WAPPP Guide to Gender-Related Courses

HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL 2002-2003

Programs and Course Titles

*courses marked by an asterisk will not be offered this academic year

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
Martha Kay Nelson, Administrative Assistant
Vicki Tshikala, Staff Assistant
Please contact the WSRP for information on the current Advisory Committee members.

2002-2003 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 2002-03 academic year:

Paola Bacchetta, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky).
Project: Hindu Nationalism and Gender.
Marie Griffith, Ph.D. (Princeton University).
Project: Born Again Bodies: American Christianity and Disciplines of the Flesh.
Kelly Pemberton, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley).
Project: Female Piety and Sainthood in South Asian Islam.
Brigid Sackey, Ph.D. (University of Ghana).
Project: Women in African Religious Movements in Ghana.
Elina Vuola, Ph.D. (University of Helsinki).
Project: Women, Religion, and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Latin America.

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
1434. Jewish Women in History, Politics, and Religion of Late Antiquity (Tal Ilan)
1503.*Gospel Stories of Women (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
1504. *Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
1802. *Joseph and Esther: Seminar (Jon D. Levinson)
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)
2262. The Spirit’s Voices: Holy Women in Medieval Christianity (Beverly M. Kienzle)
2325. *The Religious History of American Women (Ann D. Braude)
2328. *Women and Religion in Contemporary America (Ann D. Braude)
2379. Gender, Discipline, and the Body in American Religion and Culture (R. Mariei Griffith)
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)
2564. Feminism, Women, and Religion (Leila Ahmed)
2567. A Feminist Analysis of Religion and Modernity (Maria Jose Rosado-Nunes)
2579. Feminist Sociology of Religion (Maria Jose Rosado-Nunes)
2647. Philosophy, “Religious Experience,” and Feminist Critique (Sarah A. Coakley)
2686. Women’s Movements, Feminism, and Religion in Latin America (Elina Vuola)
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)
2712. *Moralists: Advice to Sons and Daughters: Seminar (Ralph B. Potter)
2957. Gender and Diversity: U.S. Latina Theologies (Daisy L. Machado)

Area Three: Religions of the World
3567. Readings in Tibetan: Medical and Monastic Writings (Janet Gyasto)
3604. Issues in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview (Leila Ahmed)
3605. Feminism, Women, and Religion (Leila Ahmed)
3801. Religion, Gender, and Political Conflict (Paola Bacchetta)
3809. Women’s Involvement in African Religious Movements: Seminar (Brigid Sackey)
3882. Gender, Piety, and Sainthood in Mystical Islam (Kelly Pemberton)
3900. Women Writing Religion (Leila Ahmed)
4324. Holiness, Patience, and Suffering in Christian Latin Literature (Beverly M. Kienxzle)

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
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)
1669. *Jewish Wisdom Literature (Jon D. Levinson)
1882. *New Testament Ethics and Rhetoric: Seminar (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)

Area Two: Christianity and Culture
2226. * Reading Christian Latin Sources: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages
(Beverly M. Kienzle)
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)
2309. The Catholic Sixties (Robert Orsi)
2310. *The Catholic Experience in the United States (Robert Orsi)
2318. *Lived Moralities in American History (Robert Orsi)
2433. *Modern Theology II: Modern Theology and the Ends of Modernity (David C. Lamberth)
2470. Biblical Theology (Hebrew Bible) (Paul D. Hanson)
2479. *Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology (Francis Schussler Fiorenza)
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)
2556. *Multicultural Biblical Criticism: Conference Course (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2581. Introduction to Patristic Theology: The Cappadocians (Nicholas P. Constas)
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)
2642. God as Trinity (Sarah A. Coakley)
2643. Christology: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary (Sarah A. Coakley)
2644. Rationality, Relativism, and Theology (Francis Schussler Fiorenza)
2730. *New Testament Ethics and Rhetoric (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
2850. *Ethics in Medieval Practice (Arthur Dyck and Judith Kinley)
2876. The Ethics of Friendship: Seminar (Ralph B. Potter)
2929. Pastoral Care for Persons Affected by HIV/AIDS (Jon Fuller)

Area III: Religions of the World
3647. *Circumcision and Jewish Identity (Shaye Cohen)
3815. *Emerging Topics in Greek Religion (Kimberley Patton)
3821. Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Kimberley Patton)
3851. *Buddhism in America (Christopher S. Queen)
3852. Buddhism and Social Change: Seminar (Christopher S. Queen)
3922. Christianity in India: Seminar (Anne E. Morius)
4321. *Reading Christian Latin Sources: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages (Beverly M. Kienzle)