RELG 271 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - The Beauty Myth, Sexualization, Sexual Abuse
12 Oct 2018
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RELG 271
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
RELG 271: Sexual Ethics
Winter 2018
M/W – 16:05 - 17:25 – Adams Auditorium
Instructor:
Dr. Jon Waind
Room 014
Birks Building, 3520 University St.
Office hours: Tuesday 10:00am-12:00pm, Thursday 10:00am-12:00pm, or by
appointment.
Teaching Assistants:
Matilda Perks, [email protected]
Lucie Robathan, [email protected]
Ali Smears, [email protected]
Kevin Walker, kevin.walk[email protected]
Office hours: by appointment
Description:
Religion and sexuality have been strange bedfellows. 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.
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RELG 271: Sexual Ethics
Winter 2018
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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.
• Improved grasp of the complex patterns of interplay between religion and various
aspects of human sexuality.
• Equipped to identify and critically reflect on controversies over sexual ethics situated at
the intersection of religion and public policy.
• Better understand and become more articulate at explaining their own moral stance on
issues related to human sexuality.
• Develop skills, specifically in blogging, to prepare them for participation in the digital
humanities.
Pedagogical Method:
The course uses a combination of lectures, discussions and Learning Cells. As a rule, the lectures
will be closely related to the assigned readings. Typical lectures will set aside time for questions
and discussion. Some classes will be more exclusively devoted to class discussion and exchange
on particular problems or issues.
Electronic Components of the Course:
1. MyCourses: All important course information will be communicated through the
MyCourses site for RELG 271. The course site will contain materials and links to
electronic versions of required and recommended readings as well as other relevant
resources. Please monitor the MyCourses site for any announcements or updates.
2. Blog site: Much of the written work for this course will be completed on the McGill
course blogging site: https://blogs.mcgill.ca/wp-login.php. Please visit this site and
register as soon as you are instructed to do so. Guidelines for registering on the blog
site and accessing it will be provided at the beginning of the semester in class and on
MyCourses.
Texts:
Unless informed otherwise by the course instructor, required and recommended readings are
posted as PDF files to a ‘eadigs folde o MCouses.
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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.
