2023-2024 Catalog

RS 216 Religion and Sexuality

This course examines the often intimate connection between religion and sexuality.  Emphasis will be placed on the ways a variety of religious traditions have both imagined and constructed human sexuality, with special attention to creativity and reproduction, rites of passage, ritual behavior and sexual conduct, the sexual act(s), eroticism and the mystical path, sex and gender roles (especially marriage), and sexual orientation. The course will conclude with a consideration of a contemporary issue (e.g., abortion or same-sex marriage) that is at the intersection of religion and sexuality. 

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

Same as GSS 216

Prerequisite

WRIT 101 or WRIT 201