Exercises: "Sex and Secularism" - Gender Equality as Basis for Western Superiority (auch als ASQ Religionskompetenz) - Details

Exercises: "Sex and Secularism" - Gender Equality as Basis for Western Superiority (auch als ASQ Religionskompetenz) - Details

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Course name Exercises: "Sex and Secularism" - Gender Equality as Basis for Western Superiority (auch als ASQ Religionskompetenz)
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 39
Home institute Theologische Fakultät
Courses type Exercises in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 09.04.2026 09:00 - 12:00, Room: (SemR A)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch

Rooms and times

(SemR A)
Thursday: 09:00 - 12:00, weekly (7x)
No room preference
Thursday: 09:00 - 12:00, weekly

Module assignments

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Together we will read Joan Wallach Scott's book "Sex and Secularism". In seven sessions, we will discuss one chapter from the book each time. In doing so, we will explore the question on how the emancipatory effect of secularism on women has been taken for granted. We will discuss Scott's findings which she summarizes as follows: "First, the notion that equality between the sexes is inherent to the logic of secularism is false; second, this false historical asser¬tion has been used to justify claims of white, Western, and Christian racial and religious superiority in the present as well as the past; and third, it has functioned to distract attention from a persistent set of difficulties related to differences of sex, which Western and non¬ Western, Christian and non¬ Christian nations share, despite the different ways in which they have ad¬dressed those difficulties. Gender inequality is not simply the by¬ product of the emergence of modern Western nations, char-acterized by the separation between the public and the private, the political and the religious; rather, that inequality is at its very heart. And secularism is the discourse that has served to account for this fact."
The course will consist of only 7 double sessions of 180 minutes each, on Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The dates are: 9 April, 16 April, 23 April, 30 April, 11 June, 18 June, 25 June.
The location is: Seminar Room B.
The course will be held in English and can either be credited as seminar or as exercise. It is open to interested students of all degree/study programmes. No specific knowledge or skills are required. Scott's book is provided as a file.
This course is eligible for credit in the gender*bildet study program (Gender Studies Certificate). For more information, please visit this link:
https://www.rektorin.uni-halle.de/stabsstellen/vielfalt-chancengleichheit/gender_bildet/angebote_studierende/zertifikat/