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Apr 23, 2024
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2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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REL 338 - Sex and God: Jewish and Muslim Erotic Love PoetryThree Credits
Not Offered 2013-2014
An examination of the erotic love poetry penned by imams and rabbis of the 10th-13th centuries. We will explore the ways in which these pious standard-bearers of religion used sacred images and accounts from the Bible/Qur’an and exegetical traditions in their heteroerotic and homoerotic secular poems and what messages were thus embedded.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-Level Religious Studies Cornerstone Course .
Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
Course may be applied to the Middle Eastern Studies minor.
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