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Dec 21, 2024
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SO 213 - Goddesses and Ghosts: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian WorldsCredits: 4
Goddess figures are central to South Asian religions. This course introduces students to a variety of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses, their myths, iconography, representation, powers and roles, along with their worship in India, and their significance for the South Asian diaspora. Students explore several methodological controversies in the understanding of goddesses in their roles as divine mother, wife, lover, victim, and partner, and the gendered traumas that make goddesses into ghosts. This course considers the implications of the divine feminine for our understandings of contemporary female worlds.
Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Social and Psychological
Foundations Requirement(s):
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