Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION (ENRICHED VERSION)

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries - particulary Hindu and Muslim - focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have benn willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both SWGS/WGST 240 and SWGS/WGST 340. Cross-list: ASIA 340, Equivalency: SWGS 240.