Anthropology as a field is concerned with understanding the human experience, while Theology focuses on God and the nature of religious belief. In contrast, Theological Anthropology brings these concerns together by exploring the human story in relationship with the Divine. We will take a comparative cross-cultural approach exploring key themes, including conceptions of self and community; understandings of sin and evil; human sexuality; disability; racism; human rights; and feminist theological anthropologies, among others. In this way, students will gain familiarity with the major concerns of Theological Anthropology while seeing how they are expressed across a variety of cultures.
- Lehrende/r: Sara Fretheim
Semester: SoSe 2020