Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saints, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationship to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. Offered with additional work as RELI 580. ***** Also offered as WGST 470. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal; Parsons