L57 RelPol 215
Performing Religion, Ritualizing Gender
Spring 2017, T/Th 1:00–2:30PM
This class introduces key academic approaches to “ritual,” “practice,” and “performance.”
WUCRSL
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Postdoctoral Fellow
This class will introduce you to key academic approaches to “ritual,” “practice,” and “performance,” and will ask whether these distinctions are important or arbitrary. Ritual studies (based in religious studies) also happens to center around the very same questions that gave birth to gender and queer studies (is gender a performance?), thus a parallel examination of ritual and performance studies necessarily brings religious identity into conversation with broader questions of identity (gender, race, class).