Description: Lecture, three hours. Examination of gender, religion, and social movements in Korea and Korean diaspora through interdisciplinary feminist and critical area studies approach. Use of postcolonial, anti-racist, and intersectional feminist lens to discuss Korea and Korean diaspora as site of inquiry and field of knowledge. Close examination of several contemporary political issues, focusing on salient political theologies and oppositional social movements mobilized by religious groups, and wide range of ideas, institutions, and practices that are animated by complex politics of gender, sexuality, and religion. Topics include Korean and transnational diasporic activism concerning war, imperialism, and militarism; anticommunism and xenophobia; pro-democracy movements and labor organizing; Catholic and Buddhist solidarity and sanctuary geographies; heteropatriarchy and urban megachurches; faith-based pacifism and conscientious objection to military conscription. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0