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Subjects List :
#Ancient Near East
Treatment of their dead reveal religious beliefs of ANE.
Zoroaster: Ancient Religion in Esther’s Day Changes in Persian ideas about religion and gods.
#Judaism
Shaping Judaism: The complexity of human interaction and historical processes:
Judaism: the elect community, the Torah
Kettubah: Israelite Women’s 1st Century Marriage Contract
#Islam
Gender and Islam Intertwine in Complex Ways
Muhammad: Early years. Why success in converting Arabia to Islam and obstacles encountered.
#Background to the Early Church
Choice of New Testament texts: political and theological in nature.
Greek speaking Diaspora and early Christian success.
Early church’s greatest obstacle: Isis popularity
The way in which authority, maintenance and control of early Christianity were exercised
Choice of New Testament texts: political and theological in nature.
Electronic church broadcasting: Advantages and disadvantages
#Ancient Greece
Athenian women: The position of women in Athens : prescriptive and descriptive
Some pagan religions of ancient Greece: women and cult.
The Ancient Greeks and their gods.:observing religious concilitory rituals, they compete to win the god’s favour.
#Ancient Rome
Roman Familia: Roman women’s changing roles in home and society.
Roman male, “that of an aggressive dominator’
Isis: Roman Religion/ early church. Her domestic image of ideal wife and mother.
#Buddhism
Early Years of Siddharta Guatama, founder of Buddhism.
#Christianity, technology and science
Modern mass media religion: TV Evangelists
Sociological/political Approaches to religion (philosophy, anthropology,
psychology)
#Feminist scholarship
A social revolution: The rise of a feminist biblical hermeneutics.
Gender, marriage, and family: gender associated with marital relations and family.
Women’s Movement in the Past: Black feminism
