholars to track how differeing ideas of gender and identity are enacted in everyday life.

Syllabus

Spring 2009 Syllabus (PDF) TBA

Books (required)

Castelli, Eliz & Rodman, Rosamond
Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader
ISBN: 0312240309
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Satrapi, Marjane
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (paperback 2004)
ISBN: 037571457X
Publisher: Pantheon

Readings

To be announced