HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL
Women’s Studies in Religion Program
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(Ph) 617 495 5705
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/wsrp/
The Women's Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School
serves as an international research center for research in Women’s
Studies in Religion. Its purpose is to encourage and guide the development
of scholarship on religion, gender, and culture. The Program supports
significant publishable women’s studies research projects on
topics related to the history and function of gender in the symbolization
of religious traditions, the institutionalization of roles in religious
communities, and the interaction between religion and the personal,
social, and cultural condition of women. The Program fosters critical
inquiry into the interaction between religion and gender, and sponsors
research and teaching in feminist theology, biblical studies, ethics,
and women’s history, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship
on women throughout the world’s religions.
WSRP Administration:
Ann Braude, Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program
Nancy Birne, Events Coordinator and Assistant to the Associate Dean
Margie Herrick, Major Gifts Officer
Susan Sherwin, Associate Dean for Development and Public Affairs
Martha Kay Nelson, Administrative Assistant
Vicki Tshikala, Staff Assistant
Please contact the WSRP for information on the current Advisory Committee
members.
2001-2002
Research Associates and Visiting Faculty:
Each year, the Program appoints five scholars to serve as Visiting Lecturers
and Research Associates in Women’s Studies in Religion. Each scholar
pursues a research project advancing the understanding of religion and gender,
and teaches a course related to his or her research project. The following
scholars will serve as Research Associates and Visiting Lecturers during the
2001-02 academic year:
Joan Branham, Ph.D. (Providence College).
Project: Sacred Space as Gendered Space: Women, Blood, and Sacrifice in
Late Antiquity.
Anne Lerner, Ph.D. (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Project: Visions of Eve: Contemporary and Classical Interpretations of
Eve in Jewish Literature.
Vijaya Nagarajan,
Ph.D. (University of San Francisco).
Project: Hosting the Divine: The Kolam in Tamil Nadu.
Michelene Pesantubbee,
Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder).
Project: Ohoyo Osh Chisba: The Legacy of Corn Woman. Colorado Scholar.
Emilie Townes,
Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary).
Project: Dismantling Evil: Black Women's Religious Moral Wisdom in the Analysis
and Critique of the Cultural Production of Evil.
Courses of Primary Interest to the
Study of Gender
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/registrar/applications/Courses/cat_year.cfm
Area One: Scripture and Interpretation
1242.*Introduction to Methods of Biblical Interpretation (Elisabeth Schussler
Fiorenza)
1503.*Gospel Stories of Women (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
1504. Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
1882.*New Testament Ethics and Rhetoric: Seminar (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
1896. Sacred Space and Gendered Space: Seminar (Joan Branham)
1951.*Ancient Christian Women: Prophets, Martyrs, Theologians (Karen L. King)
Area Two: Christianity and Culture
2222.*Holiness, Patience, and Suffering in Christian Latin Literature (Beverly
M. Kienzle)
2325. The Religious History of American Women (Ann D. Braude)
2328. Women and Religion in Contemporary America (Ann D. Braude)
2436.*Feminist Theology as Systematics: A Critical Survey (Sarah A. Coakley)
2439. Themes in Christian “Spirituality”: Theories of Prayer,
Self, and Gender (Sarah Coakley)
2557.*Gospel Stories of Women (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2558. Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2562.*Issues in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview (Leila Ahmed)
2564.*Feminism, Women, and Religion (Leila Ahmed)
2565. Islam in America and Issues of Women and Gender: Seminar (Leila Ahmed)
2642.*God as Trinity (Sarah A. Coakley)
2647.*Philosophy, “Religious Experience,” and Feminist Critique
(Sarah A. Coakley)
2687.*Feminism, Women, and Religion (Leila Ahmed)
2689.*Feminist Theory and Theology (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2690. Doctoral Colloquium in Religion, Gender, and Culture (Elisabeth Schussler
Fiorenza)
2691. Rhetoric, Gender, and Power: Seminar (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2730.*New Testament Ethics (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2841. New Models for Social Cohesion in Divided Society (Swanee Hunt)
Area Three: Religions of the World
3604.*Issues in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview (Leila Ahmed)
3605.*Feminism, Women, and Religion (Leila Ahmed)
3806. Native American Women and Religious Colonization: Seminar (Michelene
Pesantubbee)
3807. Women, Ritual, and Ecology: Seminar (Vijaya Nagarajan)
3881. Reflections of Eve (Anne Lerner)
3895. Myths and Rituals of Creation and Procreation: Seminar (Sarah Caldwell)
3899. Islam in America and Issues of Women and Gender: Seminar (Leila Ahmed)
Courses
of Related Interest to the Study of Gender
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/registrar/applications/Courses/cat_year.cfm
Area One: Scripture and Interpretation
1459. Circumcision and Jewish Identity (Shaye Cohen)
1512. The Gospel of Mark (Ellen B. Aitken)
1514.*Multicultural Biblical Criticism: Conference Course (Elisabeth
Schussler Fiorenza)
1543.*Ancient Christianity in the City of Rome: History, Literature,
and Daily Life (Ellen B. Aitken)
1801.*Biblical Theology (Paul D. Hanson)
1802.*Joseph and Esther: Seminar (Jon D. Levenson)
Area Two: Christianity and Culture
2226. Reading Christian Latin Sources: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle
Ages (Beverly M. Kienzle)
2235.*Mysticism and Literature: Seminar (Luis M. Giron-Negron)
2302.*Radical Movements in Modern America (David D. Hall)
2303. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s (David
D. Hall)
2304. Religion in America from c. 1865 to the 1970s (Robert Orsi)
2433.*Modern Theology II: Modern Theology and the Ends of Modernity (David
C. Lamberth)
2444.*Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche: Prophets of Postmodern Thought (Kimerer
LaMothe)
2462. Freedom and the Navigation of Desire (Courtney Bickel Lamberth)
2471.*Biblical Theology (Paul D. Hanson)
2480. Thinking about Thinking (Harvey Cox, Alan Dershowitz, Stephen Gould)
2495.*Pentecostalism (Harvey G. Cox)
2526. Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in the U.S. (Richard Parker)
2539. Christianity and Democracy (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Ronald Theimann,
Cornel West)
2556.*Multicultural Biblical Criticism: Conference Course (Elisabeth Schussler
Fiorenza)
2581.*Introduction to Patristic Theology: The Cappadocians (Nicholas P. Constas)
2582.*Theology of the Icon (Nicholas P. Contas)
2583.*Christ in Early Christian Thought (Nicholas P. Constas)
2593.*Eros Crucified: A Christian Symposium on Desire: Seminar (Nicholas P.
Constas)
2633. Theology and Power: Seminar (Francis Schussler Fiorenza)
2643. Christology: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary (Sarah A. Coakley)
2644.*Rationality, Relativism, and Theology (Francis Schussler Fiorenza)
2697. Religion and Society Colloquium (David Little)
2712. Moralists: Advice to Sons and Daughters: Seminar (Ralph B. Potter)
2741.*Human Community and Human Rights (Arthur Dyck)
2845. The Political Economy of Misery: Seminar (Emilie M. Townes)
2876. The Ethics of Friendship: Seminar (Ralph B. Potter)
2904.*Introduction to Preaching (Claudia A. Highbaugh, Thomas Mikelson)
2914. Organizing: People, Power, and Change (Marshall Louis Ganz)
2929.*Pastoral Care for Persons Affected by HIV/AIDS (Jon Fuller)
2953. The Thought of Erik H. Erikson as Psychoanalyst and Religious Thinker
(Dorothy A. Austin)
Area III: Religions of the World
3644. Who is a Jew? (Shaye Cohen)
3692. Afro-Atlantic Religions (J. Lorand Matory)
3851. Buddhism in America (Christopher S. Queen)
Language Courses
4045. Advanced Modern Hebrew: Contemporary Israeli Culture (Miri Kubovy)
M.Div. and Th.D. Required Courses
4599. Common Doctor of Theology Seminar (Paul D. Hanson)
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