Course Catalog - 2004-2005

     

WGST 580 - SEX, SANCTITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS

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Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
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. ***** Also offered as RELI 580. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal, Parsons.