Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

WGST 580 - SEX, SANCTITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS

Long Title: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: RELI 580, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: WGST 470.