RELS 4640 - Religion and Sexuality: The Problem of the Erotic

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: at least one course in Religious Studies, or consent of instructor.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Beginning with a reconstruction of ancient Greek and Roman sexual attitudes, the course examines how these attitudes and practices were inherited by, and changes by, later Jewish and Christian communities. After a study of the new medieval language of heresy and expulsion in Europe, the course turns to modern rehabilitations of Classical ideas in thinkers such as Freud and Foucault.