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The Winter Madrasa/Beit Midrash: Gender and Sexuality in Islam, Judaism and Christianity
1-5 p.m. and 6:30-8 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 17-19, 2006 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20, 2006
Ghazala Anwar (SKSM), Benay Lappe (CJS), Mary Ann Tolbert (CLGS)
In this course we will read and explore the creation texts of the three traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, with an eye to alternative constructions of gender and sexuality. An integral part of the course will be close readings and partner study, employing a queer interfaith adaptation of the traditional pedagogy of the beit midrash and madrasa. We hope that this will be a step towards developing an interfaith hermeneutics of reconciliation and cooperation. All texts will be in English translation. This course is co-sponsored by Starr King School for the Ministry; The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry; The Islamic Task Force of the Graduate Theological Union; The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies; the School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; and SVARA: A Queer Yeshiva Dedicated to the Serious Study of Talmud. Starr King's work in multi-religious understanding is supported, in part, by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation
BSHR 2326
1.5 units
Fireside Room
Thomas Starr King: Unitarian Minister and Bridge-Builder
9 a.m.-12 p.m., January 23-27, 2006
Glenna Matthews
This course will enable students of Unitarian Universalist
history to grasp some key 19th Century issues through
an in-depth focus on one man. Thomas Starr King, 1824-1864,
was first ordained as a Universalist before becoming
a Unitarian clergyman. He pastored churches on both
coasts. He was close to people on opposite sides of
the controversy that erupted within Unitarianism over
the Transcendentalists. The son of a working-class father
(Thomas Farrington King had been a shoemaker before
his ordination as a Universalist minister), Starr King
would know people in elite circles in both Boston and
San Francisco in his maturity. His mother Susan Starr
was descended from German immigrant stock. Thus Starr
King bridged multiple divides. This course will explore
the social and intellectual context in which he lived,
the events of his too-brief life, and the nature of
his ideas in order to account for his accomplishments.
Students are responsible for reading “America’s God” by Mark Noll prior to this week, and for completing a research paper after the end of the week.
HS 4029
1.5 units
Limit: 15
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