EXPLORING RELIGION AND SEXUALITY

RELIGST 103

Course Description

An introductory examination of "what religion is" via investigation of how religious traditions imagine, interrogate, and regulate sexuality using several approaches in the discipline of religious studies. Focuses, although not exclusively, on the religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Greeks, Romans, Rabbinic Jews, and early Christians) and also considers the (re)construction of ideas and practices over time and contexts.

Prerequisties

None

Satisfies

POLISCI/RELIGST 433

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.04

-6.43% from Historical

Completion Rate

91.67%

-4.73% from Historical

A Rate

17.71%

-26.38% from Historical

Class Size

-1.03% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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RELIGST 200

Topics in religious studies in the humanities at an introductory level.

TOPICS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES - HUMANITIES

RELIGST 400

Topics may include religion in specific societies or regions; religion in the arts; contemporary themes in religion.

RELIGION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

RELIGST 101

Foundational and thematic approaches in the academic study of religion applied across global religious systems.

RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

CLASSICS/HISTORY/RELIGST 517

Ancient religions in their political, social and cultural contexts; topics include ritual, literary and artistic representations, religious persecutions, and/or modern approaches to the study of ancient religions. Chronological and geographical focus will vary between Greece, Rome, Judaea and Egypt.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES COLLOQUIUM

RELIGST 420

Explores why and how religious studies matters as a helpful interpretative field across a variety of topics of interdisciplinary interest and societal concern.

EXPLORING RELIGION AND SEXUALITY

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