FALL 2014-15 – Religion 393: Theological Seminar
“Gender, Identity, Theology”
Instructor: David Booth
We will explore competing theories about gender and identity as challenges and opportunities for theology. Since the “second wave” of feminism, familiar understandings of gender roles and sexual identities have been challenged, and also defended, from a variety of perspectives. We will acquaint ourselves with literature about concepts like complementarity, essentialism, constructivism, and intersectionality. We will consider ways theologians have sometimes defended traditional gender roles. And we will consider ways theologians have taken more complicated understandings of gender and sexual identities as opportunities for new and deeper understandings of God.