RELS 3206 is also offered in Spring 2024
RELS 3206 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | RELS 3206 Section 001: Sex, Murder, and Bodily Discharges: Purity and Pollution in the Ancient World (66314)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
ANTH 3206 Section 001
CNRC 3206 Section 001
JWST 3206 Section 001
MEST 3206 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 302
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- "Dirt is dangerous," Mary Douglas declared more than 50 years ago in her groundbreaking study, "Purity and Danger." Douglas's ideas have been influential in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies and provide a framework for us to analyze how people in antiquity conceptualized ideas of purity, pollution, ritual sacrifice, sacred spaces, bodily leakages, and the liminal stages of life and death. We'll delve into Douglas's theory in light of ancient examples with a special focus on ancient Israelite texts (the Tanakh or Old Testament) as well as ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern building inscriptions, specialist manuals, and rituals. Through this evidence, we'll gain profound insight into the ancient notions of "sacred/clean" (purity) and the "unclean/profane" (pollution).
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66314/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 October 2019
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2024 Religious Studies Classes