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$\"\"$ <\/a>Fall semester classes start this week, so I thought I\u2019d share the list of books that I\u2019m teaching and using with you.\u00a0 They are all pictured here.\u00a0 I\u2019m teaching three classes this fall, a normal load where I work<\/a>, that include contributions to our college\u2019s first year experience, gender and women\u2019s studies program, and religion department.<\/p>\n

My first year seminar is titled \u201cFood, Faith & Justice in Autobiographies,\u201d<\/strong> and part of the description could read like the opening of a bad joke:\u00a0 A Muslim, a Mormon, an Episcopalian, a Jew, and an Atheist walk into a bar \u2026.\u00a0 Well, at least their religious memoirs will be walking into my students lives this semester.\u00a0 Acts of Faith<\/a><\/em>, by Eboo Patel, is Illinois College\u2019s common text<\/a> for all first year students, and I decided to focus the whole semester on religious autobiographies that are united with some combination of food and faith.\u00a0 Food plays a prominent role in both Sara Miles\u2019 Take This Bread<\/a><\/em> and Elizabeth Ehrlich\u2019s Miriam\u2019s Kitchen<\/a><\/em>, and surprisingly (or not?) shows up at key moments for both Patel and Joanna Brooks in her Book of Mormon Girl<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Justice is a common concern for all of these authors, including Chris Stedman in Faitheist<\/a><\/em>, and his involvement with Patel\u2019s Interfaith Youth Core<\/a> and Harvard\u2019s humanist community<\/a> brings him into conversations about how we might all work better together toward a common good.\u00a0 To that end, students in this seminar will engage in a service-learning project connected to a local agency focused on food justice, to connect what they read to the community in which they live.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m teaching \u201cIntroduction to Gender and Women\u2019s Studies\u201d<\/strong> for the fifth time this fall, and use the combination textbook and anthology Women\u2019s Voices, Feminist Visions<\/a><\/em>, edited by Susan Shaw and Janet Lee.\u00a0 It\u2019s an ever-changing collection of history, terminology, classic and contemporary readings and resources in this diverse interdisciplinary field.\u00a0 I also use in that class Alice Walker\u2019s The Color Purple<\/a><\/em>, as a way to focus student engagement with the complex intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, spirituality, and other elements of human experience.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written more about why I love parts of that classic novel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>I\u2019m also teaching my \u201cContemporary Religious Issues\u201d<\/strong> seminar this fall with the focus topic \u201cSex & God.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 As I like to point out on the first day of class, it\u2019s not a lab course so don\u2019t get too excited.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0It is, though, centered around several hot topics in religion today:\u00a0 women\u2019s ordination (yes, still a contested topic) with John Wijngaards\u2019 The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church<\/a><\/em> and Sarah Sentilles\u2019 A Church of Her Own<\/a>, <\/em>which examines issues for women who ARE ordained, and discover that sexism isn\u2019t in fact defeated quite yet; then we talk about homosexuality with Daniel Helminiak\u2019s What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality<\/a><\/em> and Alex Sanchez\u2019s young adult novel The God Box<\/a><\/em> (along with several other online articles capturing some of the ongoing debate);\u00a0 and finally, we focus on contraception and abortion in several world religions via Daniel Maguire\u2019s Sacred Rights<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0I also plan to have students read more contemporary articles about the most recent religious and political debates centered around faith and reproductive justice, something I\u2019ve been thinking and writing much about in recent years.<\/p>\n

I commend all of these texts to you, and invite you to read along with us this fall.\u00a0 I promise there\u2019s much to learn and much to talk about!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"