Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Gender, Sexualities and Religion
School	Phil, Theology and Religion
Department	Theology and Religion
Module Code	09 36089
Module Lead	Amy Daughton
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
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Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-20 hours Seminar-10 hours Guided independent study-170 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module explores the complicated and often heated relationship between LGBTQ movements, feminist movements and religion/spirituality. It investigates how social and political constructions of gender and sexuality are challenged, both by those who attempt to reform religious traditions from within and those who break away to invent new forms of spirituality. The focus will typically be on particular texts from particular religious traditions from the last fifty years. Topics include power, authority, experience, community, minorities. The module is usually divided into three textual blocs, enabling comparisons between perspectives across religious traditions, regions, and languages. Cannot normally be taken with LM Gender, Sexualities and Religion .
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Identify and assess the key issues at stake in contemporary debates about religion and sexuality and/or religion and gender; Analyse and apply critically relevant primary source material to issues discussed in assessments; Engage critically with diverse feminist and LGBTQ perspectives and critiques of religions, spiritualities and religious communities; Critically consider the implications for the practices of the communities of interpretation.
Assessment	36089-01 : 2250 word Essay 1 : Coursework (50%) 36089-02 : 2250 word Essay 2 : Coursework (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 2 x 2,250 word Essay (50% each). Reassessment: Resubmission of failed component, if this results in failure of the module as a whole.
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