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Using feminist and interdisciplinary approaches, the course examines the gendered and power dimensions of religion, religiosity, secularisation, and the experiences of those on the margins. It offers students to engage in current debates about gender and religion. Because of the complex nature of gendered experiences, the intersectionality lens provides useful analytical insight. The course also employsgender/feminist theoretical and analytical frameworks that explain the history, complexity and hierarchies of power in the religious institutions pertaining to the gendered experiences. The course discusses the ways in which religious women (Christian, Muslim, and Jewish) locate their religiosity, shape their lives, negotiate their agency. The case studies as a means of delving into the major concepts lying on the intersection of gender and religion as well as feminist theory and feminist theology allow discussing dilemmas and even dichotomy around identification of what religious women's agency is and what political and social ramifications on the women's lives are. |
