RELG 271 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - The Beauty Myth, Sexualization, Sexual Abuse

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jonathan Waind

Document Summary

M/w 16:05 - 17:25 adams auditorium. Office hours: tuesday 10:00am-12:00pm, thursday 10:00am-12:00pm, or by appointment. Religion is often hailed as the source of transcendent moral visions of sexuality and denounced as the root of damaging and dysfunctional sexual cultures. This course examines how evolving dimensions of religious life and discourse have been critical to modern understandings and experiences of sexual fulfillment and transgression. It explores how modern conflicts over sexuality have played out in light of religious communities, their traditions and underlying doctrines, as well as tensions that arise in light of various versions of secularity. The course also surveys various contemporary social issues that are inflected by religion such as polygamy, sexual abuse, marriage, sex work, and pornography. Learning outcomes: become conversant in contemporary academic and public discourses on sexual morality and develop skills for engaging in both, gain literacy in various perspectives on sexual ethics, both religious and philosophical.