Graduate Courses
Queer Liberation Theologies - HRRS 8420
Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
What does “liberation” mean to queer individuals and communities? How do Christian traditions worldwide relate to queer issues and queer believers? For the last twenty years queer theologians and communities have been developing contextual theologies in order to challenge and critique the ingrained heteronormativity in theological thought, spiritual practices, and institutional governance. Drawing from an interdisciplinary perspective, the course aims to examine and explore the development of queer theologies in the specific contexts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The focus of the course is intentionally non-US centered in order to offer future ministers, scholars, and activists tools to collaborate and interact with experiences, key topics and thinkers within the complex and yet fascinating world of queer liberation theologies, thus, enriching their worldview and praxis glocally.
Will be offered: Spring 2015
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Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
What does “liberation” mean to queer individuals and communities? How do Christian traditions worldwide relate to queer issues and queer believers? For the last twenty years queer theologians and communities have been developing contextual theologies in order to challenge and critique the ingrained heteronormativity in theological thought, spiritual practices, and institutional governance. Drawing from an interdisciplinary perspective, the course aims to examine and explore the development of queer theologies in the specific contexts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The focus of the course is intentionally non-US centered in order to offer future ministers, scholars, and activists tools to collaborate and interact with experiences, key topics and thinkers within the complex and yet fascinating world of queer liberation theologies, thus, enriching their worldview and praxis glocally.
Will be offered: Spring 2015
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Promised Lands and Immigrants - RSHR 8427
Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
This online course focuses on the cases of Latina/o immigrants in the United States and Japan in relation to their experiences of faith, ethnicity and gender. The approach is interdisciplinary as we draw from several fields for the analysis of the class topics. The goal of the course is to provide grounds for students to acquire tools for understanding the different realities of immigrants. Issues of faith, race/ethnicity, gender and migration are constantly connected to pastoral reflection throughout the course, especially since our world is increasingly becoming multicultural, multiethnic and multi-religious.
Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
Will be offered in: Fall 2015
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Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
This online course focuses on the cases of Latina/o immigrants in the United States and Japan in relation to their experiences of faith, ethnicity and gender. The approach is interdisciplinary as we draw from several fields for the analysis of the class topics. The goal of the course is to provide grounds for students to acquire tools for understanding the different realities of immigrants. Issues of faith, race/ethnicity, gender and migration are constantly connected to pastoral reflection throughout the course, especially since our world is increasingly becoming multicultural, multiethnic and multi-religious.
Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
Will be offered in: Fall 2015
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Queer Studies from a Multireligious Perspective - HRRS-8421
Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
In an increasingly changing and globalized world, the intersection of religious and queer studies is vital for understanding the construction of identities. This course is designed to introduce the students to the place given to gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, the sexual division of labor and gender role expectations within world religions’ theo(ideo)/logical discourses. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach students are expected to develop a self-critical perspective on the way that sacred texts and dogmatic corpus influence the lives and spiritual practices of queer individuals and communities. Together we explore the mutual constitution of queerness and subjectivity of religious experiences and their social and political implications towards the deconstruction of stereotypes, power dynamics, and marginalization.
Offered: Fall 2013
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Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
In an increasingly changing and globalized world, the intersection of religious and queer studies is vital for understanding the construction of identities. This course is designed to introduce the students to the place given to gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, the sexual division of labor and gender role expectations within world religions’ theo(ideo)/logical discourses. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach students are expected to develop a self-critical perspective on the way that sacred texts and dogmatic corpus influence the lives and spiritual practices of queer individuals and communities. Together we explore the mutual constitution of queerness and subjectivity of religious experiences and their social and political implications towards the deconstruction of stereotypes, power dynamics, and marginalization.
Offered: Fall 2013
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Introduction to Queer Theory and Theologies - SSC710
St Stephen's College, University of Alberta, Canada
In an increasingly changing and glocalized world, queer individuals attest not only to shifting economic and political policies that affect their sexualities, lives and bodies, but also to the ways identities themselves are constantly (re)negotiated and constituted. Through the disruption of hetero-normative dictums, Queer theory enlightens the fostering of categories of gender identities which are multiple and constantly changing in order to reflect the multiple realities that individuals and communities face in our ever-evolving world. Rooted in Queer theory, Queer theologies analyze not only the dogmas accepted by institutional religions but also investigate the background of these dogmas in order to demonstrate their assumptions on gender and sexuality. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach, the goal of this course is to provide grounds for the students to acquire tools for understanding the different realities addressed by queer theory and theologies. Thus, the course explores questions of identity, gender and faith meaning-making mechanisms in Asian/Asian-American queer contexts in order to give the students a global perspective and diverse queer theological trends in the 21st century.
Offered: Fall 2013
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St Stephen's College, University of Alberta, Canada
In an increasingly changing and glocalized world, queer individuals attest not only to shifting economic and political policies that affect their sexualities, lives and bodies, but also to the ways identities themselves are constantly (re)negotiated and constituted. Through the disruption of hetero-normative dictums, Queer theory enlightens the fostering of categories of gender identities which are multiple and constantly changing in order to reflect the multiple realities that individuals and communities face in our ever-evolving world. Rooted in Queer theory, Queer theologies analyze not only the dogmas accepted by institutional religions but also investigate the background of these dogmas in order to demonstrate their assumptions on gender and sexuality. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach, the goal of this course is to provide grounds for the students to acquire tools for understanding the different realities addressed by queer theory and theologies. Thus, the course explores questions of identity, gender and faith meaning-making mechanisms in Asian/Asian-American queer contexts in order to give the students a global perspective and diverse queer theological trends in the 21st century.
Offered: Fall 2013
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