Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description The purpose of this module is to examine a wide variety of sources that are relevant to the study of both gender and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world (ca. 200 BCE-500 CE). While our primary focus will be on the lives of women in the three religious spheres of traditional Greek and Roman religion (i.e., “paganism”), Judaism, and Christianity, we will also examine ancient constructions of masculinity and femininity. We will thus attempt to reconstruct what we can know about the lives of ancient women in and affiliated with “religious” contexts. This with the help of some of the excellent research on the subject produced in the past couple of decades from the fields of classics, history, religious studies, and gender studies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. demonstrate broad understanding of what can be said about the lives of women and the construction of gender across various strata of the ancient Mediterranean World 2. be able to employ a variety of theoretical approaches from the disciplines of history, literature, religious studies, masculinity studies, and gender studies 3. Describe the fundamental features of the various late ancient religious traditions (paganism; Judaism; Christianity) and their relation to one another 4. Problematize concepts and categories such as religion, gender, women, Jew, Christian, pagan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
IntroductionWhy study gender and religion? What is the Ancient Mediterranean World? Late Antiquity?Defining TermsJew, Christian, paganWomen in Ancient JudaismWomen in “pagan” religionsWomen in the early Jesus MovementReligion in daily lifeFemale Religious “Others”Female Martyrs and ProphetsTeachers, Philosophers, and TheologiansConstructions of Masculinity in Late Antique religious traditionsAsceticismWomen in Rabbinic and Patristic Literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Resources 0, Website, Forham University, 0, sourcebook, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/greekrel2.asp, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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