ST Religion and Gender Studies: a Workshop 5op, lv. 2025-2026
- Credits:
- 5 ECTS credits
- Location:
- Joensuu
- Continuous learning category:
- Theology and philosophy
- Teaching format:
- Distance teaching, Blended teaching
- Price:
- 100 € (VAT 0%)
The course examines a variety of topics regarding religion and gender studies. Topics of the workshops vary each year. During the course students and teachers engage together in both historical and contemporary material. Students are familiarized with research literature on the topic in workshops arranged around intriguing themes.
Mode of completion:
- Participation in the lectures and workshops (18 h), and learning assignments, OR
- Learning assignment, independent work 135 h OR
- Book exam, independent work 135 h
Material:
For book exam, circa 1000 pages of works listed below as agreed with the examiner beforehand.
- Coakley, Sarah: The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God (2015). 160 p.
- Utriainen, Terhi & Päivi Salmesvuori (eds.): Finnish Women Making Religion. Between Ancestors and Angels. 293 p.
- Werner, Y. M. 2021. Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Leuven UP.
- Burrus, Virginia: ‘Begotten, Not Made’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000). 240 p.
- Penner, Todd C., and Caroline Vander Stichele: Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (2007).
- FitzGerald, K. K.: Orthodox women speak: Discerning the “signs of the times” (1999).
- Vassiliadis, P., Papageorgiou, N., Kasselourē-Chatzēvasileiadē, H. V., & Adamtziloglou, E.: Deaconesses, the ordination of women and orthodox theology (2017).
- Frost, Carrie Fisher (ed): The Reception of the Holy and Great Council: reflections of Orthodox Christian Women (2018)
- Kupari, Helena & Vuola, Elina (eds): Orthodox Christianity and gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice (2020)
- Thomas, Gabrielle &Narinkaya, Elena (eds): Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: explorations in theology and practice (2020)
- Loughlin, Gerard: Alien Sex: the Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004). 306 p.
Registration for Individual Courses
The fee for individual courses is €20 per ECTS credit. These prices are valid for the academic year 2025–2026.
Registration for courses starting in the autumn semester begins on 8 August 2025 at 9:00 AM. After this date, registration remains open until 16 June 2026.
The right to study is valid until 30 July 2026.
Lecture Implementation: More detailed information will be published in August 2026.
Schedule: Lectures are held during the autumn semester. Other methods of completion are available throughout the academic year.